Locals in Thailand’s Pattaya are seeing red over public sex acts by tourists, prompting calls for awareness of proper conduct from visitors in the holiday hotspot.
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The latest incident involved a foreign couple who were allegedly having sex in the open on Kratinglay beach, according to local media over the weekend.
A witness, an 18-year-old man known only by the pseudonym Bew, told reporters he had noticed the duo when he was relaxing on the beach with friends.
He added there were other visitors on the sand but the couple seemed unfazed even after he urged them to stop.
“I did not expect that anyone would dare to have sex on the beach with so many people around. It was shocking to me. They should go to a hotel for that,” he was quoted by Thaiger, a bilingual news outlet, as saying.
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Penalties for public sex in Thailand vary from 500 baht (US$15) to prison sentences, according to Pattaya Mail. Foreigners caught may also face repatriation.
