Don't forget Class and the Cops
A lot of generalizations about nationality fail to take into account economic class. I'm sure most of those who post upon this board are of the upper middle class (by the american definition, or middle class by the English definition). The lower working classes in the US, I can tell you, are rather similar to the classes in the 'third world' from which our service providers are drawn. And after all they are the great majority of americans.
I frequently found reasonable service and a rough but adequate level of attractiveness for $50 to $100 back in the Bad Place, which is actually cheaper relative to the cost of rent or of a meal than here in Thailand. It is true they're likely to be a bit fatter, but that is due to corporate food (i.e control) more than standard of living.
Those girls were of the lower class - more likely to be beaten by their male compatriots than to be imbued with 'feminist' sensibilities. By the same token, upper-middle class Thai girls I have dated seem relatively 'american' to me - they certainly don't take a lot of guff or remove my shoes for me.
Of course in all four cases - upper-third, lower-third, first-lower, or first-upper, intimacy to the level of bondage (marriage) is [b]absolutely inadvisable[/b].
The main difference we find between the 'third world' and the Bad Place is simply enforcement - america is much more of a police state than those places. There are simply VAST numbers of poor people in the US, and most of those who used to have middle income jobs are rapidly declining to the working poor status. There is a huge supply of desperate people there - in many ways more desperate than here in Thailand. I think the big difference is simply that here you used to be able to 'get away with it', while in the US enormous resources are expended in trying to prevent sex and drug use - with a surprisingly high degree of success. Recently here Thailand has been catching up as a police state very rapidly.
Come to the third world soon fellows - the Forces of Social Control are working as hard as they can to close it down just as they did with your neighborhood streetcorner.