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Worapoj Petchkoom (วรพจน์ เพชรขุ้ม) is not the only Thai boxing star to have posed for a gay magazine.
Remember the saga of former Thai boxing champion Sirimongkol Singwancha (ศิริมงคล สิงห์วังชา)?
In 2005 he was convicted of producing pornography after naked images of him appeared in a gay magazine, Heat.
The images were taken 10 years before, and the naked ones were not supposed to go public. He posed without clothes in fun for the photographers’ private viewing, he said.
Heat published them in 2003, but they did not become widely known until two years later, after police raided a newsstand selling naughty mags at Chatuchak market.
About the same time, he posed for a swimsuit spread in Lips, a magazine popular with women and gays.
Read more about the saga at the Fridae website, here (link harvested: it died). I loved this excerpt, which I suspect comes from one of Bangkok’s English-language dailies:
'Sopon Petsawang, an MP from the government ruling party Thai Rak Thai and a former boxer himself, was quoted as saying that as far as he was aware, only transvestites or transgenders read the magazines, and expressed sadness that an increasing number of divorced women and older women are viewing them as well.'
See the images, here.
2 comments:
ReplyDeleteAnonymous3 August 2009 at 12:55
Just wondering if chef maiyuu is buff, lean or petite...lol.
Nice blog...hope to hear some Mario news.
Thanks :)
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Anonymous3 August 2009 at 13:57
Transvestites, transgenders, divorced women and older women. Hmmm, which one am I then? Aunty? Most of my foreign magazines back in the day (before the internet) came from Bangkok street sellers. Good stuff too. Still got most of them, and none of the pages ever got stuck together. :) Ian
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