Thailand's Darkest Attraction: Behind Pattaya's Intimacy Industry

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-13

[00:00:06][music] >> We're in the red light district of Pattaya.

[00:00:10]For 2 years now, we've been investigating international sex tourism here.

[00:00:18]An estimated 60,000 women, men, and transgender people earn a living in the city [music] with sex work.

[00:00:25]But, the neon lights cast a dark shadow.

[00:00:28]In many of these bars, minors are being sexually exploited.

[00:00:37]In September 2022, while we were filming in Pattaya, a sex tourist from Germany was arrested [music] on suspicion of child sex abuse.

[00:00:45]He's alleged to have picked up underage girls in a beer bar and taken them to his apartment.

[00:00:51]The man managed to flee to Germany under conspicuous circumstances.

[00:00:56]To our surprise, he later agreed to talk to us on camera in Frankfurt and partially admitted to the allegation.

[00:01:14]In that interview, he claimed that he bought his way out of Thailand with bribes.

[00:01:21]In Pattaya, we came across a web of corruption, crime, and hypocrisy.

[00:01:34]We released our documentary, The Return of the Sex Tourists, in February 2023.

[00:01:41]It sparked a frenzy of debate in the Thai media. [music] Even the Prime Minister made a statement.

[00:01:56]We continued our investigation for another year, digging deeper into this world.

[00:02:01]Our research raised many questions.

[00:02:03]Above all, is [music] Thailand really doing all it can to fight child prostitution?

[00:02:22]We began our research in Pattaya in 2022.

[00:02:26]The city draws several hundred thousand sex tourists from all over the world every year.

[00:02:31]With its 24/7 go-go bars, massage parlors, and sex for sale, the resort is also popular with many German men.

[00:02:39]Men like Wolfgang Grill.

[00:03:00]>> [music] >> This is Walking Street in the heart of Pattaya.

[00:03:10]Employees from a private child protection organization are doing their rounds.

[00:03:15]During peak tourist season, they try to talk to sex workers and tourists.

[00:03:23]Can you speak English?

[00:03:26]Okay, we are from Human Help Network Foundation.

[00:03:30]Recently, we have been reported with the crime against the children. So, if you see any suspicious activities against the children, if you think that children might be forced to work during the night time with the unpleasant environment, you can alert the authority here.

[00:03:48]Can I have a few moment of your time?

[00:03:50]You speak English?

[00:03:54]What we hear a lot is that the tourists and people say child prostitution was a problem 15 or 20 years ago in Pattaya. Now, we have everything under control.

[00:04:07]That that's a very tricky question because uh we have been in our own experience, we see that from time to time someone can always manage to sneak in and do something bad against the children. We have a lot of walking cases reporting the incident or any any bad activities against the children. And especially the in this area, the Walking Street area is very famous for the nightlife, so it is very crowded, very unhealthy for the children. But, at least there's a thin line between prostitution and child prostitution.

[00:04:44]Child protection organizations argue that what's called normal sex tourism here in these red light districts creates structures that pose a severe threat to children.

[00:04:57]While we were filming, this little boy appeared on the street lined with bars all on his own.

[00:05:03]>> [music] >> His family had sent him out to sell chewing gum to tourists.

[00:05:08]The child protection workers take him home.

[00:05:14]How are you? How are you?

[00:05:16]Everything good?

[00:05:18]Where are you from? Germany. What's your name? Mark.

[00:05:22]Nice to meet you. What's your name? Pa.

[00:05:25]Pa. How old are you, Pa? 21. 21.

[00:05:30]You look cute. Thank you. You want to come drink inside?

[00:05:33]Most of the German men who come to Pattaya are ready to ignore the problems here.

[00:06:07]Or if you see any children involving with the underage prostitution [music] Niol from the child protection organization continues to draw tourists' attention to the bitter reality, urging them to call a hotline if they see anything suspicious.

[00:06:23]One case that would keep us busy in the months to come had recently been in the news.

[00:06:28]Just a short time ago, a German tourist was arrested and accused of sexual child abuse.

[00:06:34]The victims worked in a beer bar not far away, just some hundred meters from here. What did you think when you heard [music] the story?

[00:06:42]It It deeply saddens me when I heard it that this the news.

