Thai Sex Industry Jump the Shark Moment: British Run Upcountry Orgy Resorts

Briton faces jail over Thai sex resort

By JAYNE ATHERTON - Thursday, March 15, 2007

A Briton who set up a swingers club in rural Thailand faces jail for promoting sex tourism.

Anthony Craig is under investigation for charging guests £100 a night for sex with unlimited partners, including girls aged 18 to 25 and transsexual 'ladyboys'.

The 57-year-old says on his website that all his sex workers are anxious to meet foreigners and 'sh*g like rabbits'.

Guests are picked up discreetly from Udon Thani airport and taken to Resort Caroline in the remote Nong Saeng district, five miles from the nearest village.

Mr Craig, who with Thai wife Lampan, 31, is on £4,600 bail, says in his promotional literature: 'I have helped village girls find fun and rich western boyfriends and husbands.

'My hedonistic business is aimed at soft-play couples and shy single men. It started off as a nudist resort and my guests sort of changed things. My ethos is live and let live.'

The former builder, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, adds that he only allows people over 18 to take part in the orgies and he never joins in.

'I make more friends than enemies but my enemies are the unseen bigots that condemn my way of life because of their myopic outlook,' he says.

About 6,000 swingers, mainly from Britain, are thought to have visited the resort since it opened four years ago. Its gatehouse is manned by Mr Craig's Thai mother-in-law.

Police chief Teerasak Krinponsa said: 'These swingers and this resort are giving Thailand a bad name.'

Get the police chief's quote: As if one more sex resort is going to tarnish Thailand's good name

World-Class Thai Hospitality for Taiwanese Students in the Brothels of Pattaya

Thailand sex shows main draw of student trips


Sex shows in Thailand's Pattaya have become a main attraction of Taiwan college students' traditional graduation trips, according to local reports.

Hundreds of college students taking a vacation prior to their graduation were seen by a reporter of the United Evening News participating in interactive sex shows in Pattaya.

Female students were invited on to the stage of the show to touch the performers' breasts and genitalia, while male students were urged to watch a man perform acts with his penis.

A local tour guide in Thailand said that the shows have been sold out for the past four months in part with the help of Taiwan students taking advantage of the current month-long winter vacation.

The guide said that every day more than a hundred students from Taiwan traveling in tour groups are attending the shows.

Another tour guide revealed that some tour guides started to add the sex shows as optional features onto the student's tour itinerary years ago as student tours generally earn low profits for the guides.

Students generally do not have the financial ability to purchase jewelry or leather on shopping stops that usual tour groups would make, said the tour guide.

Can't rip the students off by taking them to a phony gem shop or fake leather goods store, so lets take them to see "overpriced" sex shows with watered down drinks instead.

Maybe Pattaya can be Thailand's new education hub.