From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Why Do Farang Men Travel Across The Globe To Meet Thai Prostitutes?

by Anonymous January 26, 2009 Bangkok Nightlife

How many times have you tried to explain prostitution in Thailand to someone who has never been to Thailand and been at a complete loss?  I found myself in yet another one of these conversations the other day and it made me think about why I have little or no desire to use the services [...]

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Smoking Weeds

by Admin January 20, 2009 Thai News Snippets

Another interesting article in the Bangkok Post.

Many teenagers in Bangkok liked to use marijuana, followed by amphetamines and weeds, according Abac Poll for Assumption University.
The poll’s recent study on drug abusers was conducted in Bangok involving people between 12 and 65 years old from 2,452 households from January 2 to 17, 2009.
43.6 per cent of [...]

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AIDS a Problem for Government Workers?

by Admin January 19, 2009 Thai News Snippets

Here was a recent Breaking News article in the Bangkok Post:
Approximately 1.2 million Thais contracted Aids and the ratio of men to women with the disease was about two to one, according to the Public Health Ministry’s 24-year report from 1984 to September 2008.
Public Health spokesman Suphan Srithamma on Sunday said there were 337,989 [...]

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How to Learn Thai Like a 4 Year Old Kid

by DougBangkok January 17, 2009 Thai Culture

How does a child learn a language? They are born unable to speak, and for the first 12 months, just make noises. But after 12 months, words come. Single words initially, but by 24 months, most children are speaking in simple sentences and have a vocabulary of several hundred words.
By the age of 5, most [...]

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Thai People and Common Sense

by DougBangkok January 17, 2009 Hazards

Having lived in Thailand for a number of years, I am convinced that Thai people lack the common sense gene. I love them, I love living here, but every farang here has seen many examples of seemingly stupid behaviour, ranging from sidewalks that are broken and barely usable to the recent tragedy at the Santika [...]

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Bangkok’s Unknown Fertility Shrine

by DougBangkok January 16, 2009 Thai Culture

A small shrine, hidden away on a hotel’s grounds, contains hundreds of wooden models of a penis, placed there by women wanting to become pregnant. Almost unknown by tourists and undocumented in most tourist guidebooks, it is easy to find and worth visiting.
Located on the grounds of the Nai Lert Park Hotel, a five star [...]

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Female sex tourism in Thailand: My girlfriend had paid sex with a Thai boy

by Anonymous January 9, 2009 Bangkok Nightlife

Sometimes ago I went public with a rather unusual and humiliating experience in Thailand in regard to female sex tourism. During our Thailand holidays my farang girlfriend actively looked for Thai guys and was finally bedded by a young Thai lover.
I initially intended to find out, to how many other farang males something similar happened, [...]

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