Thai Teens embrace pre-marital sex

September 27, 2004

Bangkok - Thai teenagers’ chaste reputation has gone out of the window with more than half of Bangkok youths believing that pre-marital sex is no longer taboo, poll results showed.

Public displays of affection among teenagers are virtually the norm now in the once-staid Thai capital as youths — bombarded by erotic marketing, racy television and a more liberal attitude — come to see sex as fashionable, the survey showed.

Of the 417 teenage high school students in Bangkok polled by Rajabhat Suan Dusit University this month, 51.3 per cent said underage or pre-marital sex is now acceptable and a full 92.81 per cent said teenagers should be able to express their love in private.

In a worrying trend, however, the largest single reason for why students expressed their love in public, totalling 36.11 percent of respondents, was “following the trend”.

Also disturbing are recent reports that Thai students had been recently warned by the transportation minister in Bangkok to 'refrain from sex during their communte,' as more and more teenagers resorted to having sex on public transport for lack of privacy options elsewhere.

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