Gogo Bangkok - Chiang Mai - Pattaya

[Oliver2]

The screaming is unbearable....and totally unnecessary. It is an act, a manifestation of the demi-monde the khatoeys inhabit -a way of displaying membership. And not all khatoeys behave like that.

P's oldest friend ((and cousin), whom I've known for fifteen years, slowly changed from being a cute but rather camp guy of twenty- plus to a khatoey over a period of ten years. Much to P's dismay. No ops but lots of hormone tablets or whatever they're called. She sometimes has dinner with us accompanied by khatoey friends from the guys- for- Thai ladies- bar where she now works, very profitably; and their behaviour is exemplary. Thank God.

She sometimes performs a funny, self-mocking act on stage at competitions in which she is able to lampoon the more extreme types of behaviour which are so annoying. But it's an act. Just as it is for the screamers in Boyztown- and even more so in Patong.