It seems that whenever I mention my newfound fascination with Thailand, I am offered the following two statements:. But I can tell you a few titillating details about my first foray into the sex tradeโฆ. As we all know, Americans are obsessed with money and sex so all you hear about with regard to Thailand in mainstream media is health care bargains to be had and of course, the sex industry. Before I went to Thailand, I rented Globe Trekker and watched the rambunctious Ian Wright wandering about the sex district of Bangkok with a look of disgust on his face.
This area consists of one block for the straight guys buying and one half-block for the gay guys buying. It is, even by my gutter-based standards, how shall we sayโฆsleazy? But it is only a couple blocks and in fact, during the day this area is open for business with galleries, restaurants and non-sex related shops. Business people dine by day in what by night becomes a throbbing spectacle of pussy palaces and go-go bars.
Darren said they looked like snakes in a box. A guy approached us with a sandwich board of things like:. Outside of the movie Priscilla, where will we ever get to see this again?
I mean, if a woman can make a living at shooting balls out of her twat why does it have to be sleazy โ this could just be entertaining, we could be wearing suits and sipping martinis. There was not much happening on stage โ a couple women in bikinis were dancing. Maybe we had arrived at intermission. We were immediately offered bar stools at the stage-side bar and a beer was placed in front of us.
No less that 6 women with long, sharp fingernails began to flirt with us and massage our necks with their fingertips. Suddenly the bartender demanded baht. Darren and I were covered with pointy-nailed women poking at us like wasps stinging ripe fruit.
