Seat Belts
February 29th, 2008
Seat belts in Thailand are a murky issue. The police insist you wear them when you sit in your car, and that’s a good thing. But why is it OK for a pickup truck to drive around with a carload full of guys in the back? Every so often these things get into massive collisions and twenty young lives are lost all at once. Tragic.
(Naughty me, I always wonder if there was a cute gay Asian among them)
The 100 Baht Note
February 28th, 2008
Paying fines in Thaiand is very easy and fast. When you pass a red light, forget your papers, turn right where you’re not allowed to, your friendly traffic policeman will be happy with a 100 baht note fumbled in his hand. The price is higher for foreigners, but sometimes the guys are open to negotiation. Most policemen speak only a few words of English, so be sure to bring your gay Asian friend to help you if you plan to cross any red lights.
Andrew Drummond
February 27th, 2008
This guy is an investigative reporter who has done some excellent stories in the past about the seemier sides of gay Asian boystown, Sleezeville. Among them, an investigation into Iain Macdonald’s very strange will, who left his estate to a bar worker.
Everything Is Forbidden
February 26th, 2008
A little rant today. In Thailand everyhting is forbidden, unless there is a law specifically allowing it. So you can not buy poppers. You can not smoke pot. Prostitution is illegal. Porn is illegal. A foreigner owning 100% of a business is illegal. You are illegal if you overstay your 30 day stamp. The list can go on and on. What does this have to do with anything gay and Asian? Nothing really. But it filled another post.
Sexy DVD Mister?
February 25th, 2008
It’s silly but pornography is illegal in Thailand. Yet is is sold openly on Silom by boys who will approach every foreigner asking “Sexy DVD Mister?” or something to that effect. They’ll sell you copies of everything porn, from copies of mainstream straight fucks to pathetic kiddie porn made in god knows where. Better keep your grubby gay Asian hands away from it.
Spot On
February 23rd, 2008
I was spot on with my previous post about Pattaya drug busts. The police got their orders and went out in full force again last week to check the boys of Sunee Plaza for drugs, according to Slutsville’s very own rag, the Pattaya Daily News. At least they didn’t bother the punters looking for fuckable gay Asian trade if the report is correct.
Sunee Plaza
February 22nd, 2008
If ever there was a haven of underage entertainment it is Sunee Plaza in beautiful Pattaya Slutsville. Most all of the boy bars there, with the exception of Krazy Dragon have boys under 18 dancing and selling their bodies. The boys seem to enjoy themselves and somehow life in the plaza goes on. Day after day there is a nightly invasion of the old and infirm bent on having their dose of groping with some cute Thai boy. There is the occasional late night police raid. Not to check for underage boys, but to check the boys pee for drugs. Only in Thailand?
The Triads
February 22nd, 2008
Also called “Black Societies”. According to Wikipedia these evil Asian boys make a lot of money from pornography. The article is less clear if the triads produce the porn themselves or if they are just copying stuff already made in the US or Europe? I know the streets of Bangkok are full of bootlegged porn, and there’s nothing much original among it. My bet is the triads people just do the coypying and keep the actual girls (or boys?) for their own pleasure.
Two Transvestite Thieves
February 20th, 2008
Every week, you can trust the Pattaya Mail to have story about a transvestite or two snatching bags. The accompanying photo shows two rather clownesque looking katoeys who seem to be having a lot of fun. I wonder why the Pattaya mail has to describe these people as transvestites. They don’t talk about a straight robber who robbed a gay bank. Oh well, that’s life in the gay Asian ghetto.
Konerak Sinthasompone
February 20th, 2008
This was a cheerful and cute looking Laotian guy that was murdered by the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in a gruesome manner. From the New York Times, July 31, 1991.
In a white, neatly kept bungalow on this city’s north side, the Sinthasomphone family grieves quietly for its youngest member. The family who had fled repression in Laos more than a decade ago is trying to make sense of the death of 14-year-old Konerak, said family members, whose dismembered body was among the 11 found by the police last week in the apartment of Jeffrey L. Dahmer.
I clearly remember how sickening and horrifying it was, this case. I was watching it on TV night after night. How could this guy murder someone innocent like that? A case where gay, Asian and crime came together in a very perverse way.