Thai Girlfriends – [Ex-] Prostitutes
Prostitutes are a very tiny percentage of the population of Thai women, but are often the vast majority of the Thai women that individual western men know, and the foreigner areas of Thailand tend to have an amazingly high population density of them. Travelling into those parts of town is like travelling into a subculture.
The large number of farangs with Thai girlfriends and wives taken from freelance prostitution pickup places and outright go-go bars is mainly due to the fact that it’s much quicker and easier to develop a full blown relationship with a prostitute and there are lots and lots of beautiful, lovely and outgoing farang-oriented prostitutes in the farang parts of the city. Years of observation have shown it’s too easy for a farang to become involved with a Thai prostitute of one kind or another.
From observations, most such relationships don’t work out well in the end, for various reasons, especially compared to relationships with non-prostitutes. There are many exceptions, however. Analyzing the successes and failures of such relationships turns up one most common and simple factor in determining the success and failure of relationships with [ex-]prostitutes — how long the female was engaged in prostitution in any form before meeting her boyfriend.
After that, the second most important factor is in regard to expectations, understanding each others’ limits, and general cultural and relationship issues, as discussed in both of my longer discourses on “bargirl and freelancer girlfriends” and “mainstream Thai girlfriends“, and accepting those differences rather than trying to change the other person very much.
Thailand is well known for prostitution even though it’s a very small element of Thailand — it’s blown way out of proportion as regards foreign views of Thailand on average. Prostitution is common around Asia, not just in Thailand.
In fact, according to international human rights reports, prostitution in Thailand ranks far behind Taiwan, the Philippines and India in per capita sex workers. The reasons that Thailand is particularly well known for it are due to the somewhat different nature of prostitution in Thailand :
Many of the ladies in prostitution here are lovely in a “native” cultural way and don’t fit into the usual mold of prostitutes in other countries — it has a different manifestation here. This, combined with other Thai traits, often results in misunderstandings by foreigners.
Indeed, many foreigners don’t call this prostitution, and many Thai ladies also call this “working with guests” or “working nighttime” and would not use the Thai word for prostitution because that’s impolite and demeaning. (But if money changes hands for daily service, then yes, it’s prostitution, by definition!
The prostituion districts in Thailand are safe and laid back (with few exceptions), thereby attracting men who want a sex holiday without dangers (relative to similar places overseas)
The price is low, both for the ladies and accomodation & general expenses here, which attracts many holidayers who want more bang for their buck.
Farangs take on Thai prostitutes as girlfriends and wives far more commonly than they take on prostitutes in other countries.
