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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Why are freelance prostitutes in Pattaya actively persecuted?
Dear readers,
I read on the Pattaya One website that 100 late-night freelancers (prostitutes who don't work in a bar) were recently arrested from the boulevard. And from my previous experiences in Pattaya, it turned out that they are not very approachable.
Are they punishable and to what extent is there active prosecution? Why are the police targeting them and not bar employees?
And importantly, are the buyers of their services punishable? Does this apply to all of Thailand?
With kind regards,
Tom
The law below still applies. You could read Section 6 in such a way that customers of prostitutes are also punishable. The rest of this law is mainly about giving the opportunity to prostitution, human trafficking, child prostitution and setting up organizations to combat this.
It is well known that the police and military profit heavily from the opportunity to prostitute. So why would they bother to close these establishments? And the 'freelancers' are arrested and released after paying a fine. Checkout!
PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF PROSTITUTION ACT BE 2539 (1996)
Section 5. Any person who, for the purpose of prostitution, solicits, induces, introduces herself or himself to, follows or importunes a person in a street, public place or any other place in an open and shameless manner or causes nuisance to the public , shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand Baht.
Section 6. Any person who associates with another person in a prostitution establishment for the purpose of prostitution of himself or herself or another person shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine not exceeding one thousand Baht or to both .
To associate can be translated as dealing with.
To associate with someone:
to be friendly with someone; to be acquainted with someone socially in a work setting.
Sex does not (yet) have to be involved.
The intention of paid sex seems sufficient.
It also says himself, her self, or ANY other person.
I don't think that applies to the customer, but to the madame who runs the brothel.
If it applied to the customer I would use THE other person.
Moreover, this article 6 only seems to apply to a brothel (in a prostitution establishment). (or maybe a massage parlor)
Dear Tom,
As made clear in the previous response, there is a law regarding prostitution. Why are the so-called freelancers being tackled and those who work a bar are not. Very simple: the freelancers do not pay a “tolerance fee” to the police. The bar owners do. It is then usually on the complaint of these bar owners that the freelancers are tackled every now and then. The bar owners pay and see part of their income (bar fee) lost to the freelancers. The police must demonstrate that they do something to justify their tolerance.
regards,
lung addie
Strictly speaking, a bar isn't doing anything wrong.
The ladies are companions to make the bar cozy.
If you want a night out with one of the ladies, it is obvious that you compensate the bar owner.
After all, the bar becomes less attractive.
What the customer does with the lady after they have left the bar is not the owner of the bar and is not his responsibility.
These freelancers offer their services in a place where tourists are regularly robbed by, yes, those same girls who are not always girls but kathoy.
There is also some control in the bars, the girls are known and there is (if all goes well) a regular doctor's check. They may then be less inclined to serve a foreigner a Mickey Finn in his hotel room and then make off with all his valuables.
Apart from the cheat money, it is mainly about the “good name” of Pattaya. Just like in Amsterdam the tendon rooms are tolerated, but behind the central station things were always swept clean.
Beach prostitutes are not the pure kind. Rather criminally inclined (good at rolling your wallet), drug addicted and often proceed to drug the customer in order to take all valuables with them.
If you follow pattaya one and hotnews pattaya daily news, you will have read about this. The police feel called upon to sweep pattaya beach clean.
After payment of 200 bath, they may go soliciting again. A prayer without end!!
If there really is prostitution in a bar, the police will also harass that bar, by checking for correct papers, age of staff and drugs. to chat comfortably.
In most cases = this is how it should be = the staff in the bar has a salary and is often insured against illness (SSO), so more reliable than on the street, but also more expensive.
Given the decrease in the bars where it is pleasant to chat, the influx to pattaya beach is high in the late / early hours. and therefore very dangerous!
The employees in the bars rarely cause incidents.
Unfortunately, this happens with some regularity among freelancers.
Of course you can also ask yourself why someone hangs out night after night on Beach Road to find a customer, usually a Cheap Charlie too, while others choose to chat with the potential customers in a bar, play a game to play, to lay a cue, to wrangle a lady potion, and to get some salary too.
Many freelancers are happy to go with clients they choose themselves for the price they set themselves. Working in a bar means that you have to be present from 18.00-3.00am, entertain customers, go with paying customers, score a minimum number of drinks, be shorted or long-timed as many times, etc. etc.
Any form of prostitution is strictly prohibited in Thailand.
All these ladies - gentlemen - hermaphroditic, were fined 200 Bath, and were allowed to dispose.
Hopefully this is clear.
Didit.
Tom,
The government wants to clear the name of Thailand from the bad image it has abroad because of the sex industry. The government is calling for the industry to be tackled, so what could be easier than to pluck the prostitutes off the beach paths with a show of force. They are taken to the police station and with the exception of a few who have to stay overnight, the rest after payment according to ability of 50 to 500 baht around midnight outside the police station.
The government can show that they are being dealt with, but the next few days it will be business as usual again.