Sex & SoapOpera GangRape

[ncr]

....or are there?

MCOT/TNA again.... sometimes makes for a fascinating read!

Penis injections erect barriers to sexual function, doctors warn

BANGKOK, May 10 (TNA) - The fashion among teenagers for injecting their penises with olive oil to boost their size could cause misshaped members and even permanent erections, the Director-General of the Department of Medical Services, Dr. Chatri Banchuin, warned today.

Speaking in response to reports that youths in Thailand's central province of Ayutthaya were injecting their penises with olive oil and beta agonists used to redden meat, Dr. Chatri said that the injection of any kind of substance into the penis was extremely dangerous.

Rather than expanding penis size, the oil builds up in the penis. As the body attempts to reject the invasion of foreign substances, the result is swelling, inflammation and abscesses.

If dirty needles are used, the dangers are even more severe, and could lead to the penis being completely amputated. There is also a danger of the oil being injected into the bloodstream by mistake, from where it can infect vital organs and even lead to death.

Even if these severe effects are treated successfully, the penis often ends up crooked or in permanent erection. (TNA)--E006:eek: :eek: :eek:

[GWR]

About ten years ago, a doctor asked me to witness a small op he was going to perform in his clinic. I think he thought it would amuse me. An Isaan Construction Worker had to be circumsized because he'd had his schlong done with Castor Oil. The inflammation had become extremely uncomfortable. The only way to relieve the swelling was to remove the foreskin. Doc had already performed about 5 circumcisions from the same site. I thought the guy wouldn't be so keen on being observed, but his wife & several buddies were already there and having a good chuckle at his expense as they literally held him down. At the end of the op, he fainted a bit from a little blood loss. Post-op care consisted of being carted off in the back of a pickup, surrounded by the amused Isaans.

At the time, Docs invitation seemed almost a bit perverse. I didn't want to offend him, because he'd done me more than several favors over some years. Later I realised why I was invited; Doc wanted some backup in case the construction workers got out of hand.

[Wisarut]

Penis Enlargement by Injecting Olive Oil has become a talk of the town despite for surgeon warnings abotu permannert defiguring penises after operation to relieve the inflammation after injecting olieve oil into the penises. :D

[ncr]

(Also see this thread (http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=839).)

From the front page of The Nation, Saturday 20 August 2005 (so much for the current niveau of journalism):

Defendant seeks help from minister with enlarged penis (http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2005/08/20/headlines/index.php?news=headlines_18391368.html)

In a desperate gambit, a woman being sued by a cosmetic clinic yesterday called on a government minister who supposedly had his penis enlarged by the same surgeon to come forward and testify.

Raweewan Satakrak said she was being sued for defamation by a surgeon in an unspecified clinic in Don Muang district after she accused him of making a mistake in her operation that caused her face to puff up so much that her eyes nearly shut.

She said the surgeon had often boasted about his reputation and even claimed to have performed penis enlargements for two government ministers, one in the current Cabinet and another who passed away some years ago.

Raweewan urged the unnamed minister to come forward and testify whether his operation had produced a desirable outcome.

She believed the minister’s credibility would help her case by setting the record straight.


Well, if his operation was successful, how will that testimony help her? If it wasn't, on the other hand, he will probably not come forward (loss of face, you know....) :p

In any case, it won't have a positive effect on his 'ministerial credibility' to do so. :eek:

Apart from that, it might be much easier to search for the ministers who reduced the size of their brains instead....... :D

[The Enforcer!]

Surely they would not need Penis enlargements - I thought they were big enough Pricks without such an operation?

The Enforcer!

[travelfish]

I'm looking for some material dating back to the 1980s and perhaps early 90's that the TAT was dishing out to promote Thailand -- imagine "Amazing Orgy" rather than "Amazing Thailand"...:p

I've been told from numerous people that in the early 80's the TAT promotions were pretty risque -- particularly in regard to Pattaya. While they didn't come out and say "Come to Thailand to get laid" they weren't far off.

One promo I was told about went along the lines of:

"Got no friend to travel with? No problem! Come to Pattaya and find a new friend... or two"

The advert ran with a picture of a western guy surrounding by bargirls... tasteful stuff:confused:

I've already contacted TAT and they said it was b.s. but I can't imagine anyone taking responsibility for adverts like that nowadays.

