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
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.
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?
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.