Bangkok Post : Ending prostitution an uphill battle

Legally, prostitution is a vice to be suppressed. Practically, the authorities view it impossible for prostitution to be entirely eliminated. This ambiguity to prostitution reflected in conflicts between different laws. The 1960 Prostitution Act, for example, severely punishes sex workers with the aim of eliminating prostitution. The Entertainment Places Act, however, allows the setting up of prostitution-related businesses including massage parlours, go-go bars and nightclubs where sex trade routinely takes place.

The effort to get prostitutes out of Bangkok in 1953, as reported by the Bangkok Post, reflects the belief that zoning is the way to control the so-called “bad women” who are blamed as the sources of sexually transmitted diseases, notes Ms Naiyana, who is also part of the women’s rights movement to decriminalise prostitution.

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