Hypocrisy

Thailand (and Pattaya to some extent) is attempting some sort of major moral cleanup effort in order to draw more tourists who are not primarily interested in visiting gogo bars. Pattaya seems especially focused on drawing in more busloads of Chineese and Korean tourists.

Across the street from Bob's is a large 3-story building. There are always 4 or 5 big tourist busses parked outside, Chinese tourists filing in and out. As soon as one group of 200 or 300 tourists leaves, another one arrives... three or four shifts per night.

What goes on in this building? It's a fuck show... one of half a dozen around the city. Surprise: Chinese toursists are coming to Pattaya see people screw each other. Now, unlike the farangs who are actually coming to screw, just watching is apparently a government-approved activity based on the ever-present police traffic guard in the parking lot helping those big busses in and out of Pattaya South Road's traffic.

I don't know which is funnier: That the Thai government thinks that they can convince tourists that their country isn't one giant brothel, while guiding those same tourists by the hand to ranchy full-on sex shows, or the fact that those Chinese tourists we farangs thought seemed like such uptight folks are actually just as much interested in (and supportive of) Thailand's sex industry as we are.