Great. So Now Let Us All Into The Secret?
[QUOTE=Joe Looking; 1314730]I kind of agree and disagree with your post. I think a lot comes down to what you are looking for. When I was in Chiang Mai, there was nowhere near the selection of easy options that you would find in Pattaya and BKK but women don't flock to Chiang Mai to work in the sex trade. As has been discussed here p4p options do exists, although you will probably rarely run into an 18 or 19 year old and if you do they will probably be a star fish. Hell if you want I can turn anyone on to a site where you can find young college aged girls looking for cash for sex. Chiang Mai has everything from go-gos to soapy massages and they are not too hard to find with a little effort. As to the beauty of the women, I was never in a situation where at least one did not peak my interest (even at the Loi Kroh bars where some of the women are older). That said, I do prefer older women (30+) who have had a kid because they have been more consistent for me as a group. I, unlike many men, also happen to not be color conscious. I also don't really care where a girl is from if I enjoy her company or we work out a mutually beneficial arrangement.
With the size of the university and the standard of living that Thais in Chiang Mai enjoy there are also opportunities for non p4p women. Although I only took advantage of p4p the few times I visited, I spoke extensively about non p4p women with expats living there because I considered settling there for a while. The general consensus was that it is out there and like other Thai cities it will be harder to find a decent non p4p woman, especially if you don't speak Thai and have no Thai friends (social grouping is very important to them and I have met a few foreigners who met their Thai girlfriends / wives through Thai friends). Surrounding Chiang Mai are also several beautiful towns filled with women who are probably fed up with Thai men but don't know it yet or feel they have no other option. To get a girl in the province you will probably have to step up your language game or befriend a few English speaking Thais who live there, but chances are it will be worth it. This has nothing to do with p4p, but many Thai / Lao people would be thrilled for their daughters / friends to find a good guy who is nice. I traveled through Nong Kiaw in Laos with a few other backpackers and we stayed for about a week. At least once a day we ate at the same family run restaurant and I always smiled and spoke the little Lao I knew with the owners daughter. One night I asked the owner if her daughter (who probably spoke as much English as I did Lao) was married and she was so over the moon she tried to give me her daughters phone number and told me that if I wanted to do something with her daughter the next day she would let her leave work. She did not see me as dollar signs, but as a nice guy who would probably be good to her daughter.
The lookers are far from scarce, at least based on my tastes. In terms of what they charge, there is no firm price for sex in SE Asia. The price is a combination of what you let them get away with and what they think they can get away with.
Local men will always get first shot because they speak the language, travel in similar social circles and have the advantage that their is really no stigma associated with a Thai dating / marrying another Thai. Residents of Chiang Mai are doing better financially than many other parts of Thailand and this does shift the balance of power away from foreign men who could generally leverage their wallets. What this means is that you do have to work harder for women and get them to actually like you in many cases.
There is no shortage of working or regular Thai women, the main problem is that many men don't want to put forth any effort. Many men also suffer from ridiculous expectations. Many Thai guys young and old want at white skinned chick under 23. If that is your ideal woman you can probably forget it unless you are willing to work hard for it. If on the other hand you are willing to date women 27+ who may have a kid and darker skin, you are probably golden. It's not lowering your expectations, just adjusting them.
Before he broke up with her to travel, a buddy of mine had a young (23) white skinned girlfriend. He did not meet her at a bar, he met her because one night he was out with a group of his Thai friends who knew her and her friends. He confided in me that he felt really lucky because he knew that she was physically the type of woman that all his Thai buddies wanted and before they got serious there was no shortage of Thai men trying to win her affections. He told me that in the end she did not pick him because of money (he's actually had to borrow money from Thais some months to stay afloat) but because he put the work in, learning her culture and showing that he could treat her how she wanted to be treated.
I don't really see this as the case because I personally met several foreigners living in Chiang Mai who had healthy relationships of got their share of non-p4p action. Some women do see foreigners as atms but a fool and his money are soon parted. One good thing about Thai women is they generally make it easy to spot the gold diggers if you look past your hubris for the signs. There is always effort or money involved, you just have to make sure that in the end it is worth it.[/QUOTE]
What you have mentioned here is a general guide on how to find short term or long term Thai girlfriends, is not exclusive to Chiang Mai and can pertain anywhere in Thailand and perhaps anywhere in the world, or how to get her knickers off in four easy steps.
All well and fine if you are in your 20s and 30s and prepared to spend the whole night or longer trying to pull girls, but what you advise is simply not realistic for guys in they're 40s and over or for those who are not interested in playing the long drawn out courtship game.
And as for these beautiful fair skinned maiden University girls, I know that most of them if not all, would not be seen dead with a middle age Farang or any Farang in most cases, this is why all the sideliner girls advertise on Thai websites only. And where are these so-called websites that you claim it is possible to find young college aged girls looking for cash for sex in Chiang Mai? Yes, please do point us in that direction. My guess is nothing more will come out of it.
My point is, is that the adult entertainments and commercial sex scene in Chiang Mai over the years has been slowly dismantled and now anything even half decent is virtually non-existent or a truck load of cash is required for using the few and far between ripoff services available, meaning to get the equivalent as one would in Bangkok or Pattaya is going to be much more difficult to find and cost much, much more in Chiang Mai.
I have read many comments from posters claiming that there are commercially decent girls here in Chiang Mai which are easy pickings and there is no problems in finding them, but as yet, no one has specified where and how and usually have convenient exclusions of names, locations and website addresses. Why? Because I believe the stories from these irresistable to all women wallys, who have the ability to score just by taking a girl out for a meal at a 20 baht a throw noodle stall is a load of old troddle.
I still standby my original statement, that the commercial adult entertainments and sex scene in Chiang Mai is dead, unless anyone can prove me wrong with facts and figures rather than hearsay that alleges from their own experiences with excluded details.