[00:06:46]I think because of COVID, many people are struggling to to survive financially on the daily basis. And once the country just reopen, everyone wants to jump into any anything that they can get their hands on. And also Thai government for that specific girl, I feel very sorry for her and it is best for the community and for the government to prevent this kind of thing from happening from the very beginning. Instead of just trying to catch the criminal, [music] we should have uh a very strong punishment or we the law enforcement officer should should be very serious about the crime [music] against the children and the underage prostitution.

[00:07:35]We're on our way to the scene of the crime, the Cobra Bar.

[00:07:38]This street does not lead into dark back alleys, but right into the heart of Pattaya's entertainment district.

[00:07:45]It seems to confirm what the child protection worker told us, that child prostitution hides in the shadows of what's called normal sex tourism.

[00:07:54]The red light district is a place where it goes unnoticed.

[00:07:59]>> [music] >> The bar has since been closed by the police.

[00:08:04]The English owner and his Thai wife are said to have put underage girls to work as prostitutes.

[00:08:10]In addition to the previously mentioned German man, an American man has also been arrested in connection with the case.

[00:08:20]The official notice that the bar has been shut down is displayed for everyone to see.

[00:08:26]But, hardly anyone we speak to in the neighborhood is willing to talk about what was apparently going on there.

[00:08:34]There are dozens of establishments right next to the Cobra Bar.

[00:08:37]The people who work here insist that all the women who work there are over the legal age of consent.

[00:08:46]We are searching in the Cobra Bar on the other side of the road. Do you you know why they are closed?

[00:09:00]It's about child prostitution. They had underage girls working there.

[00:09:07]Yes, that's why they are closed. That's why I ask you what you think about it.

[00:09:33]I like all the ladies.

[00:09:37]>> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:09:40]The bar owner of the bar should check before they employ people. They don't know rules.

[00:09:47]People who were doing that over there were trafficking young children. So, it's wrong.

[00:09:51]Should not be doing that. Children should be let to be children and grow up.

[00:09:56]Go out, play games, be happy.

[00:09:59]Yeah.

[00:10:01]This footage from the Cobra bar is posted on YouTube for all to see.

[00:10:06]>> [music] >> Men bragging about sexual exploits with minors.

[00:10:12]>> [music] >> Some of these girls have their dates of birth tattooed on their bodies in Roman numerals.

[00:10:21]Apparently, a clear signal to pedophilic customers looking for sex with minors.

[00:10:34]>> [music] >> It should, of course, be spelled out that most sex tourists who come to Thailand are not looking for sex with children.

[00:10:49]For many men, prostitution is a transactional business between consenting adults. Make swimming.

[00:10:57]>> [laughter] >> Wolfgang Grill is ready to talk with us on camera.

[00:11:05]He wants us to see it from his perspective.

[00:11:08]His companion prefers to say nothing.

[00:12:23]It's September 2022.

[00:12:25]We're in Bangkok on our way to police headquarters to meet the Deputy National Police Chief.

[00:12:31]After several requests, Surachate Hakparn has agreed to give us an interview.

[00:12:36]At this point, we have no idea that he will play a key role in our investigation.

[00:12:41]He's just come from a meeting with the Interior Minister. He'll change into his everyday uniform to talk to us.

[00:12:52]Surachate Hakparn has a reputation for being tough on organized crime in red-light districts.

[00:12:58]We want to know what specifically he's doing to combat child prostitution.

[00:13:41]Okay.

[00:13:45]As the Deputy Police Chief is thanking us for the interview, we ask him about the German man who was arrested in Pattaya.

[00:13:52]Unexpectedly, he invites us to film a meeting about the case.

[00:14:02]The Thai's Chief of Police has just arrived. He has new details.

[00:15:01]At this [music] point, September 2022, all the police could tell us about the German man was that he's from Frankfurt and under investigation for rape and child sexual abuse.

[00:15:13]>> [music] >> Photos from the police files indicate that he was a regular at the Cobra bar.

[00:15:24]The footage shows that the underage girls who work there got drunk with the customers, often to the point of passing out.

[00:15:31]Evidence suggests they were ordered to do so.

[00:15:39]>> [music] >> The girls who were freed from the bar are now being looked after by social workers and therapists.

[00:15:48]We're not allowed to film the facility where they're living, but we can film at another place run by the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand.

[00:15:57]The home on the outskirts of Pattaya helps boys and girls who've been sexually abused find their way back to a normal life.

