A California State University at Northridge professor has been under scrutiny in regards to his personal website, which gives readers tips on the Thailand sex scene.
Professor Kenneth Ng’s website, known as BigBabyKenny.com, which provides Thai restaurant and other tourism venue reviews, also features a “Lexicon of the Thailand Girl Scene:” a dictionary-type list of terms commonly found in the Thailand sex and bar scene.
For example, “G-Girling” is a term in the lexicon that refers to “the process of shopping for and entering into sponsoring relationships with the girls who work at [a club in Thailand],” according to BigBabyKenny.com.
California State University at Northridge has no plans to either punish Ng or ask him to take down his website, California State University at Northridge spokesperson Joseph Attunes said.
However, former chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in the US Department of Justice Patrick Trueman said Ng could potentially be headed down a slippery slope.
“I have not seen the website myself, but I do know that there is potential for more trouble than bargained for in this case,” Trueman said. “This kind of site is protected by the First Amendment, but Congress has statutes in place to stem the tide against soliciting sex related acts.”
Trueman said he believed there was a slight possibility there could be an investigation into the website operation, but because the university has not made any moves, he thinks it is unlikely anything will happen.
Ng created the website after touring Thailand a number of times himself and began blogging on his experiences shortly thereafter. His posts advised would-be tourists where the prime locations were for various forms of entertainment, but do not solicit any vulgar activities of any form.
He created the blog in an act of defiance against the Big Mango Bar of Thailand, whose blog he had occasionally written for. He had written a piece against the bar’s brothel-style business operation and they censored his work.
“I was driven to get back at places like the Big Mango,” Ng said. “And that is why I created the blog.”
To restore their tarnished name, the Big Mango Bar struck out at Ng by contacting the California newspapers, as well as his work colleagues in an attempt to slander Ng’s name and personal life. The university calmly addressed the Big Mango saying Ng had a right to free speech and that after viewing his blog, found nothing that was in violation of the law.
“To make matters worse, the Big Mango was hit with financial hardship and was forced to close. Part of the reason they lashed out at me was to get back at me for ‘ruining their business,'” Ng said.
The tension reached a new level when the Big Mango threatened to litter California State University at Northridge campus with flyers claiming Ng to be a pedophile that advocates prostitution, Ng said. Ng has also received death threats from Big Mango management.
He said he has no plans to shut the blog down and said his “campaign against censorship” will continue into the foreseeable future.
