Thread: Sex worker support group pressures Thai government to decriminalise prostitution

A sex worker support group called The Empower Foundation is hoping to persuade the Thai government to decriminalise prostitution by seeking a 10,000 signature petition. The group, based in Chiang Mai, wants penalties for selling sex removed as it says the 1960 law harbors exploitation and corruption. Such a removal would require Thailand to withdraw the Anti-Prostitution Act which saw more than 24,000 people arrested under it by the Royal Thai Police just last year.The coordinator for the group, Thanta Laowilawanyakul, says police only go after the sex workers and not the employers, with those found breaking the law to be branded with a criminal record that makes it hard to leave the industry as finding legal work becomes an issue. Thanta says 80 percent of the women working in the sex industry are the primary breadwinners for the entire family.


“Sex workers are lawfully registered in Germany, Amsterdam and Singapore. Why not Thailand? The answer is no, because the government thinks it will ruin the country’s reputation. Meanwhile, Germany has over 700,000 prostitutes, yet the profession is not stigmatised.”
A researcher at Thammasat University also concluded that the Anti-Prostitution Act doesn’t work due to the large scale corruption of the Thai police. Such corruption allows prostitution to continue in the form of massage parlors, karaoke bars and clubs where such establishments can give a kickback to police and still make large profits. Such establishments, according to a Rangsit University criminology expert, reportedly give anywhere from 200,000 – 400,000 baht in bribe money to police to keep prostitution and human trafficking alive.

The numbers of illegal sex workers are staggering as Empower estimates that the country has almost 300,000 such workers, a number that is twice that of a UN report in 2014 due to what the group attributes to a failure to take into account the migrants and underage children in the business.


Empower is hoping its petition, which gained 10,000 signatures at the September 19 anti-government protestin Bangkok, will bring awareness to the issue that has historically been ignoredby the government. A spokesman for the Social Development and Human Security Ministry women’s affairs section says that it is reviewing the law and could put amendments on the table for next year.



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Yeah, it's all about appearances.

Originally Posted by Headworx

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Want to play pin the cock on the LB..

^Still all doable now you've woken up to that then?

“Sex workers are lawfully registered in Germany, Amsterdam and Singapore. Why not Thailand? The answer is no, because the government thinks it will ruin the country’s reputation.

Thanta says 80 percent of the women working in the sex industry are the primary breadwinners for the entire family.

Which consists of:

Parents with their hands out
Brothers with their hands out
Sundry other family members with their hands out
Children abandoned by fathers who won't pay any child support

...and often they all agree that the breadwinner works in a factory.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

They all look pretty vacuous to me; not a fully-functioning brain amongst them.

It has existed as long aa men have , and will as long as man not as pretty as me do. So either decriminalise it or assist those not as pretty as me. with face masks. Ohh wait....

Originally Posted by Latindancer

They all look pretty vacuous to me; not a fully-functioning brain amongst them.

Some of them look suspiciously male, too.