Any insights on the upcoming regulations?
1. Foreign Service Worker's Card - The card will be required by all female workers in gogo bars, beer bars and any other bars deemed to employ women who may leave the bar and go elsewhere in the company of a foreign man.
To apply, one must be a Thai citizen, must be aged over 18 years, must have a clean criminal record, must undergo a health check and must work for a bar with licensed premises. Foreign Service Worker cards will be issued with a validity of 3 months, and must be renewed every 3 months with a comprehensive STD screening.
2. Hotels are required to register sex workers accompanying a foreign customer to his hotel. The hotel must register her, meaning she must have a Foreign Service worker's Card. The hotel is required to include her details, alongside those of the customer when it completes its daily visitor report to Immigration. These details are added to the foreign visitor's Immigration record.
I have no qualms about the first regulation, but the second one got me thinking a bit. If put into effect later this year, it would mean that chiongsters like us who take a girl (or two) back to the hotel will be "classified" as sex tourists by Thai Immigiration, and if that information is shared with other countries
If the second regulation sticks, then it means no more girls back to the hotel (including ST hotels), as no chiongsters in their right minds would want to be "documented" as sex tourists anywhere
I guess there will be more business for MP's, soapy's and kapoo's
How about katoeys? Are service apartments considered hotels? How about getting on with a regular Thai girl you met on Tagged? Or a regular uni you met at RCA? It would be interesting to see the effects of these two regulations
