Some very basic rules of etiquette can be found at sunsite.au.ac.th
These are rules any tourist should be aware of.
Appropriate clothing during Songkran should be added to the list.
Some fabrics, especially white become almost see through when wet.
Songkran is a religious festival, not a western style wet T-shirt contest.
When it comes to public behavior, Thais are extremely conservative.
This rule is even more stringent for Thai public personalities.
There was quite an uproar a few years ago when a Thai actress wore an overly revealing dress to a major public event. Now the uproar is over a Thai Boxer.
According to Worapoj Petchkoom, a Thai Olympic silver-medalist, he thought he was being paid for a fashion shoot, but wound up on the covers of a gay magazine.
It's a case of plain old stupidity, lack of management, which has him suspended from compeeting for a number of months. He's not gay! The pictures are a bit on the sensuous side, not pornographic.
If the pictures would have appeared in a fashion magazine, or a woman's magazine, I doubt there would have been any fuss at all, just a few raised eyebrows.
Read more at The Philippine Star and Outsports(photo)
The sanction seems a bit extreme. That's my opinion.
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