The only guide you need to prepare for a trip to Thailand! Find out about visas, insurance, vaccinations, currencies, SIM cards, airport taxis and loads more. Based on that some people assume the dating scene here must be all foreign men dating younger Thai women often with financial transactions involved.
Keep reading to learn all about sex, love, and relationships in Thailand, plus where to meet potential mates, common pitfalls, cultural issues, and more. In relationships in Thailand where at least one of the partners is a foreigner, by far the most common dynamic is a foreign man dating a Thai woman.
These relationships span a spectrum of age, class, education and power dynamics. They also range from one-night stands to lifelong marriages, and covering everything in between. Thailand is an incredibly diverse and dynamic country with expats and long-term travelers from all over the world, especially Western and Asian countries. It happens all the time that they meet, hook up, date, and often, marry. Lots of foreign women in Thailand are looking for partners and as mentioned above, plenty of them meet and get involved with other foreigners.
There are also plenty of foreign women in relationships of all kinds with Thai men, though admittedly it probably only happens once for every relationships with the sexes reversed.
Fairly or not, men who might not be able to find an attractive partner in their home country are able to do so here, so it sort of puts things out of alignment. Thailand has a pretty vibrant gay scene β among Thais in bigger cities, and for foreign LGBTQ travelers in many destinations. Often this overlaps, and gay male Thai-foreigner relationships are incredibly common. Really the only super rare relationship model here is Thai-foreigner lesbian couples.