[00:16:12]The director of the home tells us that many of these children had already experienced abuse at home before they were forced into prostitution.

[00:16:24]You told me that the the children who come to your place are severely traumatized.

[00:16:29]What can you do to help them in your center? We are not a center. We are a home for them. All the children are called the teachers daddy or mommy here.

[00:16:38]Some of the cases we know that the children take like at least 6 months to 12 months before they truly believe that we are here for them. Then they start explaining their deep emotion or things like that. But this thing takes a lot of patience and time.

[00:17:03]Noy is one of the girls being helped here.

[00:17:06]She's now 10 years old and has lived here for 3 years.

[00:17:10]As a young child, Noy was abused by her father and he sold her to paying customers in Pattaya.

[00:17:21]The social worker from the Human Help Foundation takes care of Noy.

[00:17:25]They do crafts together, learn together, and talk a lot.

[00:17:35]The social worker asks what she wants to be when she grows up.

[00:17:41]Her big dream, Noy says, is to become a singer.

[00:19:01]Almost all of the 80 places in the child welfare facility are occupied.

[00:19:05]Since sex tourism has returned to Pattaya, the problem with sexual violence against children has also massively increased again.

[00:19:22]Right next to the hotel area and the large red-light districts are the poorer parts of Pattaya.

[00:19:28]Today, the child protection workers from the Human Help Network are at work here.

[00:19:37]Because the children from the poorer quarters are the most defenseless and thus the easiest targets of child sex offenders.

[00:19:53]With such educational videos, child protection workers try to make it clear to boys and girls, be careful. Even if the foreign tourists seem nice to you and give you gifts, under no circumstances go with them to their hotel room.

[00:20:11]Today, the children learn through play how to protect themselves from assault in the red light district and which parts of their bodies they must not let strangers touch under any circumstances.

[00:20:22]Child protectors say there is of course a big moral difference between adult prostitution and child sexual exploitation, but there are links.

[00:20:32]We ask if there's a co-responsibility of the Western travel companies.

[00:20:36]Yes, definitely because you know for majority of the tourists, they are given certain instructions that you have to go up, get the visa like this, but one thing that has never been in the picture of the tourists is that there are certain moral and traditional issues that you have to respect. Even though Thailand is very well known for sex tourism, but it doesn't mean that you can behave wherever uh whatever you like, wherever you like, or to whomever you like. When you act in in in when you have interaction with local people, they are not prostitutes.

[00:21:15]We have to educate the children that that is not acceptable here in the normal and functional SOCIETY HERE.

[00:21:25]>> [screaming] >> THE SEX INDUSTRY IS UBIQUITOUS in Pattaya.

[00:21:35]The self-proclaimed queen of Pattaya is well connected with the sex worker scene and gives tips on where the hottest parties in town can be found.

[00:22:05]>> [laughter] >> On her YouTube channel, the queen of Pattaya presents her favorite hotel complete with sex workers posing for her in the rooms.

[00:22:28]Given that prostitution is officially banned in Thailand, we're surprised to see how openly it's advertised on YouTube.

[00:22:42]We dig deeper.

[00:22:44]In December 2022, we find this very hotel, Selena Place, on the major booking platforms including TUI, Germany's largest tourism company.

[00:23:01]Is the German travel industry making money from sex tourism in Pattaya?

[00:23:05]TUI sends us a response. More on that later.

[00:23:10]Selena Place itself doesn't respond to our inquiry.

[00:23:17]We've been invited to a police press conference in Pattaya.

[00:23:22]Deputy National Police Chief Surachate Hakparn has traveled from Bangkok to report on the latest progress in the fight against illegal brothels and child prostitution.

[00:23:32]We take the opportunity to ask questions.

[00:24:22]At this point, the message from the Deputy Police Chief is clear. Pedophilic sex tourists can expect no leniency.

[00:24:31]But what he doesn't know that evening is that just 7 days later, the German suspect manages to leave Thailand under conspicuous circumstances.

[00:24:43]A few months later, we get in touch with him.

[00:24:49]To our surprise, he agrees to give us an interview in Frankfurt.

[00:24:58]He says [music] that he bribed his way out of Thailand because he didn't believe he would get a fair trial there.

[00:25:04]He wants to remain anonymous.

[00:25:44]He shows us a cell phone video that he says proves he paid bribes to get out of Thailand.

