Salinee Chumsuwan, director of the Office of Culture Monitoring at the Thai culture ministry, recently gave an interview to local media saying sex toys should not be legalized as there is no solid research supporting them. She said research from other countries cannot be used because (you’ll never guess) the context is different. That’s right. Thais are unique. Thai chauvinism is alive and well. She recommended that people who have urges should instead resort to meditation or sport. This was in the same week that the Thai language press reported on the arrest of a 16yo Thai schoolboy who was pimping his schoolboy mates out to Thai men

The full report is on Khaosod English – always a good source of information on Thai life – in a discussion about prostitution in Thailand. Many Forum members will doubtless argue (they’re as much in denial as the Thais) that prostitution doesn’t mean the same thing in Thailand as in the West. It must be so – they’re not the sort of people who engage with prostitutes, therefore the boys they pay can’t possibly be prostitutes

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