Go-go bars gone as virus hits Bangkok’s sex district


Ghostly: The usually bustling Patpong nightlife and sex trade district now as quiet as a cemetery. — Reuters

The black leather party masks that performers May and Som wear for their fetish shows in Bangkok are definitely not the sort to stop the coronavirus.

Behind closed doors, they practise for the day when health restrictions are lifted and tourists return, but they have no idea when that is and worry that the city’s infamous Patpong red-light district could be very different by then.

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