[00:25:51]Together with bail and legal fees, it cost him almost 50,000 euros, he tells us in December 2022.

[00:26:00]As for the child sex abuse investigation, he says it was all a misunderstanding.

[00:27:41]Can I just say this goes out to all of the fair market the women are just only women that are just being traded and it's just getting bigger and bigger and then and all the people it's almost an industry that is just going to go on and on.

[00:27:59]I would also in the future advise everyone to not go there and just go there.

[00:28:05]The suspect was only taken into custody in Frankfurt 6 months after this interview.

[00:28:11]He's still being investigated in Germany for aggravated sexual abuse of a child.

[00:28:16]It was only through our research that the public prosecutor's office found out about the case.

[00:28:22]The authorities in Thailand had apparently tried to sweep it under the carpet.

[00:28:27]Even when the alleged sex offender was allowed to leave the country for Germany, the German authorities were not informed.

[00:28:36]We tried to find out from the authorities in Bangkok why exactly was the suspect allowed to leave the country.

[00:28:43]We're given a bizarre answer.

[00:28:45]The alleged sex offender was released because he said he had to return to Germany for a business meeting, then failed to return to Thailand as ordered.

[00:28:59]>> [music] >> For the Thai public, that's not a satisfactory answer.

[00:29:10]After Deutsche Welle broadcast the documentary about sex tourism in Pattaya, the case of the alleged sex offender who fled Thailand caused a major stir in the local media.

[00:29:47]Even the Prime Minister made a statement while on an official trip outside Bangkok, Thai TV reporters referred to our film and asked Srettha Thavisin if criminals can leave the country with official papers, what does it say about police corruption?

[00:30:35]The Prime Minister's statement alarmed many listeners.

[00:30:39]Allegations of corruption among the police.

[00:30:48]At a hastily convened press conference, the Deputy National Police Chief declared that officers in Pattaya had violated regulations by allowing the suspect to leave the country on bail.

[00:31:29]The Deputy Police Chief then took questions from the Thai press.

[00:31:33]Was there any evidence as to who took the bribe? He was asked.

[00:32:10]The Deputy National Police Chief announced that he'd be launching an investigation into two high-ranking police officers from Pattaya and that he would soon be flying to Germany to question the suspect in person. He wanted to find out who had accepted a bribe.

[00:32:26]We were curious to see what would happen next.

[00:32:33]We're on our way to the parliament in Bangkok.

[00:32:36]Our film triggered a wider debate in the country on issues that have long been taboo.

[00:32:41]Police corruption, prostitution, and child sex abuse.

[00:32:51]Thailand's political system has been in a state of upheaval for some time and remains so after the general election in 2023.

[00:33:00]We have an appointment with the main opposition party, the Move Forward Party.

[00:33:05]Progressive and center-left, it wants to challenge Thailand's conservative forces and powerful elites.

[00:33:12]We have an appointment with one of its best-known MPs.

[00:33:17]There were many reactions to our film in Thailand. You called for political consequences. What exactly do you mean?

[00:33:58]We asked him what he thinks of the government and police pledges to clarify what exactly happened to the suspected sex offender from Germany.

[00:34:37]The courage of the opposition MP to take action against entrenched structures and corruption was not rewarded.

[00:34:44]A few months after our interview, his liberal Move Forward Party was banned by the Thai Constitutional Court, allegedly for anti-royal activities.

[00:34:54]At the moment, the parliamentary opposition is trying to regroup under a new name.

[00:35:02]And the Prime Minister, who had promised to shed light on the situation and make changes, is no longer in office.

[00:35:09]The elites loyal to the king and the powerful Thai military have forced him out of office.

[00:35:17]Many liberal approaches have been thwarted, but pressure from the streets is growing.

[00:35:22]Sex workers are becoming more self-confident and are demanding an end to double standards.

[00:35:31]The state that earns billions from the sex industry must finally legalize prostitution, they demand in a petition.

[00:36:04]The protests are having an impact. A law to decriminalize sex workers is now in the works.

[00:36:11]Thailand's estimated 250,000 prostitutes would then have the right to occupational safety and health insurance, for example.

[00:36:23]The professional sex workers also distance themselves from the exploitation of minors.

[00:36:29]Their argument, if prostitution between consenting adults is legalized, the criminal structures in the red-light districts will be broken and the fight against child prostitution would be made easier.

