My favourite question that lloyd side stepped was whether prostitution was illegal in Croatia
Then he goes on Andrew Gold's podcast in an attempt to extricate himself out of the Thailand sex trafficking quandary and says that he had only been "dating" one there. In the process he admits to seeing prostitutes in Croatia "and other countries", just not Thailand. Never. They were dating.
It's like the Crisis of Conscience debacle. He denies something that is undeniably true and confesses to what he considers as a lesser crime. He's an absolute dunce because the lesser crime also happens to be a pretty shitty thing to do, and he comes across as a liar anyways in denying the first allegation with the ridiculous assertion he was "dating".
If he were intent on perpetuating the lie (which he was/is), he would have been sharp enough to shift his narrative to Amsterdam where sex work is highly regulated. It seems he was playing on people's ignorance in thinking Croatia was not also a highly sex trafficked nation.