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Sukhumvit (an avenue) is a mixed area, lots of very nice hotels, a couple of real upscale shopping plazas, but in the lower areas around Soi (side street or alley) 3 to 8 or 10, any single female on the street or sitting in a bar is almost certainly a prostitute. The side streets have lots of massage parlors and bars and, if you are in a bar and the tall, attractive female in the corner gives you a come-hither look, the odds are about 50:50 that person didn't start life as a female.
It is a particularly ironic stroke of geography that the most heavily Muslim section of Bangkok, where many woman are wearing burkas, is directly across the avenue from Soi Nana, an area that bills itself as the 'largest sex complex in the world.' Thus, very religious men and women share the sidewalks and stores fronts with aggressively marketing prostitutes and massage workers.
We were staying at a nice hotel on Soi 11 and walked down to the Arab section to have supper and the picture below seemed pretty indicative of the situation.
Lowland Thai are a beautiful ethnic group and it is common to see women on the street who are just drop-dead beautiful with an almost elfin grace that makes most Western women look large and clumsy.
It is a particularly ironic stroke of geography that the most heavily Muslim section of Bangkok, where many woman are wearing burkas, is directly across the avenue from Soi Nana, an area that bills itself as the 'largest sex complex in the world.' Thus, very religious men and women share the sidewalks and stores fronts with aggressively marketing prostitutes and massage workers.
We were staying at a nice hotel on Soi 11 and walked down to the Arab section to have supper and the picture below seemed pretty indicative of the situation.
Lowland Thai are a beautiful ethnic group and it is common to see women on the street who are just drop-dead beautiful with an almost elfin grace that makes most Western women look large and clumsy.