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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 : Hello All ; Rape and sexual vioence statistics are rising dramatically worldwide. While I believe a lot of this rise is due to the re-definition of exactly what is rape and sexual violence, never-the-less, some more fascinating cuts : From http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-jf-sx.html, an article on the effects of pornography on sexual crime rates. Sex, Cyberspace, and the First Amendment "Fifth, the claim that more sexual crimes occur in geographical areas where sexual material is more available is also without support. Studies in the early 1980s, notably by Drs. Larry Baron and Murray Strauss, suggested that areas with higher consumptions of sexual material experienced higher sexual crime rates. In their later studies they discovered a confounding factor--the number of unmarried males between the ages of 18 and 30. When that variable is factored in, all other correlations disappear. The only factor that predicts sexual crime rates is THE NUMBER OF YOUNG UNMARRIED MEN IN AN AREA." (Emphasis mine). Whoa!! From a web site discussing sexual norms in midevil Europe http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/anthology/beidler/rape.html : "The point here is that rape did take place in medieval times. People knew about it and were concerned about it. They punished the offending rapists, though usually not severely unless the crime was repeated. They also institutionalized prostitution as a form of rape control. In an age when economic and social conditions were such that few men married before the age of 24 (women tended to marry at a younger age), those who managed the cities OPENLY RECOGNIZED THE NEED TO PROTECT THEIR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS (emphasis mine) by providing for regulated and organized prostitution. Indeed, the city leaders often set aside a specific part of town--usually away from the center but not too far away--for prostitution. They licensed certain specific buildings, taverns, or bath houses, and they stipulated the kinds of women who could be prostitutes in these establishments." "One wonders how the local citizens felt about having prostitutes in their midst. It appears that, though they had some concerns, the townspeople were by and large in favor of prostitutes as the lesser of several evils. One thirteenth-century commentator drew an analogy between public women and public sewers. No one really wants either one around, of course, but if you take them away the whole place, not just a particularly rank corner of it, gets contaminated. It is better to have the filth concentrated and regulated than to have it uncontrolled and befouling the whole town." "Not only did the prostitutes draw the lightning bolts of the young men away from the respectable women of the town, but they also helped men avoid three sins often considered worse than fornication with women--masturbation, sodomy, and chastity." Lightning bolts! I love it! I read somewhere (can't find it just now) that 80% of rapes are committed by UNMARRIED men. If you consider that the other 20% of the rapists are probably in defunct marriages, I venture to say (highly speculative) that 1-2% of rapes are committed by HAPPILY MARRIED men. So I recommend that anyone who wants to reduce the rate of rapes and sexual violence should take a close look at how to form happy marriages. My contention throughout this thread is to get the children together when they are young, like we did before for thousands of years, a working strategy that has withstood the test of time. Anyone have any other ideas (like managed prostitution in mideval Europe mentioned above), please post them for everyone's benefit. I think you don't need to be a rocket scientist to see the very likely correllation between happy marriages (or lack thereof) and sexual violence. Anyone (Rooster help me out here) care to make any predictions about the rate of sexual violence coming to Thailand, considering the government crack-down on prostitution, rising age of marriage, Thai women rejecting Thai men, etc?? Can any sane person think that anything will improve?? Go ahead and pass law after law after law. It won't make even a ripple in the tsanumi that is coming. We should get our execution chambers fired up and ready. For every one that we execute (or castrate!), our culture is busy breeding 10,000 more. It cannot be stopped with the tools provided by the current thinking. Sadly, in my normally safe and secure, peaceful, and beloved Thailand, there is trouble coming. I expect sharply rising numbers of sexual violence, child sexual abductions, date rapes, drugging rapes, dungeoun rapists, subway molesters, sexual murders, men hatred, over the next 30 years. Take care of your wives and daughters. The face of lovely Thailand will be changed forever. Very sad indeed. Peace!!

