Then read his Facebook statement. I think you will find that it was actually Lloyd who said he had sex with sex workers in Thailand.
I’ve examined the 3 February FB statement. The relevant portions are 3b and 3c. 3b he relates that his “main reasons” for going to Thailand were really tourism related. If sex tourism were his main reason for going there, he would have gone to Bangkok. The implication is there that sex tourism was a factor in going, but not the main one.
In an attempt to swat away allegations of underage sex workers, he states for the record that all the people he met, “sex workers or otherwise”, they were all in their 20s. Impossible to know for sure, but whatever. Note the use of the plural - sex workers. He “met” more than one.
3c he addresses the notorious pics of him and the Thai girl. He states that she was also in her 20s and NOT a sex worker. So according to his own words, that makes at least 3 local girls he met - at least 2 sex workers and 1 non-sex worker who was sitting on his lap and taking flirty selfies with him.
Now go to the Andrew Gold interview - “I was dating a sex worker”. So there was another woman other than the one in the pics that WAS a sex worker and they were dating. Then there was at least one other sex worker he met but was not dating her.
Now he’s saying that he never paid for sex and only bought dinner for the sex worker he was dating. He has never said anything about the girl in the pic or the other sex workers.
Easiest way to look at this is he’s making shit up to disassociate himself from the Thai sex industry. We are meant to believe that a man who had been seeing sex workers every 2-3 months for 3-4 years was around these women who worked in the sex industry but not at any point paid these women for sex. I believe that in his effort to deflect attention away from the girl in the pics, he lied that she was not a sex worker he was exploiting and in his carelessness casually mentioned other sex workers, just not her. He got caught in his own lie and is doubling down by now claiming he only bought her dinner.