WTF in Jomtien Complex

[Blacktouch]

Well said a447.

So true what you said.

[bobsaigon2]

If, on the other hand, an elderly guy (say in his mid 70's) wishes his whole life to revolve around paying a different prostitute for sex every night (and sometimes right after a cheap lunch) then that's just dandy as well - but don't try to pass it off as a virtue or something that decent people should aspire to.

SG, you seem to be saying that a decent person would not hire a different boy every night for sex. Or did I mis-read you?

[scottish-guy]

No Bob, you didn't mis-read me at all

Decent : Conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour. Source: OED

So, I suspect a man in his mid-70's paying a different prostitute each night for sex (each one being "young enough to be his grandchild" as Frequent would say) and behaving in that way over prolonged periods (rather than just going a bit mad on holiday) would hardly qualify as "decent" behaviour in most people's opinion.

"Predatory" maybe - but "decent"? I fear not.

Of course it's probably perfectly acceptable within a community of dissolute reprobates and raddled old queens - I couldn't possibly comment!

[arsenal]

We were all 30 once although it's considerably further back for many here than it is for me. Cast you mind back to that age. How many men in their late retirement years did you meet and think.

'Yea, I really fancy him. He's so handsome.' Exactly...none. So it folows there must be another reason why the Asian 'boyfriend' hangs around. It starts with m and ends with y.

[scottish-guy]

Well, that may of course be your experience (I suspect it is) - but I can cast my mind back to when I was a teenager and my occasional frustration and dismay when other teenagers I had my eye on went off with guys in their 40s and 50s and where there was absolutely no money involved.

Not "late retirement age" I'll grant you but then 'some' here are not only closer to retirement age than I am but are about 90% of the way through it - and despite having one ball in the grave it seems they still haven't managed to find anybody (in their right mind) who can stick them for any longer than it takes for a short-time.

[Brad the Impala]

So it folows there must be another reason why the Asian 'boyfriend' hangs around. It starts with m and ends with y.

I know that Manuka honey is very popular these days, but I had no idea that it was that popular!

[paborn]

My Way was my favourite Bangkok bar for years in the '90s. While other bars were becoming interchangeable in appearance, it had its own unique, rather cosy atmosphere - wooden Thai seating, Burmese tapestries, pole-dancing gogo boys. I went there often especially after I became very attached to one of the boys. The bespectacled Thai (Thai-Chinese?) owner always sat impassively behind the bar entering every drink and off into a ledger. I'd get the faintest of smiles from him in response to my nod on entering. He seemed almost like a non-person to me, though the boys seemed to respect him. I recall the boy I liked telling me with an incredulous look one time that he had received a 50 baht New Year's gift from the owner - not sure if that was because of the stinginess of the amount or its existence at all.

The other source of discipline in the bar back then was Charlie, the overweight mamasan. I'd go through an elaborate charade of being friendly with him, though he was one dodgy-looking geezer and I wouldn't have trusted him with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire. The boys were expected to service him. I recall my boy telling me with a big smile that it was like fucking a fat pig (well, he was from a farming family). The last time I saw Charlie, after an interval of two or three years, he looked almost unrecognisably gaunt and sick and I believe he died of Aids. The bar did indeed go rapidly downhill in its last years and it came as no surprise when I found it had closed permanently.

Back in the 80's My Way was famous - perhaps the best known bar in Bangkok. The pole dancers were well trained and fantastic gymnasts.

[scottish-guy]

A 50B bonus in the 1990's might not have been that bad - I recall being in the original Screw Boy bar at shutting time in the early 2000's and the boss (Porn) was doling out the nights wages to the gogo boys who had been 'working' since about 7 or 8pm.

I can't remember the exact amount each received but it was well under 100B per boy

[arsenal]

I believe Manuka honey is Thai ryming slang. As in "My 'boyfriend' is foolish enough to send me lots of Manuka honey every month. Hahaha."

[bobsaigon2]

So, I suspect a man in his mid-70's paying a different prostitute each night for sex (each one being "young enough to be his grandchild" as Frequent would say) and behaving in that way over prolonged periods (rather than just going a bit mad on holiday) would hardly qualify as "decent" behaviour in most people's opinion.

"Predatory" maybe - but "decent"? I fear not.

What are you objecting to -- the age disparity or the frequency of the sexual encounters? Do you also disapprove if the farangs are in their mid-40's or mid-50's ? Would they also fail to qualify as "decent" ?

Also, "predatory" does not seem to be an appropriate word when discussing commercial sex .