    • Anonymous commented : Hello All ; Apparently we don't have any brave souls out there who want to make some easy predictions. Oh well. Another funny story for you all. About 5 years ago I had a good group of friends who would go out on the town for a guys night out one night every week. All these guys had girlfriends who of course worried about what was happening on these nights out. One of these girlfriends regularly solved the problem in a most amicable way. Every week when he was getting ready to go out, she would come out of the shower, and the towel would "accidently" slip off. So my friend always showed up late, with a big smile on his reddened face and little beads of sweat on his forehead. We all knew what had happened. So the problem was solved with no force, no nagging, no shouting, no unpleasantness, no police, no guns, no laws, no prisons. Actually quite brilliant, because this girl realized that she had little control over the SUPPLY side of the equation, but she could do a lot to eliminate the DEMAND side of the equation. The lesson I learned is that happy marriages reduce the demand side of the equation. So it makes perfect sense to me that the study above found that sexual crime rates directly correlate with the number of unmarried males between the ages of 18 and 30 in an area. These guys are hormonally turbocharged and they aren't getting it. The current policies to reduce social evils only address the supply side. They do little to address the demand side. To keep our wives and daughters safe, in my opinion, the highest priority should be placed on forming happy marriages for all men between the ages of 18 and 30. How do we do this? (Femminists would recommend castration as an alternative but equally effective remedy to the problem). If we do not do this, then sexual crime rates and violence against women are almost guaranteed to increase. I think nobody wants that. Worse still, people will then shake their heads and wonder where all this violence is coming from. Quite simple, actually. Cheers!!

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    Buying property in Thailand

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/02/2006, Last updated on: 11/11/2011

    » Nothing much to say here is there, i think that IAN has told us all there is to know and believe me.......... .he's right.

    • Anonymous commented : No-one made the land or natural resources. Land is the heritage of the people as a whole. Land values are not created by the owner, but by the demand for it, which is determined by its natural attributes or its location in relation to amenities and services provided by others. If foreigners are allowed to buy land, it will drive land prices and land rents upwards. This will reduce the standard of living for the indigenous population, causing abject poverty for many on low or no income. I have visited Thailand many times. The fact the poor can gather wild plants to eat on land not owned by anyone and fish for food means that nobody starves. But, as private landownership increases, this is option is rapidly diminishing. Of course people should have stewardship of the land; otherwise, they will not farm or develop it. But they should compensate the community for withholding it from use by others. People are entitled to value added by their productive efforts, but not from the value of the land itself, which is unearned. This can be achieved by a) the local or central government leasing out the land, as happened in Hong Kong. There the British Government leased land from China for 150 years and raised revenue by selling shorter term leases, or b) taxing the land values on an annual basis. The latter will ensure that the increase in value of land goes to the community as a whole and not the individual land owner. In this way, public investment in infrastructure, amenities, health and education services etc, can be financed without raising other taxes. The tax liability will also ensure that land prices remain low, thereby avoiding the government having to raise interest rates (as in the UK at present) to cool down the property boom. Interest rates have the same affect on property prices as a land value tax (lower them and property prices rise, raise them and property price fall – other things being equal) but high interest rates have detrimental effects on businesses and impoverishes those who are in debt. Thailand has a wonderful chance of avoiding the problems of a high land price economy – gross inequality, high business start up costs, inflationary pressures, and harmful corrective policies. People in the UK have become wage slaves for most of their lives to finance huge mortgages or high rents for a roof over their heads.

    • 119 replies, 367,763 views

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    Thai Marriage Laws

    By Anonymous, Created on: 18/05/2007, Last updated on: 11/08/2010

    » I am trying to understand why Westerners living and married to Thai nationals are denied permanent residency status once they are legally married in the kingdom. In the west a Thai national receives residency once they are officially married to a western citizen. Procedures are followed and intensive...

