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    Pre-Marital Sex. - Part I.

    By Anonymous, Created on: 18/06/2003, Last updated on: 26/04/2007

    » Hello Mr. Rooster ; I moved this discussion to this more appropriate thread. Mr. Rooster wrote : "People are like animals, and their sexual drives will involve some types of pre-marital sex. So prostitution will be there to provide needed service. " The sexual urge is indeed extraordinarily powerful,...

    • Anonymous commented : it is a form of rape. In my book, a single bullet is the answer for the psychopathic mind. Prostitution is a profession and it will be there no matter what to provide the needed service. I am an orthodox buddhist so I will explain my possition regarding to buddhism. Since we do not uphold to any gods or those pratice ways from your bible. Polygamy has different definitions between your bible and the Teaching of Buddha. Buddhism does not prohibit polygamy. However, everyone in the family have to consent to the new additional member to the family. And the head of the household should be able to PROVIDE the SAME for all family members. Would polygamy prevent pre- or extra-martial sex? I would say no. Because human is like rodent of opportunity. This is one reason for Thai men and family to follow western family and social structures, because it is more affordable by divorcing and remarrying. Many societal institutions in Thailand have to change their procedures in order for people to get marry at younger age. They should be able to choose whether to start a family or get an education first. There are age barriers in every sectors in Thai society. There are no serious continue education and cutoff age for college admission. Thai people should be able to get their education and starting a carreer at any ages. If the women choose to have family first and get education later, they should be able to choose. Education system by itself already forcing Thai people to get marry at a later age. Most Thai leaders have miotic views of education and future, because of self-interests and foreign cultural influences. There is limited carreer choices for women who are divorced with children. They could not support their our children and their old parents with minimum wage, so prostitution may be an unwanted carreer of choice. I do not think that anything of significant will change soon in my lifetime. So those who want to marry or having sex with 10 years old will have to waite awhile longer or get a single bullet.

    • Anonymous commented : ve read some very interesting books about it and I would like to post some quotes from "The Teaching of Buddha", by Buddhist Promoting Foundation, Japan. So everyone please feel free to correct me if I am wrong about anything. "The parents should do five things for their children : - avoid doing evil, set an example of good deeds, give them an education, arrange for their marriage, and let them inherit the family wealth at the proper time. If the parents and child follow these rules the family will always live in peace." pp 214. "Third, people should respect old customs and not change them unreasonably, and they should also observe the rules of ceremony and maintain justice." pp. 230 Friends, makes sense to me. My book on the teachings of Budda does not specifically say for the parents to arrange marriage at puberty, but apparently this is what Thailand has been doing for a very long time. "Or students' sex: ``Look at the history, at what age did a Thai girl want to have a husband in the past? When she had her first period! The system of modern education teaches that virginity should be protected until university graduation, and if a woman chooses to lose it before we panic because we think it's such a big problem." - Outspoken writer Lakhana Punvichai in Bangkok Post Real Time, March 28, 2003. "She says men fear her. She says they try to stay away from her free-spoken radius of tough thoughts and liberal lucidity. Now we hear her think, we watch her unravel, and ah, we say those men don't know what they are missing." Sadly, Ms. Lakhana attempts to legitimize casual student sex by comparing student sex to marrying your soul mate and life's partner when you are young. They are not the same at all. For my feelings on this teaching, see my 'Background Info' post. Yes, I am afraid of her, and yes, I do know what I am missing. Cheers!!!

