Long Term Off

[frequent]

There’s a farang who keeps a boy and pays him far less than 500b. a day. He rationalizes that the boy doesn’t
have to pay rent or for food. The boy does have to cook and clean and provide sexual services and stay with
the farang pretty much 24 hours a day. This went on for years until one day the boy got into the farangs safe
and absconded with over 5000 euros
After a while the farang missed the lad and wanted the boy to return. I’ve heard the farang is a little more generous now.

An interesting international report out this week highlights wealth disparity in Thailand. According to the report 1% of the Thai population owns 66% of the wealth. The government and its apologists are unimpressed and are attempting to discredit it

[catawampuscat]

One more farang paying boy not enough anecdote. I asked a gogo boy in Sunee where he’d been as I hadn’t seen him recently.
He said he just quit taking care of a European farang, who paid him 500 b. a day. The boy felt the farang was cheap
as he required the boy to be with him every night for dinner and hours drinking in Jomtien bar beers.
No doubt the farang felt justified as he paid for dinner and all the drinks, but the boys don’t see it that way..

[frequent]

One more farang paying boy not enough anecdote. I asked a gogo boy in Sunee where he’d been as I hadn’t seen him recently.
He said he just quit taking care of a European farang, who paid him 500 b. a day. The boy felt the farang was cheap as he required the boy to be with him every night for dinner and hours drinking in Jomtien bar beers.
No doubt the farang felt justified as he paid for dinner and all the drinks, but the boys don’t see it that way..

It's a mentality I can't comprehend - paid companionship from someone with whom you have nothing in common, especially as the payer appears to believe he's generosity personified and his companion feels exploited

[Mancs]

What did you do for the other 23 hours?

Jet skiing, lunch, go go bars, shopping. It proved expensive.

[aot871]

One more farang paying boy not enough anecdote. I asked a gogo boy in Sunee where he’d been as I hadn’t seen him recently.
He said he just quit taking care of a European farang, who paid him 500 b. a day. The boy felt the farang was cheap
as he required the boy to be with him every night for dinner and hours drinking in Jomtien bar beers.
No doubt the farang felt justified as he paid for dinner and all the drinks, but the boys don’t see it that way..

It might sound cheap but how much would the boy earn on a building site or an Issan rice farm ? Im not sure it would be 15,000 amonth. plus he would have to pay for room food and drink. I have taken a boy before for a week and given him 10,000 . At the time he seemed happy

[sglad]

It might sound cheap but how much would the boy earn on a building site or an Issan rice farm ? Im not sure it would be 15,000 amonth. plus he would have to pay for room food and drink. I have taken a boy before for a week and given him 10,000 . At the time he seemed happy

You can't compare sex/escort work with farm work. If the guys wanted farm work wages they would have stayed on the farm. There's a whole body of academic study as to why sex work tends to be paid disproportionately higher for the same amount of labour expended compared to other types of work but I can't be bothered to look it up now.

[sglad]

One more farang paying boy not enough anecdote. I asked a gogo boy in Sunee where he’d been as I hadn’t seen him recently.
He said he just quit taking care of a European farang, who paid him 500 b. a day. The boy felt the farang was cheap
as he required the boy to be with him every night for dinner and hours drinking in Jomtien bar beers.
No doubt the farang felt justified as he paid for dinner and all the drinks, but the boys don’t see it that way..

Spending a few days with a John is still viewed as work by the sex worker and rightly so. The John might think that he is giving his rent boy a holiday or a break from regular sex work but the fact is he still has to compensate the sex worker for his time. In economics, it's called compensating for opportunity costs. What is the opportunity cost to the boy for spending his daylight hours with the John? His free time, his sleep-in time, his sanity, other work he could have taken up, social time with his friends, etc. What is the opportunity cost to the boy for spending his nocturnal hours with the John? Other, potentially more rewarding, customers. These are costs and therefore can be measured in monetary terms. The boys are not asking to be fed and they are not looking to stay in fancy hotels - they can buy their own food, pay for their own lodgings and go on trips with their friends with the 'salary' you are supposed to pay them. That is the point of them working for you - to MAKE MONEY.

Look at it another way: you make your staff attend an all-expenses paid, three-day company trip at some fancy resort - do you then deduct three days of their wages because you feel that you have already 'paid' them with the trip?

[arsenal]

Sglad wrote.
"his sanity"

Haha. Yes indeed. Except in very unusual circumstances the average Thai money boy finds the average farang dull after two hours. And actually for that matter, so do I.

[frequent]

Jet skiing, lunch, go go bars, shopping. It proved expensive.

So the true cost was more 10,000 baht per day?

[frequent]

It might sound cheap but how much would the boy earn on a building site or an Issan rice farm ? Im not sure it would be 15,000 amonth. plus he would have to pay for room food and drink. I have taken a boy before for a week and given him 10,000 . At the time he seemed happy

There's always a premium for sex work. In your own country the sex work hourly rate is likely to be 5+ times the hourly rate of the unskilled worker