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That Hungry Look
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In a recent blog, I wrote the following:
The other reason for my caution and patience was a girl who was clearly a freelancer behind me and to my left, who was working on a potential customer. She had a funky look, with cammo pants, styled hair and her hat on backwards. She was laughing, dancing a bit, and every time I looked her way she made eye contact with a hungry look.
That hungry look is common to all bar girls. A friend of mine used to call it getting eye-fucked.
I walked past a woman on the street today. It was mid-afternoon, and I was pretty relaxed in jeans and a tee-shirt. She was even more relaxed, in a slightly oversized tee-shirt, shorts and sandals. She was close to my age — say mid 40s — and she was without makeup or any particular grooming or accessories.
In short, there was no reason to notice her, or for her to notice me.
But as she walked by, she cut her eyes without turning her head and made eye contact with me. She assessed me quickly, trying to spot a flicker of interest in my face or eyes. In other words, she was ready to make a short-time hook up.
The 40-ish woman I passed today wasn’t wearing garish makeup or sexy clothes and there were no overt signs that she was a bar girl or former bar girl, but the habits of a lifetime are hard to break. She was checking me out as a potential customer. It all happened in a matter of less than two seconds. She made eye contact and held it two beats too long, then on some indescribably visceral level she got a look on her face that communicated that if I wanted sex it was mine to have, then she looked for signs of interest from me.
For my part, I remained passive and passed her without betraying any response.
Because I live at the hub of three nightlife areas (Soi Cowboy to the west, Soi 33 to the east and Soi 22 to the south) I pass farang and bar girls night and day. It’s amusing to walk past a bar girl who is strolling arm in arm with a paying customer. It doesn’t matter; she can’t help herself… as she passes she’ll give me the hungry look.
Obviously she’s with a customer, so whether I’m interested or not, we’re not going to make a connection right now. But she can’t turn it off. She’s been doing it for so long that it’s instinctive and constant… pass a farang, make a pass.
And the lady on Sukhumvit Road today reminded me that, just like they can’t turn it off when they are with a customer, they don’t turn it off when they get older either. The hungry look is part of their lives.
So, if you want a bit of fun, on your next trip to Bangkok when you’re walking on Sukhumvit Road alone and you pass a ferang-bar girl couple — just for laughs — make eye contact with the bar girl and look at her like you want to have sex with her. I guarantee she’ll eye-fuck you as she passes, and chances are that her customer will never notice.
Of course, the other side of the coin is when you are walking with a bar girl, if you pay attention you may notice her eye-fucking other men, even as she holds your hand, laughs and chats lightly with you. Don’t let it bother you; you may be a buyer taking delivery of the goods, but she’s still got to think about marketing for the next sale.
When you’ve been in Bangkok a while, you can spot a ladyboy from 100 meters by the way he plays with his hair or the way he stands.
You can always spot a bar girl too. No matter how she’s dressed, who she’s with or what she’s doing, one of the things that gives away a bar girl is that when a man shows interest in her, she’s always ready to respond with that hungry look.
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