Age

Even though some people age differently than others. We cannot deny that age plays an important role in dictating physical appearances. The median age for Thai prostitutes is 23 years old. The youngest start as early as 18 years old, the legal age for consensual sex (not that it matters because prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand anyways); the oldest age is 45 years old.

Beyond Happy Massages

We explore the most popular services provided and unsurprisingly such basic activities as sex, blowjob, woman-on-top, and groping come out on top, whereas more fetish-ish activities like drinking the semen, taking pictures, anal and swinging stay at the bottom. Despite some minor variations, popularity rankings of services tend to remain the same across location clusters.

When we look at the number of sex workers performing each service, Ladprao-Ramkamhaeng’s dominace as a prostitution hot spot truly shines. For any service, Ladprao-Ramkamhaeng has the largest number of prostitutes performing it. Downtown comes in close second while Kaset-Ratchayothin and Donmuang-Rangsit trail behind.

It’s About The Money, Money, Money

Location Clusters

Bangkok prostitutes of all clusters charge a standard (median) price of around 1,500THB (about 40USD) per deed. Notable exceptions include the suburban Donmuang-Rangsit area whose upper quantile is substantially lower than the rest; this coincides with the area’s lower average income. On the other hand, the Downtown area has the widest range of prices, possibly to cater to a variety of customers.

Gender Diversity

Another interesting dimension is the price discrimination according to gender. Thailand is one of the world’s most socially, though regrettably not legally, open places to gender diversity. Yet, be it demand-supply equilibrium or blatant homophobia, gay prostitutes seem to be making a lot than their straight counterparts. Ladyboy sex workers who have undergone sex change operations can charge closer to the female ones (82 cents for a dollar on average); the same cannot be said for those who have not (60 cents for a dollar on average). Butches are excluded due to small sample size. Straight male also, perhaps more understandably, earn 70 cents on average for each dollar straight female earn.

Getting In Touch

LINE is King

Over 70% of the communication in the Bangkok prostitution industry is done through the instant messaging app LINE. Telephone number accounts for 60% of the contacts provided. And believe it or not, 10% of the prostitutes also list their emails.

Marketing Tips For Prostitutes

Winner Takes All

Selling your body in Bangkok is a cut-throat business. 50% of prostitutes gets less than 40 views on their profiles per day, and 90% of them gets less than 300 views per day. This means that 10% of the super divas makes up of more than 45% of the total views per day.

Useful Features

In order to dig deeper into the dynamics of the industry, we performed gradient boosted regression and computed the relative influences of each feature. Since we lack some of the most important features such as beauty, our model ends up explaining only around 10% of the variations. Nonetheless, it is worth looking at the 20 features with a significant level of relative influences.