[00:36:42]In the red-light district of Pattaya, business is booming.

[00:36:45]Stefan from Germany runs his own YouTube channel where he provides his followers with research findings.

[00:36:55]What's your name?

[00:36:58]Again?

[00:36:59]Sasa? Ah, my name is Stefan from Germany.

[00:37:05]Oh, welcome.

[00:37:12]What are you doing here?

[00:37:14]>> [singing and music] >> I I speak English little bit. Ah, you speak English little bit. I working first time 1 month. 1 month here? [music] Ich bin immer sehr neugierig.

[00:37:29]>> [music] >> Mom, ich möchte wissen, was die Mädchen in der Bar verdienen.

[00:37:57]Und dann ist es rausgefunden. Ich habe es leider nicht rausgefunden. Die Verständigung, die Sprachdifferenz sind zu stark. Sie spricht kaum Englisch. Ich spreche kaum Thai.

[00:38:07]Und ah Ich krieg es leider nicht raus. Ich weiß, sie bekommt für den Lady Drink 50 Baht. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie ein Fixum bekommt. Und sie Auch das Fixum ist 40 Baht, 1,50 Euro.

[00:38:18]Mom, Mom looks not very very friendly.

[00:38:28]Okay, thank you. Kop Khun Kap.

[00:38:31]Sawasdee Kap. Bye-bye.

[00:38:33]At this point, the boss of the bar interferes.

[00:38:36]Order two drinks now or get out.

[00:38:39]YouTuber Stefan decides to get out.

[00:38:45]One unanswered question.

[00:38:47]How did Germany's largest travel company react to the findings of our research?

[00:38:52]In early 2023, TUI said it hadn't known about the conditions in the Selena Place Hotel and the growing problem of child prostitution in Pattaya.

[00:39:02]It said it would be removing hotels in the red-light district from their listings.

[00:39:09]The TUI press officer wrote to us.

[00:39:16]>> [music] [music] >> These, ECPAT, are the international criteria that call for the end of commercial exploitation of children.

[00:39:36]The Thai Hotels Association also reacted to TUI's retreat.

[00:39:41]It criticized our findings on sex tourism and called them a serious blow to the tourism industry.

[00:39:47]We would have liked to talk to the head of the association, but she declined our interview request.

[00:39:54]We look her up on the internet. In a recent interview, Marisa Sukosol Numbackti discussed her vision for the future.

[00:40:07]What trends do you see in the hospitality industry for 2024?

[00:40:12]>> significant trend is sustainability.

[00:40:15]Many more um travelers are interested in sustainability and want to travel responsibly. Uh more and more agents and tour operators are looking to book green hotels as well.

[00:40:27]Sustainability and responsibility?

[00:40:30]The head of the association has a family business that owns one four-star and two five-star hotels in Pattaya. All three can be found with just a few clicks on sex tourism websites.

[00:40:42]They're rated guest-friendly, a common euphemism that means it's possible to take sex workers to your room.

[00:40:52]The online reviews leave us in no doubt.

[00:41:02]I've rigorously tested the hotel's joiner policy with some Walking Street bar girls and can certify to be guest-friendly.

[00:41:12]We wrote to the head of the hotel association again asking for a statement.

[00:41:17]We also asked her what the hotels are doing to prevent guests from taking underage girls to their rooms.

[00:41:23]We didn't get a response.

[00:41:32]It's not easy to talk to authorities in Thailand about the sex industry.

[00:41:37]The fact that minors are sexually exploited is a taboo subject.

[00:41:47]Lisa Hamilton, chairperson of the Night Life Business Association in Pattaya, was willing to talk to us.

[00:41:54]She claims to represent a thousand nightclubs and beer bars.

[00:41:58]She was keen to prove to us that her association is serious about clamping down on child prostitution. So first I want you to go to this She says she's launched an awareness campaign in the bars of Pattaya.

[00:42:11]She takes us to a friend's bar.

[00:42:36]>> [music] >> And we try to tell them how to run the business, how to make Pattaya is safe >> [music] >> and they try to awake for like okay like a before underage kids uh to become to to come and and use like a pub or other nightlife zone something, you know? They don't They don't serious too much before.

[00:43:08]They don't know how bad they going to get. Now I tell them okay if you have young children, your place your business will close for 5 years.

