When a foreigner is forced to pay sinsod, it's like the womans parents are selling their daughter like a pier of meat, or as a prostitute. It's just so ridiculous stupid if any foreign man would agree to this, no matter how desperate they are.
However, It is more common in poor areas like Isan, where my Thai wife, has said, that the parents are teaching their daughters to find a foreign husband to simply support them and their family. And usually these men are really older than the wife. And so it continues.
If you are going to find a Thai woman and marry her, at least make sure she has a university degree, and a good job, so she will and is working. That way, you won't have to support her sorry poor ass. And make sure, she doesn't come from a poor Thai family. At least middle class. I don't understand why so many foreign men would simply choose something that is of less social class then themselves?
Like if you have a high school diploma, that is not much, so why choose someone who only gone to school until they are maybe 13 years old? The same if you have gone to university, why choose someone of leas class without a university degree?
Okay, it's okay to have some fun with sex, but never give her money like a prostitute and never support her family's sick buffalo (which might be her mother) 🤣