I really, really love Asian Sweetheart’s site but I feel that she has a very slanted view of farangs. I don’t think she means any harm by it but the words she chooses often betray her underlying feelings. She recently chose to use Dean Barrett’s book “The Go-Go Dancer Who Stole My Viagra And Other …
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As I’ve mentioned in previous posts I do not have the great pleasure of living in the LOS. That means if I want to date “normal” Thai women I’m at a pretty severe disadvantage given their tendency to be shy for the first 1000 dates. So that ushers me toward the only viable option; internet …
My motivations for leaving life in America were numerous and complex. A more primal part of me yearned for attention and relished the more insidious offerings of this fair Kingdom. Simultaneously, I was attracted to an exotic culture where fun was a staple of life and things moved at a seemingly slower and less serious …
A couple of months ago, I wrote about a guy I was dating who kept a number of pastel-colored toothbrushes in a rather discreet shelf above his bathroom mirror, obviously for his many paramours. I never did get my own toothbrush. I got out of there faster than you can say “toxic bachelor”. He has …
Bangkok is awash with beggars; they usually crowd any of the countless passenger bridges that cross Bangkok’s streets, Sky train stations or other well-known areas of the city. I don’t usually give anything unless their situation seems exceedingly desperate. Young children, old folk and the odd disabled person will get a few Baht from me, …
During six months living and travelling in South east Asia I was up set by the levels of exploitation of women across Thailand, Lao, Vietnam and Cambodia.. I noticed that it always the beautifull girls and women that are on the scene. I Stayed with A Thai girl for 1 Month in Nong Khai. I was working and had hoped …