Go-go bars gone as coronavirus hits Bangkok's sex district via KuhakanJiraporn TostevinM
An 18+ sign is seen inside the Patpong museum at the nightlife and sex trade district, during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
“Even when it does reopen, customers will be worried about their safety,” she said at the BarBar club on Patpong’s Soi 2 street. BarBar and other clubs such as “Bada Bing” and “Fresh Boys” are shuttered and the nights are largely silent. “The go-go bar and its very one-dimensional concept of a stage and ladies dancing on it with a number. I think that’s already over, they just don’t know that yet.”The number of go-go bars in Patpong district has waned in recent years as business has moved to other parts of Bangkok or online and as sex tourism has become a smaller part of the overall tourism industry for Thailand.
BarBar is still paying some workers. But the manager of at least one go-go bar on Soi 2 just abandoned the lease. The lockdown has meant the whole sex industry has collapsed. Online escort service Smooci said activity in Bangkok fell to 10 percent in April.
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