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For much of history marriages were arranged and little value was given to a Hollywood vision of mutual sexual attraction. For the most part those marriages worked and still do. In Korea, for example,...

My feeling is that you are completely unprepared for going to the Philippines. You seem nave and gullible. The kind of person that would easily be taken advantage of. The Philippines is a hard knocks...

Moalboal had been on my "to do list" for some time. So I had an opportunity to go there in 2019. Took a bus from Dumaguete up the coast of Negros to a place where a ferry crosses to Cebu island. From...

Yeah those monster flying cockroaches, palmetto bugs, are ugly. What's the current idiom that might describe them: cockroaches on steroids? But I rarely see them in a living space and I can't recall...

One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard anywhere was on this forum regarding taxis. That advice was always use a taxi that is moving. Those that hang around outside a hotel or waiting on a taxi...

I am constantly on the prowl. Trolling for new prospects. Museums, beaches, geographic wonders are for another time zone. Nothing else attracts me in the country other than sexual encounters. When in...

I can't speak for anyone else but my advancing age has probably increased the likelihood that a girl will run after one pop.

That being said one night on my final day in-country when I was...

Tipping is a topic often covered on ISG and it is a source of contention among ISG members. Tipping is a western practice and it is pernicious. Unfortunately some westerners can't shake off the...

That's not sarcasm. That's resignation. And it taint a matter of living in the PI. I have been coming here frequently for a long time and I have learned that folks like taxi drivers will nickel and...

Puerto Princesa yes. Where? I could have told you a couple of decades ago but businesses come and go. Places called "sing-alongs" are impromptu karaokes and barfines are available. There is a park in...

Do you remember the story of the "Fisherman and his Wife?" I realized some time ago to never get deeply committed to a Filipina. Ultimately the reason for this is that Filipinos were a colonial and...

Too many orgasms will give you prostatitis and hematuria. You should be getting a yearly prostate screening for CA in your middle years.

That's a tourist scam. Don't buy into it. Before you get going in a taxi, always use your iPhone to take a picture of the driver, the car, and his license. Let him see you do this and do it with a...

I had only one experience and it may be noteworthy. Hanging out outside of the night club were groups of girls looking to be sponsored. Perhaps they didn't have the entry fee. They were looking to be...

I am going to take exception. Economics probably is a factor in pricing but a country's GDP does not always correlate to the cost of a lay. Ukraine is relatively poor yet from what I have read it is...

Yo the psych meds are causing the problem. Figure out another way to cope with your condition without the meds. Trimix injections will definitely get you a hardon that will last but the meds may...

(1) Filipinos resented the Japanese not the Americans from the gitgo during WWII and aided GI's for example during the Death March of Bataan and beyond. Unusual for a colonial military to get that...

(1) Morales is not xenophobic which is a generalized fear, antipathy of anything foreign. Morales's fear & antipathy is focused and not generalized. He is not xenophobia; he is viscerally and...

It has been awhile since I reviewed the specifics of this issue but as I recall the exchange rate and transaction fees were pretty steep. Then, too I have had identity theft on my ATM card in the PI....

If you go out on Fields Ave perhaps 25 m past Margarita Station across from the Jeepney terminal there are maybe 3 money changers. I have never seen anyplace in AC having better rates. If you have...

Go to the Angeles Foundation Hospital in Angeles City. It is a teaching hospital with a medical school. It's not far down MacArthur over the bridge then you bear left. Short trike ride. Ask at...

Some folks here are spelling out plans for getting drivers, trikes, rickshaws, when traveling in the provinces. There was a time when I would hop on a bus and head on out until it got dark and I was...

I think that a green card is pretty good bait for a foreigner to lure a Filipina. As much wherewithal as a middle class or upper class Filipina may have, she still has a Philippine passport which...

And that is for only one shot and a broken promise of a morning frolic. Go back to the system in Manila: pay the bar first and then the girl as she is leaving.

I haven't BFed in at least 10 years....

You are a fine-dining restaurateur and a sommelier in Davao. Oui ou non?