Pattaya Sex, Crime and Suicide Capital of Asia
Pattaya Thailand: The sex crime and suicide capital of Asia( 85kms south of Bangkok)
Hi how are you my name is John and am writing this to you to warn others of the risks in Pattaya and what goes on there.
I will give you a brief history of a friend on mine who was British and somehow although I never new got Australian citizenship committed suicide in Pattaya in May 2007, by jumping off a 7th floor condimium he had just purchased.
There is a graphic site but could not post.
Martin had lived in Thailand for about 10 years and bought and sold condominiums to pay his way. His hobbies, interests were cycling, buying and selling condimiums and chatting up boys from the age of 17-20 and sleeping with them. He told me when I visited him about 3 years ago he had slept with 500 boys over a 5 year period a feat in any ones estimation he was a bit of sex maniac. He didn't drink, smoke or keep bad company was intelligent and could play the drums very well, he served in the British Army as firstly in the boys army which probably saved his life as he had a very troubled up bringing. His mother was single and she once hit him with a knife which left a big scar on his head and he was conscious of this. He then served in Burma, Africa(he showed us the film Zulu were he was in uniform in the film), served in Hong Kong as a Provo Police officer, and in Ireland where he didn't like fighting the Irish and left the army and immigrated to Australia. I first meet Martin when I was 17 with my brother in Kings Cross where he worked at Franklins. We became good friends and went to clubs, he taught me to drive and I bought proof coins off him as he was a specialist in numismatics and we used to have a cup of tea occasionally and chat about various things. He worked in Security for 20 years mainly at Crown Street Womens Hospital which is now closed and was very good at his job.. He new a lot of people in Kings Cross and some undesirable one's who were Paedophile's that are now dead namely Johnny McClean,Lord Mayor of Wollongong was his nick name to name a few.
We had meet through Johnny McClean the infamous Murphy Brothers (Anita Coby Killers). These kids were victims of the paedophiles.
He slept with a boy who was 17 and this was a crime in NSW at the time and the law has now been changed the same for girls 16.
The NSW Wales government had a witch hunt on Paedophiles and the boy who now lived in Perth with his girlfriend and was a male prostitute at the time dobed him in. He panicked and tried to commit suicide by shooting himself and taking sleeping pills he failed. He went to hospital and to court was convicted and had to do 500 hrs community service he did this for Amnesty International diligently and then sold his property and went to live in Pattaya.
I think he stayed out of trouble in Pattaya as I meet one of his friends who owned a apartment complex, and when I was there he never took me to a club like the old days he dropped me off at a night club to find a woman and have a beer and enjoy the music.He was very fit for his age and was a fitness fanatic and would cycle everyday and did not own a car. His major fear was of being sick and he told me about when he had tests for HIV/AIDS and they were negative and he jumped for joy when he left the hospital. I hadn't seen him for about 3 years but believe from what I can gather he may have got AIDS as he never took pills which were found in his bag when he jumped.
Well 4 years later he falls from the condimium and dies.
I did a lot of research after I found out about this contacted the Australian and British Embassy and found out who his solicitor was and researched about Jumpers in Pattaya and Aids in Thailand.
From my research and going there I can tell you the following that Pattaya is the sex capital of Asia with a lot of associated problems like AIDS,a lot of STD, girls only get checked once every 3 months,drugs,prostitution for males and females and very dangerous for long term foreign residents as there are reports of a Jumper once a week in Pattaya. Why Jumping I don't know it is peculiar to there.
In Martins case it was not typical its was not a broken relationship because of his childhood he never entered into a relationship and never let a boy stay over night, did not take drugs,did not drink alcohol, he was well off with no financial problems, didn't gamble so what was it and the only thing I can come up with was he had got AIDS.
I don't believe he was pushed or slipped because he went to his solicitor and did his will the day before.
My research found that the testing in Thailand for aids is not accurate and is flawed based on world testing methods.
I believe he had got tested and had been told he had AIDS was on medication and got depressed and decided to end it all.
So what have we got a big sex industry for men and women alike, a lot of problems such as aids and std diseases.
And one farang foreigner jumping off a high rise building a week, and doesn't even look at crime in the region.
If we look at a year of jumpers we get 52 foreigners a year a pretty nasty figure, something is really wrong there and I don't know what it is..
I live in the Angeles Philippines and have never heard of a suicide or a lot of aids or std diseases as the girls get checked once a week and are registered to work ,the whole situation is a lower profile here when I was in Pattaya I was acousted for sex everywhere on the street, when I got a lift, when I went for a walk,and in the clubs by the bar girls.
In summary Pattaya is great if you go there for a few days and are single male, be aware of std and aids related diseases and is not suited to families and is dangerous for long term foreigners as depression and suicide are very high.
The only thing I can come up with is there mustn't be any clinics for depression or someone to ring or talk to if you have a problem. I can't also understand why there are so many suicides in so called Paradise.
You might say why bother he was a border line Paedophile and it was over a year ago and good ridens to bad rubbish.
That is not the point the issue here is what happened what were the causes and how can we save lives.
Hope this is of some value to help the foreigners living in Pattaya and those planning a trip there and that aids testing can be improved.