What I'm looking for is some quotable sources -- past promos, posters anything -- mainly so I can verify they really were syaing this kind of stuff.

Much appreciated

[doseiai]

According to wikipedia...Pandas have been shown porn of other pandas doing it...and it worked. More suprisingly or perhaps unsurprisingly is who came up with the idea...Thais! :eek:

Supposedly they taped footage of pandas having sex at a Bangkok Zoo, and showed uninterested Pandas the footage. Soon after they got horny...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_pornography

[GWR]

This Citebite links direct to the highlighted text, but still allows you to read the whole article if you so wish:

http://pages.citebite.com/p2e2l2d5j1mnd

Calling Mr. Condom

Daniel Ten Kate
12 October 2007
Thailand renews prevention efforts to stem an uptick in HIV infections

A nervous teenage boy sheepishly walks up to a convenience store counter and whispers softly to the clerk: “Condoms, please.”

“Condoms!” the woman says loudly, prompting everyone in the store to turn and look at the youngster, who suddenly quivers with embarrassment. Then, in a normal voice, she says, “Sir, how many packs do you want?”

This television advertisement, part of a campaign called “Proud to Carry Condoms,” is designed to make Thai teenagers understand that it’s normal to practice safe sex. The message sounds harmless enough, but it deeply angered conservative groups here who said it encouraged teenagers to have sex.

On October 12, the ad will stop airing — not because of the moral outrage, organizers say, but simply because the grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that was funding it is set to expire. In fact, despite opposition from some self-styled moralists and the lack of funds to keep this particular ad running, AIDS activists say that Thailand has actually stepped up its efforts on AIDS prevention in the past year after a big drop off.

..........
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=761&Itemid=31

[GWR]

MCOT News video clip (These reports are re-runs of their midnight news in English on Channel 9):http://enews.mcot.net/clip.php?nid=4997

Sex-change operation: The earlier, the better?


Kun is now 28 years old. She is scheduled to undergo a male-to-female sexual operation on Valentine’s Day. Before reaching decision, Kun spent six years looking for information and seeking advice from different experts.

Today her story is considered a very rare case, because many teen Thai transvestites believe the earlier they get the operation, the more beautiful they will become.

As a result, a growing number of Thai transvestites undergo an operation of no return before coming of age.

“Doctors of some hospitals agree to do an operation because they want money. Some patients are referred to a psychiatrist who promptly signs a recommendation after a brief conversation with the patients.”, said Kun.

Kun urged there should be a certain regulation to control the medical practitioners concerned with sex-change operations. She cited in Europe and America, a patient requiring a sex-change operation needed to undergo a psychological test ranging from 1 to 3 years in duration before receiving green light.

To prevent any regret after an operation, experts said, a teenage transvestite should wait until the age of 25 when their mental status was more stable.

“A teenager is easy to convince. When surrounding people say the operation is good, they just go for it without bothering to ask if they really need a sex-change or not.”, said Dr. Phanphimol Lotrakul.

With the international medical service business becoming tougher, Thailand is being promoted as an ideal place to have a sex-change operation. Legal provisions to regulate the operation – especially among teenagers – should be in place to ensure a higher standard in the sex-change operation service.

Last Update : 2008-01-25, 2008-01-25 (GMT+7:00)

[Wisarut]

ABAC Boll foudn that the boys would like to imitate the Actor who have full right to RAPE actress as they please ...

This a fact that EXPOSE the LIE of the drama director who keep LYING the public that the audient could distinguish what is the drama who is the real life.
http://www.manager.co.th/QOL/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9510000050150

Children enjoy sexual assault scenes on TVs: survey

A recent survey has revealed shocking findings: many children enjoy watching scenes of rapes on TV and they come to see sexual assaults as something common.

"Some children even say they want to be like leading male characters in TV series so that they can rape a woman," Dr Noppadon Kannika said Tuesday as the head of the Assumption University's research centre, "This is worrying".

Conducted from April 24 to April 27, the survey covered 2,159 respondents in Bangkok and major cities. The respondent age starts from two years old up.

