Whoring as a part of Thai Culture

[ThaiHome]

Every town in China as places that are even bigger then anything on Rachada. Major cities have hundreds of them.

They call them "suanas".

 

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[kamui]

When I visited quickly Yoshiwara I didn't have problems to enter....(of course my face might haved had something to do with that)

I liked the Soaplands in Japan better than MP in Thailand.

 

 

 

Drogon,

IMHO your face had everything to do with it. Most places are definitely off limit for Westerners, but I don't know about Asians.

 

Anyway, in Tokyo the police cleaned up the street scene almost completely. Neither in Kabukicho nor in Ikebukuro I could find any street walkers like I did a decade ago (at that time there were some very nice Thai girls to be found).

[kamui]

When I visited quickly Yoshiwara I didn't have problems to enter....(of course my face might haved had something to do with that)

I liked the Soaplands in Japan better than MP in Thailand.

 

 

 

Drogon,

IMHO your face had everything to do with it. Most places are definitely off limit for Westerners. Or maybe better said non Asians?

Anyway, in Tokyo the police cleaned up the street scene almost completely. Neither in Kabukicho nor in Ikebukuro I could find any street walkers like I did a decade ago (at that time there were some very nice Thai girls to be found).

[drogon]

Certainly, if I had my father's face I would probably not have been allowed to enter (gaijin)

 

Was the street scene that important in the past?

[kamui]

Certainly, if I had my father's face I would probably not have been allowed to enter (gaijin)

 

Was the street scene that important in the past?

I don't think so, compared to hundreds of brothels (I read about) in Kabukicho it was small scene.

But as often in Asia, it was about face, the whores on the streets where highly visible. I don't think that the police touched the brothels.

 

I haven't read ISG for a long time, but I remember that there were many stories by desperate Western punters in their search for P4P places with prices below 500-1000 USD for a shag.

[WorldFun]

I'm with the guys - although perhaps the most infamous BKK/Pattaya/Phuket/Samui is far from being the most extensive P4P offerings - in sheer numbers I hear India (Mumbai) is the sex capital, but for foreigners Jakarta probably is the closest to BKK in Asia with Jalan Waruk in Chinatown being the main MP/Rachada stretch where viagra or more correctly all it's offsprings openly are hawked along the street

Tokyo must be another major pleasure city, but as mentioned much less accesable to must of us - Hong Kong is up there as well as are Manila surely with it's pure sex dedicated base of Angeles to boot!

[Pom Michael]

Phil,

 

Why do men *need* to justify their mia nois?

 

That may just be your concept - but does it have to apply to others?

[PhilAnders]

 

i didn't say men *need* to justify anything.

 

nor did i imply men *should* justify anything.

 

i simply asked if *Thai* men did so by *saying* it was part of *their* culture.

 

more of a *cultural* **nature v. nurture** arguement, actually.

 

 

[PhilAnders]

 

mind you, the overuse of *astericks* in the previous post is weak *attempt* at humour.

 

cheers.

[Central Scrutinizer]

I'd say it is very much a part of Thai 'culture' and always has been and still is. Once you get out of the farang oriented tourist areas and spend some time in the rural areas, and in normal cities that have no or extremely little farang tourism, you see that nearly every city, town, village, hamlet have at least one venue the Thai men can buy sex from. Whether it is a brothel, a karaoke, a 'sing-a-song' club, a massage parlor, a pub, a disco, a twinkly light bar/whorehouse/knock shack in the boonies, freelancers at the train stations and bus depots, or the back room of a 7-11 type retail shop, they are everywhere and Thai men are the major bulk of the sex-scene punters in Thailand. Prostitution is a part of the culture, and it is everywhere if one knows where to look and what to look for. As is the mia noi culture and everything in between you can think of. There's a reason why there are so many ST 'no-tell motels' with the curtained parking spots as well. There is a reason most popular hotels used by Thai businessmen have a fishbowl massage parlor behind the premises too, or close nearby in a discrete location. Many businesses cater specifically to the cheating Thai men too: restaurants, hotels, motels, etc. Lots of these places in the outskirts of the cities and towns on the dark byways are there just for the Thai men to be 'discrete' in their philandering. It's big business. It's very prevelent.