Some gogo boys asking 6000 bht for overnight,,a joke yes?

[Armando]

I've read across the forums grumbles from expats about tourists making life difficult by paying more than the going rate. Is there really a going rate? isn't the sex business just a market like most other business? Or do expats residing here expect they are entitled to a lower rate while tourists pay what they like?

As an aside, presently the cinema in Bangkok's Sam Yan shopping mall is showing an excellent Japanese gay movie "Egoist" which I thought was superb. Without giving the plot away it touches on exactly Latintopxxx's comment about the minimum wage. And btw the younger of the two guys is aggressively cute! Some good sex scenes too.

[bkkmfj2648]

I've read across the forums grumbles from expats about tourists making life difficult by paying more than the going rate. Is there really a going rate? isn't the sex business just a market like most other business? Or do expats residing here expect they are entitled to a lower rate while tourists pay what they like?

After living here as a new expat retiree for 18 months - I would say that there is a 3-tier pricing system:

- Thais who pay their escorts at a rate which tends to be 50% the price that us expats pay,
- Expats - who want to pay the non tourist price because we live here and we know what the expected expat price should be,
- Tourists - who pay the expat price or an inflated priced due to:
- their naïvete (lack of experience in the local escort market),
- come from Japan, South Korea, or China and will just pay more (why I am not sure - but when I ask my local massage friends they say the the first 2 tip on the high end),
- got money to burn (from saving for a long time) on their 2 week holiday and don't care what it costs.....