Well, sort of official. Story here. Two elderly ladies with England’s Women’s Institute went on a hunt for the perfect brothel. They found it in Wellington, New Zealand. Found two of them there actually.
On behalf of my adopted country, I feel rather disappointed that the two ladies did not make a brief stop in Thailand. I feel certain we have something that could have caught their eye. My acquaintance, Marc the legendary Frenchman, owner of Eden Club in Sukhumvit Soi 7/1 of Bangkok, will not be sleeping well knowing that his popular establishment was not even put in the running.
I see that one of their biggest requirements was that the women had the option to turn down a client.
While I can respect that idea, isn’t one of the major selling points of brothels the idea that guys who, let’s just say are not the most attractive, can find a woman to have sex with?
Can you imagine how depressing it would be for a guy to go to a brothel and have all the women turn him down? I mean, if he can’t even buy sex in a legal bordello, doesn’t that make the dude feel like the biggest loser on the planet?
Let’s hope that guy doesn’t have a shotgun in the back of his truck…
Besides, women who take money for sex, but will only have sex with guys they like - well, doesn’t that pretty much sound like most Hollywood wives, plus Heather Mills?
Yeah, that criteria seems really stupid to me. I actually that it’s fair to the workers, but I suspect that elderly women are scarcely the proper judges for such activities. I’m the proverbial dude who couldn’t get laid in a brothel.
I think that being able to turn a client down is and should be a part of any business. And why are DMark and Darryl Lict thinking that the possible criteria for turning a client down would be, exclusively, attractiveness?
What jumped to my mind was needing a shower (preferably with chlorinated water), skeeviness and wanting services the prostitute doesn’t have in the menu. And yes, the last one isn’t “liking the look of him” - but the first two are.
No offense, but where did I imply that attractiveness was the issue? I was actually condoning the practice of choice. Hell, if I ran a brothel, I’d demand that every fuck started out with a soaping session in a shower. I’d say that short of being major league disfigured, most prostitutes that are not crack whores would be mostly concerned with personal hygiene and level of drunkeness.
Wanting to get realistic about prostitution is one thing, but it seems like doing research on statistics might be a first step before going out scouting for ideal brothels. Make sure the idea has worked in practice and all that…
That’s another reason why I’m miffed the ladies did not stop in Thailand. Contrary to what “everyone knows,” hookers in Thailand have the option of turning down clients. That’s true hands down in the bars, although if they do so in brothels or massage parlors they’ll need to have a fairly good reason to give the boss. (Or at least the Western-oriented ones; the ones catering to the lowest levels of society are more the ones who tend to be the sex slaves.)
But yes, it must feel really bad to be rejected by a hooker. And I’ve seen bargirls do it, too, for a number of reasons! Some have told me they won’t go with, say, certain ethnicities, period. But the times I’ve seen someone rejected for being an overall jerk, the guy was generally too much of a clod to be slighted; he just moved on to somewhere else and put it down to complete ignorance on the part of the girl that she didn’t want to go with such a “prize.”
I love it that they sent these two old ladies out myself. The photo in the story alone was worth the entire project! It being New Zealand, though, I’m disappointed there was no mention of sheep.
Well having worked in a brothel I would agree that the majority of people turned away are probably drunk/high/acting rudely or have hygiene issues. I’m sure that the people posting in this thread are way more attractive than some of the guys I’ve seen get successfully laid by some of the stunners that worked at the place I was at.
And being elderly doesn’t disqualigy someone to be a brothel judge/evaluator. Everyone old was once young.
A favorite story I heard from my grandmother is about how she and my grandfather married in secret. For the first year they told nobody, and weren’t living together. She told about how they had to sneak around to hotels to get privacy. Yep, even my beloved 103 year old grandma was once young and horny.
Nah, I have been most everywhere and done most everything. Now I realize a gentle man does not support prostitution as even in the best of circumstances, it is a nasty brutish business.
Well, it’s certainly not a profession I would recommend girls enter. I’m really not a prostitution “supporter” per se myself; I support the girls (figuratively speaking) and won’t dis them for choosing their work. The ones who do enter the field often come from even more brutish jobs, such as 12-hour-a-day-or-longer sweatshops that pay peanuts and involve whippings. Even if, like me, you don’t indulge, hanging out in the bars brings you in close proximity to the ladies, and talking to them and hearing their stories, you learn all manner of experiences, both good and bad. Once they fully understand that you are simply not going to go off with them, they let their hair down a little, knock off the “Oh, you’re so handsome” BS and open up. And having been somewhat acquainted with some bar and even brothel owners in the past, I know it can be a brutish business, but it doesn’t have to be.
Such places are referred to as “soapies” in Thailand, and when the subway opened a few years ago, it was informally dubbed the Soapie Express, because one of the stops is in an area with a long string of them. When a white male exits the subway there – and Nana Skytrain Station, which is near Nana Plaza – he can practically hear many of the other passengers thinking he must be up to some hanky-panky.
