Working Girls Article and Documentary
[QUOTE=GreenBud; 1203085]Good info from an article about a second generation SW:
[url]http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/health/202984/following-in-mother-footsteps[/url][/QUOTE]Thanks for the article. It seems many of the girls prefer ST customers in a shabby brothel type hotel to the LT stay in a posh hotel with a farang.
Maybe most of us farang customers have a wrong picture of us in mind, the picture of a noble prince saving the little innocent princess for one night by bringing her to the Plaza Athenee or Grand Millenium. (Sorry, just wild psychological guessing!) Anyway I will always prefer that LT option which is almost impossible to afford in Europe or the US and always seems so easy when you are in Bangkok.
BTW has anyone but me seen that price winning documentary about working girls already (You cannot write the movie's name on this board since it's explicit language)? A part of it was filmed in a Massage Parlour in Ratchadipsek area. The name was probably Hi-Class? But somehow the documentary seemed a bit unreal like it was made up (especially the customers, they act so weird). Nevertheless the girls in the MP seemed to be OK with what they were doing (I wouldn't say they enjoyed it but it was kind of a normal job for them). The parts of the documentary that take place in Bangladesh and Mexico were much more frustrating.
You can see a trailer when you ad the explicit language term for working girl:
[url]http://www.*****sglory.at/[/url]
Another typical bullshit Saphan Kwai experience
Actually better than usual.
Visited a few of the Saphan Kwai places. The first two, near the corner of soi 2, have been moving a bit upscale. No nudity, lots of customers coming in groups and having dinner (no farangs) , and not many girls dancing. The corner one is T-Ded 99 and the other one is Chat (used to be VDO). Big beer (+ ice, + bloody cold towel, etc) , comes to about 170 total. Some attitude if you don't want to have a girl foisted on you.
The next one down from T-Ded was almost deserted, with 2 girls dancing on one side of the place, and 2 way over on the other side. The vibe was a rather more raunchy than the first places, although the girls were a mixed bag. Stickers on the nipples.
The next one down after the food place had more customers and dancers, some of whom were naked, and not bad, and they brought me a girl I actually fancied to sit with me. After a beer I thought I'd give her a road test, and she very promptly told me the proper price, namely 1500. However then came the mamasan out of nowhere, and a head waiter dude, queuing for tips after I already tipped the waiter. Then when we get outside, there's a bunch of 5 motorcy guys who *all* want tips and aren't very pleasant about it (they didn't all get tips), and want to take us the short-time hotel. There is a perfectly good one around the corner, Suparb, about 150 a room. Their one turns out to be about 20m up the road from Suparb, maybe 2 minutes walk from the bar, and it's 350 a room. That nonsense was a bit of a mood killer already.
The performance in the room was perfunctory in the extreme, including that insufferable insistence on switching the main light off. Definitely worth about 300 baht. 1500 not so much. With tips and beer and sitting fee, it came to about 2400 in total, at which point I might as well have gone to Nana or a soapy. I have to add that her attitude was relatively good, for that area. At least, it wasn't any worse than I expected it to be, and she even managed some friendly responses. No English though.
It's possible to enjoy these places, but the odds are stacked against you, so you have to be in the right mood.