Published: 2/04/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
AYUTTHAYA: Police are investigating a new form of underground lottery with a top prize of sex with a young woman.
Complaints have been received about a huai sieow (erotic lottery) operation, said to be gaining in popularity among male factory workers in the old capital, said Prawut Thavornsiri, spokesman for the Royal Thai Police (RTF) yesterday.
All police stations in the jurisdictions of Ayutthaya and officials with the RTF's Children, Juveniles and Women Division have been ordered to launch an investigation into whether such sexual lottery tickets are being sold in the province.
The erotic lottery is the first of its kind in Thailand, Pol Maj Gen Prawut said.
A source familiar with the lottery said the tickets are numbered from 00 to 99 and are sold for 30 baht each.
The lottery results are announced in parallel with the government's two-digit lottery in each fortnightly draw.
For each draw, there are two to four winners who are asked to choose the woman they want to bed from a photo catalogue of female sex workers aged between 18 and 25.
The source said customers are required to have sex with their chosen woman at a hotel provided by the lottery host within three days, or their prize will be revoked.
Jirapan Pimpan, Ayutthaya Provincial Cultural Council president, condemned the lottery operators as immoral people for valuing women's dignity at just 30 baht.
Source - The Bangkok Post
Comments - Never ceases to amazes me what they will come up with.
