Good Sex for All: How Bangkok is confronting Thailand’s greatest taboo

Story by Angela Symons

Despite its reputation as a free-wheeling never-never land, Bangkok doesn’t necessarily have a healthy relationship with sex. But that could be changing. 

“I speak directly. I use the words ‘pussy’ and ‘dick’ — I just blurt them out,” said Chitlada “Kui” Promlumpuk, who is known among her friends as Thailand’s answer to Samantha Jones, the sex-positive protagonist of HBO’s Sex and the City.

Her candor contradicts a quietly held truth, as she knows.

“Sex is not something people talk about openly,” she said.

Kui was thrust into the spotlight last year when the hugely popular media platform Echo asked her to host a sex toy review video. The response was unprecedented. It became Echo’s top video of the year, racking up 8.3 million views and thousands of overwhelmingly positive comments.

This is despite the fact…