Lost: Cherry.
I had the pleasure of entertaining a Bangkok Virgin recently. A Bangkok Virgin being, of course, a gentleman on his first visit to Bangkok.
There’s something special about seeing someone experience the scene here for the first time. The thousand-yard stare. The permanently slack jaw. The big grin when it slowly dawns on him that only a simple matter of economics stands between him and carnal relations with any number of friendly girls whose beauty would have long rendered them snooty and undesirable back home. Not to mention far more expensive.
I guess it takes me back to my own first time in Bangkok - when everything was confusing, astonishing, insane and enthralling, all at once. Nowadays, we just shrug when we pass an elephant on the street, on our way to a blow-job bar. Showing someone around for the first time can help us to relive that first rush of awe.
One Way Street
But there’s another issue to be dealt with here, and it’s one that’s rarely discussed. Because when you experience the sex scene of Bangkok for the first time, it absolutely and irrevocably changes your life forever.
We have prostitutes back in the UK. I’m sure you have them in your home country too. But I’m pretty sure that the majority of you never considered using their services - at least not before you experienced Thailand.
Back home, prostitution was a sleazy, sordid practice, where rough-looking drug-addled women would be picked up by men in dirty raincoats, and the whole unpleasant situation would be carried out behind closed doors. If someone admitted to such a habit in the pub, even his fellow men would probably turn on him. Any women present would be outraged.
But out in the circus of lower Sukhumvit, it’s all out in the open. Everyone else is doing it. So why not? By night, we prowl the bars, the massage parlours, and yes, the street corners. By day we share sordid tales of what we got up to the night before with our mates. We compare notes, costs, and perhaps even recommend girls to our friends.
In the blink of an eye, commerical sex has metamorphosed from a dirty secret to an acceptable hobby. Some people take longer than others to get over their Western attitude, but spend enough time here and it will happen. You change, and I’m not sure you can ever change back.
The other difference is, of course, the realisation that even the most attractive of these women can be had far more cheaply and easily than their counterparts back home. The sudden realisation that, as long as you have at least a modest income, celibacy is never again going to be a concern. You remember the six-month barren patch you had in 1998, and realise that you are never, ever going to have to go more than a few days at most without getting laid.
Is it Fair?
It was a no-brainer in this most recent situation. The friend in question had already assured me that he was going to be sampling the bars anyway. So my acting as a guide really was genuinely helpful.
But I had another visitor a little while ago, who was pretty much completely ignorant of Bangkok’s nightlife and bars. He really was here for the food, the markets and the temples. We took him to Soi Cowboy, where he seemed unable to cope with the fact that some of the most attractive women he’d laid eyes on were literally begging him to take them home.
He managed to resist their charms, but the experience clearly had an effect on him. Every time he embarks on a relationship back home, he may well cast his mind back to the time when he could have slept with someone several times more attractive within moments of meeting her. And for less money than his first dinner date with his new flame back home.
Bangkok changes you. Permanently.
Bangkok changes you. Permanently.
Thankyou God!!!!!
View all comments by chicagobob
Amen!
Im lucky i stumbled across BKK at age of just 20 and it turned my life upside down in a good-way. i went back to UK for 18months and just couldnt readapt - dont get me wrong the whoring is a big draw but so is the laid back lifestyle, the food, weather and the charm of the place.
im forever infuriated with mates who waste £1000s on 18-30 holidays and trips to greece and europe even despite me pleading with them to try thailand
i count myself lucky that i didnt lose my BKK virginity until i was middle-aged or when i had too many commitments. without a shout the best thing ive ever done
View all comments by Penfold
astonishing, confusing, insane, enthralling, an experience i wouldn’t trade, something about the first time with some things ’sometimes illegal’ just can’t be duplicated, your friend was fortunte to have you as a tour guide as opposed to the cheap ass Dr. who preaches no tipping girls for exceptional service
View all comments by don
But do you just shrug when you pass a blow-job on the street, on your way to a elephant bar?
Me, I come from Germany, where even sometimes the local council website carries information about the local mega-brothel (as an attraction!), so Bangkok wasn't quite such a shock to the system as for you folks from repressed Anglo-Saxon nations. Glad I first hit it in my 30s and not my 20s though, otherwise I may well have ended as another pathetic SRS (Stickman Reader's Submission).
