A Woman Has Been Arrested In Thailand For Having Sex With Buddhist Monks And Blackmailing Them With Sex Tapes
Yahoo News - At least nine Thai monks have been disrobed after sleeping with an alleged blackmailing seductress who extorted them for millions of pounds.
Wilawan Emsawat, 35, was said to have enticed a string of monks to break their vows of celibacy before pressuring them into paying large sums of money to cover up the intimacy.
The scandal, which has gripped Thailand and rocked its Buddhist institutions, has sparked calls to tighten monk-related laws in order to restore faith in the religion.
Jaroonkiat Pankaew, a police commissioner, said the investigation began last month after an abbot of a famous temple in Bangkok abruptly left the monkhood.
Ms Wilawan, known by the nickname Golf, was said to have seduced the abbot before telling him she was pregnant and asking for 7.2m baht (£165,000) in child support.
She was arrested on Tuesday at her luxury home outside Bangkok on suspicion of crimes including extortion, money laundering and receiving stolen goods.
Five phones owned by Ms Wilawan contained videos and photos of her having sex with numerous monks, some of whom were wearing their religious robes, according to the police’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB).
The material, along with chat logs indicating sexual acts with monks, could be used for blackmail, the bureau said.
Officers claimed she had deliberately targeted senior monks for financial gain, and that they had traced money transferred to her by a senior monk from a bank account belonging to a temple.
“This woman is dangerous and we needed to arrest her as soon as possible,” Mr Jaroonkiat said at a press conference in the Thai capital.
Ms Wilawan’s bank accounts received around 385m baht (£8.8m) in the past three years, but most of the funds were spent on online gambling websites, police said.
Namaste you old horn dogs you!
Get a good look at this temptress, 35-year-old Wilawan “Golf” Emsawat. Because that's the face of a woman so seductive she managed to turn at least nine monks from celibacy to cell-ebacy as in, they’re now ex-monks holding their robes in one hand and lawyer’s business cards in the other.
Golf allegedly slid into these monks’ DMs (yes, even monks are on social media, proving no one is safe from the thirst traps of 2025), seduced them, hooked up with them in their robes, filmed it, and then extorted them for millions.
Millions!
And they paid!
To hide the fact that they, the spiritual paragons of Thailand, were out there acting like they were on an episode of The Bachelor: Buddhist Edition.
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Golf wasn’t just running your average OnlyFans blackmail hustle, this was high-level religious espionage. Police raided her "luxury home" (obviously) and found five phones jam-packed with spicy monk content. Videos, selfies, chat logs, even footage of them in their holy robes. All dogging her out. I mean, I’d say “you can’t make this up,” but honestly, Netflix probably already optioned the rights by the time I'm writing this.
The abbot of a famous Bangkok temple was so spooked that that he quit the monkhood entirely. Now, he's "in the wind".
Golf’s accounts reportedly saw over 385 million baht (about $11.9 million) roll in over three years, most of which went to online gambling. I don’t know what’s wilder:- monks paying hush money, or the fact that Golf blew it all betting on cricket and digital roulette.
Thai media coverage has framed the monks as helpless victims (please), while Golf is painted as some kind of Jezebel-whore who singlehandedly toppled "the moral foundation of Theravada Buddhism".
(Sidebar - we interrupt this monk sex blog to bring you this obligatory Caddyshack scene)
One Thai op-ed even thanked Golf for exposing the filth. These monks weren’t exactly living humble, rice-and-water lifestyles.
We’re talking luxury cars, cash transfers, gold bars, and, in one case, a head monk claiming someone stole 10 million baht in cash and gold from his room.
Totally normal monk stuff.
The fuckin Prime Minister has called for new laws around "monk behavior" and "temple finances". Which is pretty much like installing an alarm system after the burglars have cleaned out the safe. And completely overblown. And obnoxious.
How about you mind your own business.
And let these guys live a little.
So what they rain a train on some double-crossing sex worker? They didn't hurt anybody. If anything, they were the ones hurt! They have already learned their lesson by being extorted out of millions of baht. You don't think they'll be thinking twice the next time they need to get their rocks off? You bet your ass they will. JJO always.
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Sure, all those kind tourists who donated money they thought was going to help evangelize and spread the teachings of Buddha actually wound up in some shady bookie's bank account. It's the circle of life. Read a Buddhism book for me one time.
But real talk, the main thing I want to know is if we can't expect the freaking monks to keep it in their pants, then who can we? We are a doomed planet full of slaves to smut indeed.
p.s.- I don't know why my brain is wired as fucked up as it is. But this made me think of the infamous Mike Cooper OSU library video for some reason. Hit one of the greatest internet 1.0 videos of all time.