According to the survey, raping scenes are the favourite among 21.1 per cent of children aged between 13 and 19 years old, 10.3 per cent of children aged between two and six years old and 6.4 per cent of those aged from seven to 12 years old.

The Nation
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30071880

[Yappofloyd]

Very distrubing but unfortunately hardly surprising given the constant and seemingly accepted high incidence of portraying sexual violence as common in most soaps. Also wondering about the timing of the ABAC Poll last week and Khun Natt (Anchorman) opinion piece in the Post last Thursday? He has been writing dribble recently but this was actually a fairly well written piece. The timing seems too coincidental.....

ANCHORMAN: TV dramas must stop justifying rape ML NATTAKORN DEVAKULA Bkk Post 24/08/09
Rape is a war crime, according to the Geneva Convention. It cannot be used as a weapon during war. Moreover, using rape as conduct to dilute the purity of an opposing nation or ethnic group during wartime is considered a crime against humanity. Further - if it needs to be mentioned again - rape is a crime punishable with lengthy prison sentences in a court of law in this country. Yet this criminal act seems to be legal and accepted in the country's most popular night-time TV soap operas. This perpetuation of an inhumane act must end and only the main television networks have the power to do it.

Here the author makes a specific call to Channel 3 and Channel 7 to terminate any future soap dramas containing plot lines that justify rape. The script writers of our television dramas are better than this. They can do more than recycle old storylines written in a backward time when apparently, and unfortunately, men were seen as superior to women and invincible to the application of the law.

I am not going to lie and tell you that I don't enjoy the verbal spat between Teeradej Wongpuapan (Ken) and Ann Thongprasom (Ann) on screen. The exchanges are dramatic and the scenes are excitingly heated every Wednesday and Thursday evening on Channel 3. The lead character is the troubled son of a rich businessman who apparently has not been brought up properly. The father's role is especially craftily acted by veteran actor Dilok Tongwattana. The self-obsessed son attempts to gain the attention of his multi-time married father while trying his best, for the major part of the series, to make his father's new wife jealous of his increasingly intense relationship with the lead female character played by Ann. The plot of Sawan Bieng (Heaven Unwilling) is an old one. It is normal practice among TV drama production companies to recycle famous though perennially used screenplays, with a bit of adaptation.

All that is fine and these soaps draw huge ratings. The drama of Sawan Bieng, however, in the end becomes based on a love that is spawned by the sexual violence between the lead male and female characters. Ken vengefully rapes Ann to get back at her sister who happens to be his dad's new wife. Still, as time passes, Ann falls in love with Ken. He is not prosecuted for his criminal invasion of another person's sexual inviolateness. Worse, soon afterwards he gets away with the act by having the victim come to terms, to "appreciate" what has been done to her. She effectively falls for him as a ridiculous "logical consequence" of the sexual violence perpetrated on her. Such is the storyline of the country's most popular TV drama series at the moment.

The other one, on Channel 7, is about slavery during the latter years of King Rama V's reign. And, guess what, a slave girl's falling in love with her master is the central premise of this very popular remake. It is great that Nang Thas (Female Slave) does not necessarily justify rape; it however posits the possibility of a slave being able to come to "appreciate" her being owned and then being impregnated.

Reflecting on other popular soaps where rape was central to the plot, one would of the top of his head mention Jamleuy Rak (Prisoner of Love). The title already implies that the female lead is so in love with the male lead that she is willing to be treated like a slave by the guy. If you have ever seen this long-time favourite of Thai audiences, the female lead actually, over time, falls in love with the male lead even though he repeatedly rapes her. Jamleuy Rak not only condones rape; it rationalises the Stockholm Syndrome by arguing that it is appropriate for a victim to fall in love with her captor.

For these to be the highest-rated and most talked-about evening series in this country is for us to accept that our culture enjoys sexual violence and hierarchical dominance over women. This is something I don't think I or the people of this country should accept.

Enough is enough. It is time for a change. Change in this sense does not have to be time-requiring. The entertainment industry is packed with talented writers who can put together some of the most socially-adaptive, humanely-appropriate, as well as mass audience-acceptable screenplays. Why rehash ancient scripts from recycled plots which have all been used before? Why not have storylines that move along with a culture that presumably progresses?

