The resort located in the east of Thailand has been branded the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah β the biblical kingdom infested with vice and sin. Yesterday, 11 foreign tourists were arrested along with 14 sex workers during a raid on an illegal orgy at a Pattaya hotel. Cops arrived to find people allegedly having group sex in the hotel room that was scattered with condoms, lubricant, sexual enhancement drugs and toys.
Many sex workers come from the impoverished northeast and see selling their bodies as a way out of poverty. Last year, News. Prostitution is illegal in Thailand but for decades lawmakers and police have turned a blind eye enabling the sex industry to thrive - until now. We want Thailand to be about quality tourism. We want the sex industry gone. What followed was months of late-night raids and mass arrests in brothels and clubs across Pattaya, with Western tourists among those nabbed by police.
While the crackdown settled things down for a while, residents said Pattaya was well and truly back to its old tricks β and may have become worse. The city has seen a spike in violent crime over the past 12 months, including brawls between tourists. His alleged attacker, American man Jose Manuel Polanco, claimed he attacked Mr Robb in self-defence after seeing the Australian strangle a sex worker.
Days later, a massive fight broke out on Walking Street between British tourists and men of Middle Eastern appearance. Earlier this month, German authorities raided 62 properties and arrested seven men they allege brought Thai sex workers to Germany on fake tourist visas.
British journalist Andrew Drummond, who specialises in crime in Thailand, said the other challenge to shutting down the sex trade was that it was a lucrative business for many facets of Pattaya society. It is said to benefit everyone from the sex workers, who often relied on earnings to support their families, to hotels, taxis, the mafia and, allegedly, the police. We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team?
