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Before its establishment, Walking Street was primarily a roadway for Pattaya's fishing industry when it was a fishing village. In the 1960s and 1970s, the area switched to providing services for soldiers from the United States Armed Forces on rest and recuperation breaks in Pattaya, resulting in the development of hotels, bars and restaurants on Walking Street, which was then referred to as ...
Night bars in Pattaya. Women ("bargirls"), or men, in the case of gay bars, or transsexual ("kathoeys") are employed by the bars either as dancers (in the case of go-go bars) or simply as hostesses who will encourage customers to buy them drinks. Apart from these sorts of bars, there are a number of other sex trade venues.
Pattaya Beach lies parallel to the city centre, and runs about 2.7 km long from Pattaya Nuea (North) south along the coast to Pattaya Tai (South) which is the entrance to Walking Street. The beach, which used to be 35 m wide, suffers from erosion and in some places was reduced to a width of only two to three meters.
Chan Resort in Pattaya [22] Dragonfly Naturist Village outside of Pattaya is the largest naturist resort in Thailand and is a participating business of the American Association for Nude Recreation. [23] Lemon Tree Resort (closed) in Phuket; NF Camp (closed) in Phetchaburi [24] Oriental Beach Village on the island of Koh Kho Khao [25]
Bargirls often receive a commission on drinks bought by their customers, either a percentage [3] or a fixed amount added to the drink's price. This is frequently a bargirl's main source of income, [4] but other sources of income can include a salary, tips (often the main source of earnings), and a percentage of any bar fine.
Although the soldiers preferred women rather than young girls, the sex industry in Thailand developed faster than ever before. [6] There were five US bases in Thailand, each housing up to 50,000 troops. [1] Kathryn Farr makes clear that the correlation between the number of troops in Vietnam and the number of prostitutes in Thailand is of ...
Griffith Simmons Parlaman III (30 October 1958 – 23 November 2002), who often referred to himself as "Sean Parlaman", was a long-time college student and trafficking activist who, before his curious and unexpected death, sought to raise awareness regarding the trafficking and prostitution of children into Thailand.
The phrase go-go was adopted by bars in the 1960s in Tokyo, Japan.It gained a lesser reputation when it was abandoned by a majority of clubs and appropriated by bawdy burlesque and striptease establishments, which in turn became known as go-go bars and the women working there known as go-go dancers.