Sex Museum The Green Lantern in Bangkok
Photo: Bangkok Post
In the Bangkok Post a nice article about The Green Lantern, a seemingly ordinary cafe near the Thong Lo BTS station in Bangkok.
What is special, however, is that it also houses a Museum of Sex, where an exhibition can be seen devoted to the history of eroticism and the sex industry in Thailand.
Car Collection
The collection consists of more than 500 objects, such as erotic pottery, paintings, visual art, some of which are hundreds of years old. Walk through the different rooms and admire the paintings of topless male and female warriors from the era of the Ayutthaya kingdom. Also interesting are the erotic sculptures of people in different positions, which villagers once used to beg for rain.
Also on display is a collection of pornographic literature, erotic images of cave paintings, amulets in the shape of a phallus and a display case with sex toys. This display case clearly states that sex toys are illegal in Thailand. However, the owner thought it appropriate to show them, because he thinks sex toys should simply be allowed.
Green Lantern
The green lantern is a deliberately chosen name. At the beginning of the twentieth century, attempts were made to regulate prostitution. Brothels had to be registered, pay taxes and the ladies present had to be registered and undergo periodic medical examinations. Those brothels then showed with a green lantern that they were working legally.
Finally
Read the whole article, in which the owner also speaks, in the Bangkok Post via the link: www.bangkokpost.com/
About this blogger
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Bert Gringhuis (1945), born and raised in Almelo in the beautiful Twente. Later lived for many years in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, working in export for various companies. I first came to Thailand in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the country. Been back many times since then and moved to Thailand after my (early) retirement as a widower. I have been living there for 22 years now with my somewhat younger Thai lady Poopae.
My first experiences in Thailand as a kind of newsletter sent to family, friends and acquaintances, which later appeared under the name Gringo on Thailandblog. Many, many articles followed those first stories and that has grown into an almost daily hobby.
In the Netherlands still an avid footballer and football referee, but the years are starting to tell and in Thailand still avid, but the pool billiards is really of inferior quality, ha ha!
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