Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources vows to press charges against two unidentified men whose snaps of their risque photoshoot in a mangrove forest went viral on Facebook yesterday.
The mysterious duo chose to conceal their faces but, ahem… let the rest all hang out in the photos, and will subsequently face charges of obscenity as well as computer crimes for leaking their photos onto the Internet, if they’re caught.
It’s not all fun and games, since the punishment for uploading pornography into the publicly-accessible system of the World Wide Web carries a punishment of a five-year jail term and/or a fine of up to THB100,000 (US$3,100).
A Thai Facebook page “Meesa” shared the censored version of the photos in question, and made it a point to say that these men are seemingly not afraid of the law, as the story reached all the way to national Marine and Coastal officials.
The page alleged that the duo are exhibitionists who may have previously publicly carried out naked photoshoots in other forests.
Meanwhile, local newspaper Thairath reported that the photos were likely reposted from a closed Facebook group for gay men.
Marine and Coastal Director-General Jatuporn Burutpat told reporters that a mangrove forest that served as the duo’s background is located near Ee-aep Mountain in Phetchaburi province.
Jatuporn made notes that the area is supposed to serve those who want to study nature — not naturists.
Exploring mangrove fetishes in Thai photography isn’t new thing. Another woman was fined in 2015 for posing nude in a different mangrove forest outside of Bangkok.
There are, however, proponents of the idea that naturism — if practiced discretely and legally — can provide emotional therapy and a break from the pressures of a materialistic society. Read Coconuts’ exclusive feature on a nudist community in Bangkok here.
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