Thai Police Conduct New Sex Toy Raid

Thai Police Conduct New Sex Toy Raid

BANGKOK — Thai police have arrested two people for running an underground sex toy business, seizing from their home over 18,000 pleasure products, which are illegal in Thailand.

Police Colonel Patpawit Wongpinit, a superintendent with the Technology Crime Suppression Division, announced the arrest of 28-year-old Chinese national Huang Faling and his 24-year-old Thai wife, Piyanan. The couple was apprehended in a house they owned in Lat Krabang district, Bangkok, after the execution of a search warrant revealed it was used to warehouse their inventory.

The couple had registered their business as a “massage equipment” retailer.

According to local press reports, during questioning, the couple admitted to having been in the business for three years, generating 10 million baht (around $270,000) in revenue.

In April this year, Thailand’s conservative Democrat Party stated its intention to legalize sex toys in the country, appealing to health benefits beyond sexual pleasure. The party also noted that while sex toys are currently illegal in Thailand, they are being smuggled into the country due to demand, the Bangkok Post reported.

Ratchada Thanadirek, an executive member of the Democrat Party, argued that “legalizing sex toys would help reduce the rate of sex crimes and the number of products illegally smuggled from overseas, which lack quality control and can sometimes cause infections among users,” CNN reported.

U.S. Politicians Also Have Sought to Outlaw Sex Toys

Conservative lawmakers in the U.S. have expressed interest in criminalizing sex toys, or enforcing laws already on the books. Back when he was Texas’ solicitor general, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz infamously wrote a 76-page legal brief defending banning the sale of sex toys.

In the 2007 brief to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, Cruz and his team argued that “the plaintiffs challenging the law, a group of online retailers and Austin stores that sold sex toys, were not protected under the 14th Amendment’s right to privacy. In fact, he continued, banning obscene devices was in the public interest, and the government should be granted ‘police powers’ for the purposes of ‘discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors.’ Furthermore, using ‘obscene devices,’ the state argued, was akin to ‘hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy,’” Vanity Fair reported in 2016.

Cruz also argued that “there is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”

Cruz’s argument failed, and that particular Texas anti-sex-toy law was eventually overturned in a narrow 2-1 decision by the judicial panel.

According to legal experts, several state laws criminalizing sex toys are still on the books, including in Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, although enforcement is rare. The Alabama anti-sex-toy law is still enforced, however.

Main Image: Thai police posing with seized sex toys during a 2021 sting operation.

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