Video of tourists having sex on Pattaya beach sparks outrage

This was not the first such incident that has provoked outrage among Thais over inappropriate behaviour along Pattaya’s picturesque beaches. PHOTO: UNSPLASH via The Straits Times/ANN

PATTAYA, Thailand (The Straits Times/ANN): Even for a city with an unsavoury and obviously unwanted reputation as the “largest red-light district on earth” – bestowed upon it by a British newspaper in 2017 – an evening of passionate love-making on a Pattaya beach for everyone to see is just too much.

A short clip of two tourists fornicating at night on a beach in a suburb in the east coast city in Thailand – oblivious to the handful of people around them – is again drawing attention to Pattaya’s image as “sin city”.