Thai sex symbols from the 60s and 70s

While the whole world marveled at the "naked" films of Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe and we saw the rise of Sylvia Kristel in the Netherlands, Thailand had its own sex symbols from the silver screen in the XNUMXs and XNUMXs.

From 1960 to 1975, when Thai films were in high demand, the role of women in film was in a state of flux. Thailand's “dao yuas,” loosely translated as sexy stars, shone on the silver screen. The dao yua reflected the social discussion about the increasing exploitation of female sexuality.

On screen, they were always the bad women. The immoral women of loose morals and warm passions, who seduced the otherwise virtuous man to cheat on his oh so chaste and decent wife. Outside of the film, these trailblazing women have been criticized as raunchy saboteurs of "traditional values."

Since then a few things have changed. The term dao yua for these naked-but-not-naked beauties slowly but surely disappeared. It became more and more naked until today, where straight porn leaves nothing to the imagination.

On the website of Coconuts Bangkok, the 10 most famous sex bombs from that time are nicely depicted: bangkok.coconuts.co

My favorite from the list is Kaenjai Meenakanit:

Her figure was considered the ideal for every woman with measurements 94 – 63 – 96 cm. She played the role of the jealous sexy woman in more than 100 movies. Despite this respectable number of films, she was virtually impeccable outside of it, was nicely married and was hardly a subject in the Thai tabloids of the time.