View all comments by NotAnyBangkokRelatedWebsite.com
repressed, thats an understatement here in the U.S., but south of the border, Mexico has a half ass p4p scene that gave many of us a little experience
View all comments by don
I actually came to Thailand the first time blissfully ignorant of the sex scene, just looking to visit some temples and do a little SCUBA diving. I was off the plane about 18 hours before I was muff-diving a freelancer in my hotel room.
I met a BKK virgin recently; he was staying with a friend of mine. The three of us met for a pitcher of beer and a game of pool at Country Road in Soi Cowboy at about 7 pm on his first day in Bangkok.
The virgin stated clearly that he had come for the temple tour, and WOULD NOT be sampling the local lovelies. Amazingly, there were three of us shooting pool, and three girls shooting pool at the next table. He liked the one in white, I liked the one in black. I bought the three girls a round of drinks on the condition that the girl in white talked to the virgin.
Around 2 am we checked into the Penny Black hotel overnight. The virgin and (appropriately I guess) the girl in white. I took the girl in black and her cousin. (The third guy went home to his girlfriend).
For the virgin, it was a mind-blowing introduction to Thailand. For me, it was another Tuesday night out shooting pool.
View all comments by werewolf
Love the new site. An amazing city by any stretch of the imagination.
View all comments by bkk22
BBB love the new site… this is the first time i have seen it in full version. Am i the only one who looks at the mobile edition ???
View all comments by MSB
A couple of "virgins" are joining me in Pattaya at the weekend, a long time ex-pat and I were just making bets on how long they would last till they barfined. Back in the day (or night to be accurate) I managed nearly 40 mins at a bar in Cowboy before I broke the seal. You never forget your first time!
View all comments by Smiler
@Penfold: You can't explain the appeal of Bangkok to anyone who hasn't been here. Which makes it difficult to get them here. But once they're here, they usually love it (and wish they'd come sooner).
@Don: I never met the Doctor, but he seems to know his stuff. Weren't we just complaining about tipping? I guess there's a happy medium
@NABRW.com: Love the elephant/BJ idea! Yes, Germany is a world apart from the UK/US. Much more sensible. Stickman Submissions are mostly hilarious. Can somebody explain why Dana exists?
@werewolf: What a surprise, eh? Glad your Virgin succumbed. Just hope he doesn't hate you for it.
@bkk22: Cheers dude!
@MSB: Nobody else has mentioned it, so I guess so. To the uninitiated, the site detects if you're using a cellphone/PDA, and optimises the pages accordingly.
@Smiler: Pattaya? Ouch. They're going to be reeling for months…
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
@BBB too true - i brought my best mate out here for a 2week holiday last year and hes already booked up to move out here at xmas
i came for first time 2years ago and did likewise
being back in UK for even 4months makes me realise how i miss the place
it'll be all the sweeter when i hit poseidon on boxing day
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p.s. im breaking in 3 pattaya virgins this xmas aswell
i dont think they'll ever be the same again
View all comments by Penfold
yes penfold, a happy medium is a prudent approach, my tippiing is more important to a lady who has gone above & beyond what might be expected, on the BTF the good DR. is hurling insults for a different approach, as it reads there no tipping ,their just whores
View all comments by don
I think the most amazing thing about Bangkok is the new cycle lane they've marked out on Suk Street. Everything else I can cope with.
I like the look of your new site, but I don't know where anything is anymore. Also, the "search" facility is, frankly, crap on a stick.
View all comments by Pants Elk
the new cycle lane they've marked out on Suk Street.
Yes. I am finding this difficult to believe, even for Bangkok.
the "search" facility is, frankly, crap on a stick.
What's wrong with it?
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
The bicycle lane was an astounding sight!
Well, I've given it several days… maybe a week already. I don't like the new site format. I may have to stop visiting here and go back to Stickman… you can count on consistency in his format!
View all comments by werewolf
It's consistently impossible to read, yes…
Throw me a bone here, guys. I've had comments and a load of emails about the new format. Most of it's been positive. To those who don't like it - what would you change?
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@BBB i dont like the new layout because i was hoping for a free bar-fine with every post - sort it out NOW!
View all comments by Penfold
p.s. at first i thought the new layout sucked, but after a few days using it i have to put my fingers up my arse and admit this layout is much better - good work
now…….. about that free barfine
View all comments by Penfold
@Penfold: It takes some getting used to. It doesn't look like most blogs - more a magazine style. I thought that reflected the content a little better.