Some say art imitates life, but what if - just what if - life in practice actually imitates art? We, as people working in the media and entertainment industry, owe it to our culturally advancing society to influence the Thai nation in the best ways possible.

There is no conceivable way to comprehend a boy growing up watching his favourite soap and all the while learning from that drama that the best way to get a girl is to hold her captive and rape her. If these soaps don't change, boys will grow up to become men who think and act like the lead characters in Sawan Bieng and Jamleuy Rak. Moreover, what is a young girl supposed to learn from seeing the female lead in these soaps getting victimised and not taking action to defend herself? We cannot make rape justifiable by saying that as long as he "loves" her or is willing to "take care" of her everything will come to a fine, agreeable ending.

This is not, as they say, a matter of ruang len len, things that aren't serious. This certainly is not about being overzealous. This is about pre-setting socially relevant values for future generations. If rape is allowed to be justifiable on screen, over the course of time it will become justifiable in real life - if that is not the case already.
The writer is a news analyst.

[Jromerz]

This deeply disturbing trend that Thai soap operas have been following should come to an end. A huge segment of the population follows these series closely, from all ages and social backgrounds. As they are shown on TV during the peak viewing hours many youngsters are exposed to all the crap that goes on in a typical Thai soap. Must be just an easy way to get the highest ratings - sell the shock value. But its reached a point now where the "shock" part has gone way down and people see it as a normality to show such scenes. How sad that the producers and writers of such shows can't even think of anything new... After what? Like 25 years or something?! :confused:


At the same time there are some (few) regular television series that do not follow the mold too much, and constantly come up with new content. The romantic-comedy series "Bang Rak Soi 9" has been going on now for years and is hugely succesful. So much that they even made a stage show based on the series, with the actors from the show performing live on stage. On the whole, from what I've seen, the content isn't too questionable and there definitely aren't any rapes or beating of women.

I guess that there is still some creativity left in the Thai media world... Not all just using the same plot over and over again to drive the industry further into the pile of useless content that it is already embedded in. Don't think its gonna change anytime soon, the money must be made and the viewers' appetite satisfied with more mindless images of violence.

[Wisarut]

This deeply disturbing trend that Thai soap operas have been following should come to an end. A huge segment of the population follows these series closely, from all ages and social backgrounds. As they are shown on TV during the peak viewing hours many youngsters are exposed to all the crap that goes on in a typical Thai soap. Must be just an easy way to get the highest ratings - sell the shock value. But its reached a point now where the "shock" part has gone way down and people see it as a normality to show such scenes. How sad that the producers and writers of such shows can't even think of anything new... After what? Like 25 years or something?! :confused:


At the same time there are some (few) regular television series that do not follow the mold too much, and constantly come up with new content. The romantic-comedy series "Bang Rak Soi 9" has been going on now for years and is hugely succesful. So much that they even made a stage show based on the series, with the actors from the show performing live on stage. On the whole, from what I've seen, the content isn't too questionable and there definitely aren't any rapes or beating of women.

I guess that there is still some creativity left in the Thai media world... Not all just using the same plot over and over again to drive the industry further into the pile of useless content that it is already embedded in. Don't think its gonna change anytime soon, the money must be made and the viewers' appetite satisfied with more mindless images of violence.

"Bang Rak Soi 9" is a romatic Sitcom so Rape is Unnecessary ...

However, the soap opera is another matter. Nowaday, even the novel writers (most are females) have to learn how to keep their anger down when the directors and the TV case writers have RUINED their novels by constantly adding RAPES and Sexual harasssments and abuses.

Wait until the TV watchers have seen "Rape of Bangkok" at the scale comparable to "Rape of Nanking" in front of theri eyes and they will have realized the dark side of drama that thurn Thai boys into full brown rapists ...

[GWR]

A BAD GIRL DESERVES BAD THINGS, DOESN'T SHE?
By JEERAWAT NA THALANG
jeerawat@nationgroup.com
The Nation
Published on June 14, 2008

Rinlada is a female character in a soap opera titled "Dao Puan Din", which is unofficially translated as "Tainted Star".