[00:43:16]You know? And then you will you will be in jail.

[00:43:20]Lisa promotes what she calls her five times no policy in the bar district. No weapons, no violence, no drugs, no human trafficking, and above all no child prostitution.

[00:43:36]How successful the campaign will be remains to be seen.

[00:43:45]Meanwhile in Frankfurt, there's progress in the case of the suspected sex offender.

[00:43:51]The deputy national chief of police has arrived supposedly to question the suspect in custody.

[00:43:57]But it turns out that Surachate Hakparn failed to submit an official request for mutual assistance in advance.

[00:44:07]Nonetheless, at the Consulate General, he describes the visit as a success and presents a letter in which the suspect withdraws his accusation of bribery.

[00:44:16]The deputy national chief of police apparently sent him several letters in his cell and made it clear that if he didn't withdraw his accusations, he would never be allowed to enter Thailand again. He would be arrested immediately and charged with bribery.

[00:44:32]We meet Surachate Hakparn later in the evening.

[00:44:35]He tells us his version of events.

[00:46:34]Many questions remain unanswered. After two years of research, we found a number of witnesses who can confirm the bribe took place and we have strong evidence of a corrupt network in Pattaya.

[00:46:49]Surachate Hakparn took note of all this, but his mission is accomplished. The honor of his police force is restored. A status which spectacularly collapses a little later.

[00:47:05]In a coordinated big cleaning day operation involving the police cyber task force or PCT and armed commandos Following the raids, Police General Surachet questions the legality of the search warrants.

[00:47:19]Just a few weeks after our interview, the Thai media reported that the deputy police chief's home had been raided by an anti-corruption unit.

[00:47:27]Along with several other police officers, Hakparn was allegedly involved in an illegal online gambling operation believed to have laundered some 8 million euros.

[00:47:38]The first suspects of the illegal network were arrested. clarified that these events It's a scandal that's shaking the Thai justice system.

[00:47:48]Thailand's top police officer and self-proclaimed fighter against child prostitution has been Some weeks after the raid, he was suspended. The case will soon be heard in Thailand's Supreme Court.

[00:48:03]>> [music] >> A verdict has been reached in Frankfurt.

[00:48:10]The arrested German was sentenced to nine months on probation. He will not appeal.

[00:48:16]The relatively mild sentence can be explained as follows.

[00:48:19]Because no clear evidence was provided from Thailand that the youngest victim was 13 years old or younger, the man could only be convicted of abuse of minors, not child abuse.

[00:48:31]He's now at large but has a criminal record.

[00:48:38]The trial [music] and our research have revealed the weaknesses in international cooperation between authorities in the fight against child abuse.

[00:48:47]>> [music] >> Due to the dubious circumstance in which the victim's statements in Thailand were made alongside the conviction of the lead police investigator of corruption, the Thai authorities' files were difficult to use in the German court.

[00:49:13]The investigation files and witness statements from Thailand are crucial.

[00:49:18]But what happened to the girls involved in the case? We meet up again with Neung from the child protection organization.

[00:49:24]I have been informed by the reliable source that that the girl and including that the the girl the victim, they are at this very moment still under the custody of a Ban Kret Takarn.

[00:49:37]So uh are in the good hands right now. I was I believe. But unfortunately, the shelter can are able to provide services and rehabilitation up to only 18 years of age. And for majority of the occasions, we know that once they are released from the custody of the shelters, many of them go straight back to the prostitution again.

[00:50:01]We cannot solve the problem as a whole and this will keep continuing when it comes on the spotlight, you will see this full task force of officers barging in all the areas and within the next few months, it will go back to where it was.

[00:50:21]It's a sobering assessment, but one that's born out of what we've discovered in Pattaya.

[00:50:28]>> [music] >> The Cobra bar, where minors were forced into prostitution, is still closed. But the so-called mama-san, the barmaid who controls the business with the sex workers, has simply moved 200 m down the [music] road along with some of the staff and customers.

[00:50:54]The Japanese owner posts [music] videos from the new bar on the internet. The customers understand the signals.

[00:51:01]Quotes from the YouTube comments translated from Japanese.

[00:51:10]>> [music] [music] >> In the red light's dark shadows, exploitation is rampant. Thailand has yet to prove that it's serious about its fight against child prostitution.

[00:51:40]>> [music]