Establishing a zone for prostitution

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Pattaya councilman suggests zoning illegal prostitutes

By Pattaya Mail

February 19, 2022

Prostitution long has been illegal in Thailand and, if you asked some senior government officials in recent years, it doesn’t exist at all in Pattaya. But a city councilman now has suggested that hookers on Beach Road be “organized” into a confined zone.

Maybe Boonanan Pattanasin, the head of the Pattaya Business & Tourism Association, can be forgiven for talking about such a taboo subject as the prostitution that, outside Pattaya, the city long has been famous/infamous for. After all, Feb. 18 was his first meeting as a newly appointed Pattaya City Councilman.

Boonanan is concerned about Pattaya’s image for newly arriving tourists. He thinks seeing Beach Road sprinkled end-to-end with streetwalkers – as it has been for decades – looks tawdry. Perhaps, he had the audacity to suggest – the prostitutes should be confined to their own zone, out of view of those millions of families, children and faithful men who tourism officials believe are coming to Pattaya soon.

Of course, establishing a zone for prostitution, while acknowledging reality, would give a stamp of approval to an illegal activity. In addition, Pattaya authorities wouldn’t be able to refill their coffers by sweeping up, fining and releasing the streetwalkers each month.

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