Many things are right in Thailand. It's cheap, friendly, safe, and, for all practical aspects, easy for foreigners. It even has one of the best sexual orders in the world. The government, society in general, the law, and the police all interfere very little with what sexual arrangements men and women make among themselves. For this reason, the country rightly deserves the label "Land of the Free".

While many Thais are in life-long sexual relationships, many others (more than people in neighboring countries) have relationships that last anything from a few hours to a few years. This is probably biologically appropriate, and it certainly is sexually appropriate. It's how things are if they are allowed to develop naturally.

Thai women, on average, have a preference for men who are rich enough to support a good life for them. Nothing wrong with that either.

Now for the wrongs, from the perspective of foreigners.

By and large, in the eyes of Thai women, the sexual market value of foreign men in Thailand is lower than that of Thai men. Young Thai women usually prefer Thai men over foreigners. Foreigners, however, are considered by Thai women who have a harder time finding Thai mates.

This includes divorcees with children (there are many of those), or Thai women who are in general less attractive to Thai men (overly large women), or woman beyond their mid-30s. Those Thai women who have few prospects of finding a permanent mate among Thai men will usually be open for love relationships with foreign men.

These "wrongs" are in contrast to what you find in the Philippines and Indonesia. In both of these countries, foreign men have, in the eyes of local women, a higher sexual market value than local men. Foreign men, therefore, can pick the most attractive local women, as they usually do. It even is a common occurrence in both countries that a beautiful young local women dumps a local boyfriend when a foreigner is interested in her.

Such a setting of course is very disturbing for the local male population. Which is why, especially in the Philippines, you find both: a strong anti-foreign male sentiment among local males (absent in Thailand, as foreigners anyway only consort with those Thai women in whom Thai men have little interest) and a strange legislation directed particularly against sexual relationships between foreign men and Filipinas.

I admit that this kind of legislation is probably needed to tune down the attractiveness of Philippine women, as otherwise, the Philippines would just be too fantastic a destination for foreign men. On the other hand, in Thailand, this kind of legislation isn't needed because the sexual market value of foreign men is by and large below the sexual market value of Thai men.