Lady boys in Pattaya & Katoeys in Pattaya.

Anyway, as things are now, the ladyboys all hang out on Beach Road and eventually they start being stupid and pissing everybody off. Then the cops come along, round them all up, charge them 200 baht... (I like this sentence in the article: "Because this group were not seen committing a crime they could only be fined 200 Baht each at Pattaya Police Station before being released." It tells you a lot about a ladyboy's bottom-of-the-barrel status in Pattaya) ... before sending them right back to what they were doing before.



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In Pattaya and in whole Thailand these people are completely accepted in this culture. The lady boy or the katoey not hide or not shame who they are. You heard about the katoeys in Pattaya and you think you can spot them easily, but here in Thailand is the technology a state of art. The lady boys in Pattaya are active in many bar areas and Soi's. Maybe at the first time you not realized it is a katoey but when you think, you can ask it normally if they are. This people are open to this and they will tell you. Just handle them with respect.

The katoeys in Pattaya you can spotted them by their height. The most are very tall for Thais. You have always to remember that a katoey is still a man. It doesn't matter how the body like. To enlarge the breasts they take hormones. Because they take hormones, the katoey have more emotions in the head, there are two people in the head of a katoey. This katoeys can be very emotional and moody. Start never an argument or a fight with them. All the katoey friends friends are coming together and what happened, they will beat you. Remember this about the katoeys, they still a men and will fight as a man.

The people choosing to go with Katoeys or the Pattaya lady boys, be careful, if they are freelancers on the street and they not work in a bar. You can be drugged or robbed at them place or hotel. You choose this kind of people, do it with caution and be careful.

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In short Pattaya is the perfect winter getaway and in 2007 over 5 million tourists did just that and took their holidays there. But here's the thing, Pattaya stinks of piss, sewage is openly dumped in the sea, its beach is dirty and littered with broken deckchairs, the shopping is your standard Thai rip-off designer guff that you can buy anywhere and the food is mostly international junk food franchises. No one comes to Pattaya for its natural beauty or culture; they go there for sex. The sex trade is the biggest direct and indirect employer in the town. From the tuk-tuk drivers getting commission for bringing men to go-go bars to the street vendors selling cut-price Viagra, everyone is somehow involved.