Those who are struggling to find things may want to check the new Archives page, or the new improved search engine (both are up at the top of every page).
Free barfines on every page will be redeemable at Bad Boy A Gogo, when it opens. This revolutionary bar will have no mamasans visible to the customers (they're in the back office, working), and will feature a unique trap-door built into the steps up to the stage. Any girl weighing more than 40kg will trigger the exquisitely engineered mechanism, which will magically transport the chubby chancer to the steps of Sukhumvit Soi 3's Grace Hotel. They like them chubby round that way. Works on drunk fat farang girls too. Oh, and free beer and blowjobs on Wednesday nights. Got to keep those Big Mango boys on their toes…
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
im not going to stroke your ego anymore with regards to the new layout but its a class act - now thats they gay stuff out of the wayif you need a doorman for the new club let me know - any1 in chino shorts/sandals or wearing a 'beer chang' tshirt will receive a showing round the back
View all comments by Penfold
p.s. correct - ***receive a shoeing round the back***
im such a clumsy fingered tw@t
View all comments by Penfold
Before i first visited BKK I was aware that it was the 'sex capital' of the world - but what I hadn't realised was how open and (largely) unsleazy it was - that's where the delight lies - you can enjoy yourself more because it doesn't seem wrong - long may it continue.
View all comments by doctor bond
Dr Bond, it doesn't seem wrong because it isn't. And the lack of western-style sleaze (porn shops, porn, cruising for old slappers and crack whores down the docks) is a real surprise.
I'm currently holed up (fnnnnrrrrr) in the evocatively-named PB Hotel. It's like the Overlook Motel. 7oo baht a night for a magnificent stateroom, clean sheets, and a shitload of cable TV. Plus; the ground floor is a drive-in short-time, used mostly by Thais who must appreciate the discretion of a curtain pulled across their license plate. The corridors are endless, populated by cleaning girls feasting on room-service leftovers and sleeping on the laundry. I love it. My current amour is sleeping it off there even as I type. Back to the UK for my stint of dreariness in a couple of days. Seems more like going away than going back. When you've been Bangkocked, nothing back west is any good ever again.
View all comments by Pants Elk
i used to wonder where to go for a holiday, …….then i found her.! she was hot ,steamy, erotic, exotic, positively breathtaking ,sensual overload, fucken mad as,,,, it is not my town ,it is her town, i invited myself to this party.evryone said welcome to the party,sit down have a drink, everyone smiled at me,number 69 your meal is ready.yes it is bangkok,,,,,paradise.!..let the games begin! and when you sit on the plane, all you can think is .. are we there yet…. soon son very soon.!
thank you god for letting me have so much fun when i am on holidays. and when you have to go home, back to reality, your friends say did you have a nice time on your vacation…….you smile,,,and say,,,it was alright.. and try and stop yourself from laughing….as flashback after flashback hits you….not long till holidays roll around again……this time though you dont look at travel brochures,,,you look at flight departure times,,,to the party.!!!
View all comments by eloelo
Bkk changes you.Permanently.Oh yea for sure.I wish I had discovered it way earlier.I try to go every 3 or 4 months now,as soon as I get back Im already planning the next one.What a joy it is(I even know a tg named Joy!) to walk in a bar,gogo,etc.,sit down and know you can go home(hotel in my case) with whichever one you desire.And of course thrs the cheap food,liquor,climate and the "anything goes mentality"…………
View all comments by Goose
In our time when everyone except the tax-burdened Western male is a "victim" of some sort, i suggest the creation of a new type of victim group: The Bangkok Cold Turkey Group. The purpose of this group would be to help men returning to home country reality after a holiday in Bkk. The therapy would consist in a daily dose of sexual congress with Thai ladies living in the home country, who over the course of a week, would gradually reduce the dose and wean victims off their addiction for Thai ladies. During week two, tracksuit-wearing corporeally challenged local lasses would take over, with readings from Naomi Wolf and other such well-informed progressive authors. The course participants would terminate the second week with a reinforced sense of their general worthlessness, duties and guilt. Funded naturally by the United Nations with sponsorship from Beneton. Because.. hey, Western Men have rights too….right?
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@Sam: *applause*
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