    • Yasoboy commented : [quote="Aussie John"]Dear Khun Patrick, They now control not only Thailands' economy but make up the highest percent in terms of representation within Thai government. They themselves are not indigenous Thai but due to their wealth and influence have changed the very nature of the social culture in the kingdom. Aussie John. Well written acticle. You’ve mentioned that the Chinese they themselves are not indigenous Thai but due to their wealth and influence have changed the very nature of the social culture in the kingdom. And they now control not only Thailand economy but make up the highest percent in terms of representation within Thai government. Could you also please tell us is Aussie white the indigenous people of Australia? How many percent of the aborigines are representing the Australia governments? How many percent of the Australia economy is control by the aborigines? I will like to hear your comments. In addition, I would like to humbly request you to read the below acticle. Thank you, Yasoboy Race laws restored after Aboriginal crackdown • Published: 22/06/2010 at 02:53 PM • Online news: Asia Australia reinstated race discrimination laws in the remote Northern Territory region Tuesday after suspending them for three years to pursue a controversial crime crackdown in poor Aboriginal townships. Australia's indigenous peoples are believed to have numbered around one million at the time of white settlement, but there are now just 470,000 out of a population of 22 million, and they are the country's most disadvantaged minority. Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin called the suspension, enacted under conservative former prime minister John Howard but amended in parliament late on Monday, a "blight" on Australia's image. "This is an important achievement. The legislation removes what has been a blight on Australia?s reputation as the land of a fair go (chance)," Macklin said. Disabling the legislation allowed Howard to send troops into Outback Aboriginal towns, restrict welfare payments and ban alcohol, under a so-called "intervention" policy condemned as disrciminatory by the United Nations. Macklin said the suspension of race laws left Aborigines, Australia's original inhabitants with a culture stretching back tens of thousands of years, feeling "hurt, betrayed and less worthy than other Australians". "Reinstating the RDA (Race Discrimination Act) restores dignity and helps Indigenous Australians to take ownership of their lives and to drive change in the Northern Territory," she said. Aborigines are believed to have numbered around one million at the time of white settlement, but there are now just 470,000 out of a population of 22 million, and they are Australia's most disadvantaged minority. Centre-left Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an historic apology in February 2008 for past mistreatment after British settlers arrived in Sydney Cove in 1788, but refused to reverse the controversial intervention. UN special rapporteur James Anaya in February condemned the policy as discriminatory and said it stigmatised a group which already suffered disproportionate rates of infant mortality, health problems and suicide. Anaya said the intervention was at odds with Australia's human rights obligations and called for the race laws to be reinstated as a matter of priority. Macklin said Tuesday the intervention's measures had been overhauled to comply with the Act and reflect "special measures that help indigenous people in the Northern Territory achieve equal human rights". In February, two years after the apology, Rudd conceded progress towards improving Aborigines' lives had been too slow, with wide gulfs remaining in life expectancy, child mortality and health.

    • 68 replies, 108,200 views

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    Tourism policy needs a broader context

    Business, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 01/03/2010

    » With the focus of the travel and tourism industry now shifting to strategies designed to capitalise on the nascent global economic recovery, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued a report calling for a "whole of government" approach to tourism policy.

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    All up in the air

    Database, Published on 03/03/2010

    » The most efficient and honoured minister of Information and Communications Technology in more than a year asked Chinese companies if they could design a satellite to replace the original Thaicom One; the request, signed by the Defence Ministry as well as by Ranongruk Suwanchwee herself, would call a Chinese-designed bird a Thai name, and use it to replace the satellite that Shin Corp, now of Shingapore, refuses to replace; assuming the Chinese are willing (haha) to design a satellite and deal with the canny minister, it remains to be seen whether they also would like to build, fit, launch and perhaps maintain the bird, and how that would fit in with the Defence Ministry's contention since September, 2006, that foreigners should not be involved in Thai telecoms.

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    Education for All, with love

    Learningpost, Abigail Cuales Lanceta, Published on 09/03/2010

    » Education chiefs of Southeast Asia meet to renew bonds and the commitment to provide education for all.

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    Cloud won't affect piracy rates: BSA

    Database, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 16/06/2010

    » Cloud computing's role in reducing the threat of software piracy should not be overestimated, and the government should promote interoperability standards and harmonised rule for data protection with industry vendors, said the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

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    Win 7 a winner on my new notebook

    Database, James Hein, Published on 14/07/2010

    » This week I'll catch up on some reports I promised for Windows 7, my new notebook and Jitbit's Macro recorder software.

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    Dealing with capital inflows into Thailand when the baht appreciates

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/09/2010

    » The US dollar is losing value (weakening, depreciating) while Asian currencies have been gaining value (strengthening, appreciating). This makes Asian exports more expensive which could have a negative effect on the Thai economy.

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