Audiences, adults and children alike, are glued to this most-talked-about prime-time drama on Channel 7 from Friday to Sunday. Rinlada is a stereotypical character who does not hesitate to do bad, bad things to her nemesis, Uamdao, the protagonist of the story.

Rinlada obviously has an inferiority complex. She was raised by Uamdao's father as a stepdaugther. She grew up with a devious desire to compete with Uamdao, including trying to steal her boyfriends - the superficial plot in almost every Thai soap and film.

This weekend, Rinlada's fate will be decided. The producer has decided to punish this bad girl by having her raped by 12 men. Women's groups are furious. Palakorn Somsuwan, the producer, defended the decision to honour the original plot, but the most revealing comment comes from Araya A Hargett, the actress who plays this part. She was quoted by Khao Sod as saying: "The soap ends in the way it should. A bad girl deserves bad things." Rinlada will face gang rape to ensure a "happy ending" to this soap.

In fact, the production crew was trying to convince the audience that Rindala "deserves" her fate. Rindala is portrayed as bad. Her father went to jail, and she was brought into a family in which everybody loves Uamdao. Rinlada took at least two of Uamdao's boyfriends and would kill anyone who got in her way. "Tainted Star" is a combination of Hollywood's "Fatal Attraction" and "The Assassin".

The episode in which Rindala successfully seduced one of Uamdao's boyfriends before his wedding to Uamdao saw ratings go through the roof. Audiences were convulsed with anger as they rooted for Uamdao. Rinlada had committed an unforgivable sin. Thus millions are anxious to see how Rinlada will be punished this weekend for her past deeds.

When rumours began spreading that the producers would hand down justice to Rinlada by having her gang-raped, the women's groups asked the producers to change the ending of the story to give the right message to society that rape and sexual assault are serious crimes. The problem, the women say, is that TV producers are suggesting to the audience that crime is acceptable in certain circumstances.

I raised this issue with one of my colleagues, asking whether the fate of Rinlada, albeit fictitious, should be considered a happy ending.

"If so, then there must be something wrong with this society," he replied.

Thais are acting as if they are highly sensitive to anything that affects their "social values", but are we that thin-skinned?

Some conservatives cried out when the Culture Ministry chose the scantily dressed "Girly-Berry" girl group as presenters for the Songkran Festival, but aren't the girls entitled to wear whatever they want as long as they don't break the law? Chotiros Suriyawong, a young actress, had to apologise to the public for wearing too revealing a dress to a Thai awards ceremony equivalent to Hollywood's Oscars, this despite the fact that her dress would pale in comparison to Jennifer Lopez's low-slung V neckline Versace outfit.

The argument from "sensitive" quarters is that "inappropriate" behaviour by young women could increase the number of sexual assaults or rapes. The simplistic rhetoric is that girls should be partly or wholly blamed for acts of aggression against them because of their poor choice of dress, that they are responsible for the circumstances that they put themselves in.

But we haven't heard any argument from these conservative quarters when TV producers try to suggest that sexual assault is acceptable. Such scenes are increasingly shown on TV, even when many young children are still awake and watching. The rating system which appears on the bottom right of the TV screen is a joke.

What is equally sad is that the TV rapists are not branded as bad guys. In "Sawan Beang", a popular TV drama also aired during prime time, the male lead character, played by heart-throb Theeradej Wongpuapan, the Thai version of Brad Pitt, committed rape. In "Sawan Beang" 's final scene, the rapist married his victim and everything was happy-ever-after. I don't know whether it was supposed to be a happy ending or a tragedy that the rapist was not prosecuted for the crime he committed.

The old adage, what comes around goes around, is a popular concept in soap operas. In "Tainted Star", the producers expect that the audience will rise to its feet when the bad girl gets her just deserts and the curtain falls.

But no sane viewer would mind if Rinlada had to go through the legal process and be jailed for some of the acts she committed. The ideal ending would show that there is still justice and redemption. Otherwise no female victim will have any choice but to turn into a bad girl with no opportunity for redemption, just like the protagonist in another classic TV drama, "Hunt".

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/06/14/opinion/opinion_30075490.php

[Wisarut]

If oyu want to know all abotu Sor 7, the current Godmother of the Gossipper in Thailand, please read this interview

http://www.positioningmag.com/Magazine/Details.aspx?id=70455