We are on the bus to a place where you can get kissed,
spanked, lap-danced, get a few hours with one or more of 27,000 prostitutes or,
you could even find a wife. That place is Pattaya Beach, Thailand.
Pattaya has the
world’s largest red light district and is considered Planet Earth’s unofficial
sex capital.
I’m about to spend a week there. Care to join me?
Pattaya, in Thailand, is considered the world's largest
unofficial sex capital- and it didn't get that title for a reason. According to
the Sun UK's Luke Williams, Human rights groups have branded Pattaya as a
“paedophile paradise”
'It has a reported 27,000 prostitutes, but is also where
some people go to find a wife. On arrival, I saw hundreds of usually extremely overweight older white
western men walk around with young Thai girlfriends.
It’s a city full of
white men, there one to every three Thai men.
There’s also white sand, luxury white condos, teeth
whitening dentists everywhere and make-up adverts promising to whiten Thai
girls skin.
Shop wise, take your pick from McDonald’s, Dollhouse A Go
Go, Just for Fun, Lucky Finger Massage, Angelwitch, Ladyboys R US, 7-11,
Starbucks, The Classroom, Sabai Massage, Sue’s Place (now repeat that 30 times,
slightly alter the names and that’s Pattaya for you).
At a bar called Kangaroo Korner, I chat to a man from
Melbourne, Australia, who says: “I prefer Thai women … I’ve been burned too
many times by women back home.”“I know it’s just about the money for them, I am
not looking for love.
When I question his motivations he replies: “Mate, you are
overthinking things — just enjoy yourself, relax, and have another drink with
me.”
The next day I head
to Pattaya Beach’s ‘strip’, where I meet a 50-year-old Australian guy
who met his first wife there 12 years ago. They had two kids and got divorced
three weeks before. Now he is engaged to a 23-year-old Thai woman he met ten
days ago.He tells me.
“Thai women they are subservient. Don’t get me wrong I don’t
like them being as subservient as they are … but they cook and clean, they
really look after you. I do like that… but now I’ve got this girl, we met ten
days ago, I can already tell it’s going to work. But you know my wife and
children hate me, even my friends think I am an a***hole. The way I look at it,
I only have 20 years left of living, I want to be able to enjoy my life.”
Next I head to the notorious Windmill venue. Thai women are
on the stage dressed tiny tartan skirts.
None are wearing underwear or bras and all are wearing high
heels.
The white men sit around the stage, laughing, guzzling beer:
hitting and poking them with bar-supplied, beer-branded, polystyrene-foam
sticks.'
'A naked young woman is staring at me with her unblinking
glass eye as she casually performs a sex act on herself in the nightclub’s
shower.
I ask a punter whether the city is doing anyone – men, sex
workers – any harm.'
He replies:
“Lots of Western guys are here for different reasons. If we
get a jealous Thai ex-lover, or if a woman here is connected to a gang, or
tries to kill you for your money — of course, that’s why you should never get
too involved. This place is just about stress relief, especially if you are a
divorcee like me.”
I ask about the prostitutes’ welfare.'
He replies:
“It works for them mate, trust me, they get a lot of money
out of this.”
The following night, I spot a sex worker who is begging.
She’s got a cut and bruise across a quarter of her face, but refuses to go to
the police.
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