Patong Retailers Offered Sex to Tourists, Meeting Told

**StrontiumDog** · 07-07-2011, 12:34 PM

Patong Retailers Offered Sex to Tourists, Meeting Told - Phuket Wan

Patong Retailers Offered Sex to Tourists, Meeting Told

By Chutima Sidasathian
Thursday, July 7, 2011

PHUKET: Anonymous allegations were made yesterday about sex for sale in the basement retail area of Patong's leading shopping mall.

Management of the Jungceylon mall, which rents the area to outsider retailers, have called for a full report on the allegations from the shopkeepers in the 'That's Siam' section, a popular souvenir-hunting destination for Phuket tourists.

Other anonymous allegations were made as senior officials gathered to discuss complaints made to the Damrungtam office, Phuket's equivalent of a Eurpoean-style Ombusdsman.

An unsigned letter alleged that two policemen, who were named in the letter, took a cut from the sale of sex in 'That's Siam.' The officers, stationed at Kathu, allowed the prostitutes from Laos, Burma and Vietnam to operate by gathering customers at 'That's Siam.'

Vic Governor Somkiet Sangkaosutthriak, chairing the meeting at Patong tessaban council, said the anonymous claims needed to be treated with scepticicism until they were proved or disproved.

Another allegation involved a ''sex for sale'' stall that had allegedly been set up in a soi running between Patong's beach road and Rat-U-Tit-200 Pi Road, where tourists were able to negotiate to buy female prostitutes.

All allegations would be investigated, Vice Givernor Somkiet said.

Phuket Labor Office Director Noppadon Ploy-Audee told the meeting that five Vietnamese women had been arrested for prostitution last week. They had been on Phuket on tourist visas, he said.

**The Bold Rodney** · 07-07-2011, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

An unsigned letter alleged that two policemen, who were named in the letter, took a cut from the sale of sex in 'That's Siam.' The officers, stationed at Kathu, allowed the prostitutes from Laos, Burma and Vietnam to operate by gathering customers at 'That's Siam.'

This is news?

Hardly surprisng here in the land of smiles...must be running out of things to write about.

**BaitongBoy** · 07-07-2011, 12:48 PM

^ No, it's called advertising...

**harrybarracuda** · 07-07-2011, 01:17 PM

Hey, thanks for the tips lads.

**Thormaturge** · 07-07-2011, 02:07 PM

Looks like a serious case of human trafficking to me. Someone had better rescue these ladies.

sabaii sabaii · 07-07-2011, 02:26 PM

^

**good2bhappy** · 07-07-2011, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Looks like a serious case of human trafficking to me. Someone had better rescue these ladies.

The cops already have

**drawp** · 07-07-2011, 02:42 PM

So only foreign ladies working there huh? I find that extremely hard to believe.

**WilliamBlake** · 07-07-2011, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by The Bold Rodney

This is news? Hardly surprisng here in the land of smiles...must be running out of things to write about.

Yeah, they really should have stories about 'My New Arse Blaster' and 'Amusing Pics Ripped From The Web' instead...

**WilliamBlake** · 07-07-2011, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

allowed the prostitutes from Laos, Burma and Vietnam to operate by gathering customers at 'That's Siam.'

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

it's called advertising...

False advertising, if you think about it...

**Thormaturge** · 07-07-2011, 04:03 PM

^
If I visit a bar in Thailand I am not surprised if I am propositioned and I think nothing of it, but there have been times when I have been approached, even pestered, in regular retaurants, and that really is irritating. Even more so than people smoking.

**Travelmate** · 07-07-2011, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

^
If I visit a bar in Thailand I am not surprised if I am propositioned and I think nothing of it, but there have been times when I have been approached, even pestered, in regular retaurants, and that really is irritating. Even more so than people smoking.

You must be dining in some cheap ass regular restaurants to be pestered.

**BaitongBoy** · 07-07-2011, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by WilliamBlake

False advertising, if you think about it...

You got me there, William...

**DroversDog** · 07-07-2011, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

^
If I visit a bar in Thailand I am not surprised if I am propositioned and I think nothing of it, but there have been times when I have been approached, even pestered, in regular retaurants, and that really is irritating. Even more so than people smoking.

You must be dining in some cheap ass regular restaurants to be pestered.

He may be just a real hansum man.
Or he looks to have a bulging wallet in his pocket

**BaitongBoy** · 07-07-2011, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by drawp

So only foreign ladies working there huh? I find that extremely hard to believe.

No...not so hard...the BIB say it is so...
Have to protect the Thai image...

**Thormaturge** · 07-07-2011, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

^
If I visit a bar in Thailand I am not surprised if I am propositioned and I think nothing of it, but there have been times when I have been approached, even pestered, in regular retaurants, and that really is irritating. Even more so than people smoking.

You must be dining in some cheap ass regular restaurants to be pestered.

This used to happen a few years ago when I lived in Rangsit where there was less choice and "working girls" would tour around restaurants looking for customers. In Bangkok I presume this crowd just hang around the bars.

**Thormaturge** · 07-07-2011, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by DroversDog

He may be just a real hansum man.
Or he looks to have a bulging wallet in his pocket

...just the only Farang in the restaurant at times.

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