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Hi all,
Well it's just past midnight here in Bangkok, the witching hour, or more like the whoring hour. These Thais sure have different ideas about prostitution, there's no idea of shame, or embarrassment in sleeping for money, and they sure are pushy about it.

The touristy street, at the stroke of midnight, turns into trash littered whore central faster than Cinderella's coach turned into a pumpkin. It's really offensive and a man can't walk around at all, every few feet another throws herself at you. They have all these different emotional styles, for the jaded man of all types, like some giggle and squeal, others look slutty serious, still other contrive to "run into" you in one way or another, like I once watched a Thai woman eating the same plate of french fries for more than two hours, that way whenever a man walks in she looks like she just happens to be there.

And just a minute ago one walked straight into me talking on a cell phone, it was pretty obviously an act, but that's what some do. It gets kind of comic, it's so overt. But I talked with one Canadian who shacked up with one for a couple days, but one day she came over with two Thai men who started just opening every drawer and bag in his hotel room while he stood there, see dangerous.

Plus all the obvious reasons, morality, disease, emotional distress, physical danger. I'm only writing about it to catch different aspects of this place.

But by day there's a big temple complex right here and all these touristy cafes and the whores disappear. That's the Asian way, specifically the Thai way, just co-exist and pretend it's not there, that way totally different groups get the same use of the same place.

Of course we have hardened beliefs and want to stamp out such conduct, but it still occurs. There's something to be said for both approaches, accepting something as inevitable versus strong prohibition.