    • Anonymous commented : Hello All ; Another startling cut from the Bangkok Post , July 24, 2003. "Epic Marriage Ends" " Taipei - The 103-year-old wife in the world's longest-lasting marriage has died. Liu Yang-wan from Taiwan was married in 1917 to Liu Yung-yang, who is now 104. Their daughter-in-law said Mrs. Liu died peacefully from natural causes. Their 86 year marriage was the longest registered in the Guiness Book of World Records, beating former American record holders by three years. According to ancient tradition, Liu Yang-wan was sent to live with her future husband's family at the age of 5, to take care of him and do household chores, relatives said. - Reuters." After the "new thinkers" get over their horror, let's take a closer look at this. Apparently, the boy was 6 and the girl was 5 when they were brought together by the familes. As a result of this arrangement, the fabric of the childrens's lives becomes so inter-twined that the very thought of separation becomes UNTHINKABLE. This is a true soul mate. This is so important that I want to say it again : if you can successfully inter-twine the children's lives, the thought of separation becomes UNTHINKABLE. This is what you need to strive for if you want a low divorce rate. Contrast this to our current "wisdom", which strives for independance, self sufficiency, strength, women's rights, men's right's, children's right's, and the whole "dating game", which takes our children's precious hearts and rips them to shreds. The new thinking cannot solve any of today's problems. Rather, it is the cause of today's problems. Who do you think will have a lower divorce rate, the "ancient tradition" mentioned above, or our "new thinking" tradition? I believe things could improve substantially if we try to fuse some of the elements of "ancient tradition" with the rigors and "artificial environments" of modern life. This is entirely possible, but so far our sociologists and cultural leaders (both in the West and in Thailand) have failed to even identify the root cause of the problems. This is why everyone is spinning out of control, and this is why I know that things will continue to get worse, MUCH, MUCH worse before they get better. Cheers!!

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    Learning about Thai ladies in marriage and culture

    By Anonymous, Created on: 23/08/2003, Last updated on: 21/10/2007

    » I would like to learn about the Thai lady in marriage and the Thai culture. The reason for this, is that after literally travelling the world for many years, during work commitments, and meeting along the way many ladies for serious relationships. I met along the way a lady from Thailand. We met many...

    • Anonymous commented : hing that can be explained in books or in writing for that matter. It's more something that is learned by observation. By observation, I mean as a child would be brought up by his father. I hope that I brought a little insight on your delema. Best of luck to you.

    • Anonymous commented : ove to read them Marvel comic books and wearing their favor characters on t-shirts too.

    • Anonymous commented : So far i have now read three books, on the Thai culture, have spoken to many Thai. Have started to meet Thai friends, but the relationship between husband and wife seems to alude all written knowledge. The best i can get is books written for expats that work in Thailand, so when you think about it, its harder than it sounds. I would love to go and live in Thailand to find out for myself. But then thats a luxury i dont have. Suppose its the same for a Thai wanting to learn about other cultures. Will continue to look and learn.

    • 27 replies, 16,641 views

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    family visa

    By Anonymous, Created on: 02/01/2004, Last updated on: 12/09/2006

    » When the Thai government will allow foreigners with Thai spouse and children to own a one year visa without the need to travel out of the country every 3 month or to show 800 thousands bahts in a bank account, this is very unfair and even most of the Thais don't earn this sum per year, why this discrimination...

    • Anonymous commented : According to the book just released by Gen. Chavalit, negotiations for a loan from China fell through. So what are you going on about Rooster ? It was the IMF which bailed Thailand out.

    • Anonymous commented : ough - why is Chavalit's book now saying it did n't ?

    • 65 replies, 24,845 views

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    British Embassy in Bangkok

    By Anonymous, Created on: 05/10/2004, Last updated on: 25/02/2011

    » In March, my Thai partner wanted to visit me in London. Before granting a visa, the Embassy wanted a mountain of paperwork including proof of my income, whether or not I woned my own home and a whole lot of other things. At this stage, I have to say that we have many controversial issues in the UK...

    • Anonymous commented : didn't even look at her bank book. I read all the various embassy requirements very carefully before each application and provided detailed documentation on both of our backgrounds as well as invitations from hosts with copies of their passports and evidence of their addresses. I attended all the interviews with her. On each occasion she was given the visa immediately after brief interviews to confirm some of the details in the documentation. I have no complaints at all except that the American Embassy is very hot and queues there are long and that the Spanish Embassy requires notarised documents from a host which cost me 200 euros. The British Embassy came out absolute tops in terms of efficiency and courtesy for my money. I also have nothing but praise for the consular section. If you look at British Embassy web site you will see that they are looking for a company to outsource some of the visa work to. I hope they can maintain the same standards.

    • 64 replies, 66,876 views

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