With a heavy dose of kink, Bangkok clinic-cum-gallery prescribes better sexual health

Out front, dipped in pink neon, the words “SEX SHOP” indicated that Bangkok had a new downtown purveyor of taboo products.

Inside, there were paintings of a figure in a cop hat nibbling on the balls of a large penis. Another depicted a naked man sitting in deep thought atop a toilet with his orange underwear down to his ankles and holding a red-hot telephone with one of his four arms.

A large painting in the middle featured five women clad in bondage gear, holding paddle boards and a leather flail.

Instead of a sex shop, visitors found a provocative exhibition at what was actually an art gallery with a positive message on sex and sexual health. 

Following its “Kinky BKK” opening, Pulse Gallery’s new Phloen Chit location, which also contains a sexual health clinic, is now hosting an exhibition aimed at eradicating the stigma surrounding HIV and…