Thailand: The Land of Smiles ??

OR let's try the "Land of Perverts" as Denise wisely renamed it last Friday night :)

I don't mean the locals, not at all in fact.. what I do mean is the European and North American tourists who are here to exploit the Thai women in the sex trade and buy a girlfriend for their vacation.

When we were in Bangkok it wasn't that obvious. We would walk around the city and you would see the odd fat and unattractive sixty year old man with a beatiful and very young Thai girl, and they would be on a 'date'. It would go like this: We would notice them, HE would avoid eye contact, Denise and I would shoot looks of disgust anyway and mutter pervert comments, and they would even seperate when they would see us so it didn't look like they were together. Nothing says "I'm doing something completely wrong and I know it" than that.

Coming to Chiang Mai was a completely different scenario. Not only old sleazy pervs.. but young ones as well!! AND completely hot ones as a matter of fact.. AND no shame. No avoidance of eye contact. Everyone here is doing it so they have no reason to hide it. When you walk down the street the bars are filled with only Thai woman and sleaze ball men. Denise and I actually feel quite invisible ;)

So we went to an "Authentic Muay Thai Boxing Fight" on Friday night. The posters and flyers really hyped it up and they were all over town.. real fights.. nothing staged.. that kind of thing so we were totally excited.. thought it would be a great to spend our night. Sweaty buff men fighting and beer :) BUT, what it turned out to be was a Thai hooker bar. It was Denise and I and Thai woman or lady boys "working it" for the N.A and European men who were looking for a girlfriend for the night or the week or whatever it may be. We had a beer and left (after we played some Jenga - click link for pics HERE and HERE!!). Shot dart eyes all around the bar and went home disgruntled and completely sad and grossed out :(

Nuff bout that.