Woman seduces monks to have sex with her, films it for extortion

A Thai socialite is in police custody after she allegedly seduced Buddhist monks and filmed herself having s£x with them for blackmail.

Thirty-five-year-old Wilawan Emsawat, known by the nickname Sika Golf, bedded a whopping 13 monks and extorted eye-popping £9 million (about N18 billion) from them.

Thai Monks are mostly members of the Theravada sect and are forbidden to even touch a woman, much less get involved in intimacy with them.

Monks are believed to maintain a high level of personal discipline and self-control that they can rarely succumb to the immorality or pleasure-giving activities that trip up an average man.

However, Wilawan seemed to know the secret to disarming them as she had managed to penetrate even the hierarchy of the monastery order.

According to Bangkokbiznews, Emsawat specialised in targeting senior religious figures and using footage of her escapades with them to extort millions of pounds from them to maintain her lavish lifestyle.

A highly revered abbot of Bangkok’s Wat Tri Thotsathep Worawihan temple, Arch Phra Thep Wachirapamok, suddenly renounced his monkhood in June this year and vanished across the border into Laos.

It was not known at the time that Emsawat had penetrated his defences. It later emerged that the real reason for his mysterious action was that the 53-year-old religious figure had been bedded by Emsawat.

She later told him she was pregnant and would need a huge sum of £179,000 from him. Wachirapamo called her bluff, and she released details of their liaison to his colleagues.

Wachirapamo fled the country in disgrace.

Upon her arrest, Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) officers reviewed Emsawat’s mobile devices and found five with clips and stills of her engaged in s£xual acts with several priests, some of whom were still wearing their traditional orange robes during the acts.

A total of nine monks have now been disrobed following the scandal, out of a total of 13 implicated.

More heads are expected to roll as investigations continue into the high-profile scandal.

Thai lawmakers are now considering making sex with monks a criminal offence to protect the order, but activists are kicking against it.

Women’s rights activists argue that the blame for sexual indiscretions should lie with the men and not be shifted to the women they are engaged in the act with.

Sanitsuda Ekachai, a columnist for the Bangkok Post, came down hard on what she calls ‘a system of lies and hypocrisy among top monks’.

She alleged that women had for ages been depicted as “enemies” of monks’ spiritual purity, adding that now that the scandal had exposed the clergy’s moral decay, efforts were being made to shift the blame away from the decadent monks onto the women.

Some more monks are believed to have stepped forward since the scandal broke to confess that they had a thing with the ultimate seductress. Some had been sleeping with her for many years.

This is in violation of their vows, and they are all expected to be derobed in accordance with Buddhist laws.