Video here. May not be worksafe, even though there is no nudity or profanity.
Poor James. 
But this is actually quite a common story. Chatting with the bargirls in the bars, they’re always tell me about the guys who are sending them money so they don’t “have” to work in the bar any longer. They keep the money and keep working in the bar. Some of them are receiving an income from half a dozen men – or more – each one oblivious to the the others. Definitely a case of “Caveat emptor.”
Because they all have a penis (according to FHM)
On the contrary, the chicks with dicks are definitely in the minority, but it is indeed best to keep your guard up (unless that IS what you’re looking for, of course). Some guys have gotten the surprise of their life when they took their new sweetie back to the hotel and unwrapped the package. But the one in this video is a real female, I’m certain.
I’m kind of confused by this video. I watched it and the audio is poor to begin with, then the girl is mumbling in English sometimes and in not-so-English other times and is sort of whiny.
What happened? She had sex with a dude and then the dude video taped her calling (or receiving a call from?) some guy named James who she tells she’s not a liar?
You’re probably more used to hearing a Thai accent. Care to explain it to us?
Read the Youtube comments below the video to get an idea of what’s really going on.
I did, but I still don’t get it. She’s cheating on him?
Yes, this is a typical story. She’s still on the game, but her farang “boyfriend” – James in this case – is calling her, probably from farangland (the West). She’s telling him she had gone to her girlfriend’s room and that her phone’s battery had died anyway and that that’s why she could not answer the phone. In reality, she could not answer the phone because she had been doing the nasty with this guy making the video. A very typical story – the girl being sponsored by one or more men to keep her off the game, then she stays on the game anyway. The “dead phone battery” excuse is a common one, also.
Sorry, I guess maybe I AM used to Thai accents. I thought her English was rather clear, but maybe it’s not.
There’s a whole new genre of girls’ tricks filming them making their excuses to other farang boyfriends who happen to call. Another one is here.
Well, I guess I won’t be looking for a wife in any Thai bars, then…
The bars are not really the best place to find a wife, although it happens a lot. The shortest time I’ve personally heard of from meeting a bargirl to the wedding is 36 hours. No kidding! Gee, I wonder how that marriage worked out. 
A friend in Texas whose wife’s uncle lives here in Bangkok (but I don’t know him) tells me the uncle just went through a particularly nasty divorce involving his third Thai wife. If he’s been through three Thai wives, then I can imagine where he’s been looking. All too often, when guys look to get married here, they think with their little heads and not their big ones.
Aww, and I’m sure they had so much in common! I’ve seen too many obese drunken uncles shacking up with Thai teens to care who’s getting shafted.
There’s really a thread to discuss that hookers are lying, conniving and greedy? This doesn’t fall under the category of “no shit, Shehlock?”
You’d be surprised how many guys this comes as a complete and total shock to.
One of my favorite stories is from about 20 years ago. A bank robber from I think it was Denmark made it to Thailand with his loot, fell in love with a bargirl and inexplicably handed all of it over to her for safekeeping! He was shocked, SHOCKED I say, when she promptly disappeared with it. Broke and unable to move on, Interrpol finally caught up with him, and he was extradited back home. As far as I know, the girl and the money were never seen again. And good for her! Stories like this are like the Holy Grail among bargirls, who pray for something similar.
Timeless wisdom: “You can take the girl out of the bar, but you can’t take the bar out of the girl.”
Go ahead and cross “Thai” and “prositute” off the list of cultures/nationalities and professions of women who can be trusted when you’re thousands of miles away.
…along with every other culture/nationality and profession.
Sometimes not even that much, it seems.
Dumbass losers who can only get laid by paying money for a sex slave deserve every bad thing that happens to them.
Except they’re hardly slaves, as I’ve detailed elsewhere on the Board. I know many of the girls and quite a few bar owners. The ladies are decent to talk to and know what’s what. Come and go as they please. In fact, I doubt I know a single bar owner who does not tear his hair out from the girls always switching bars, leaving him short. I’d never get serious with one, though.
I think that is a lot of rationalization of what is nasty business. A simple search of Thailand and trafficking reveals lots of evidence of children sold into sex slavery who then later become bar girls. These women are not surprisingly incapable of forming emotional bonds with poeple, especially the pathetic expat losers who pay them for sex. I can tell you from an NGO project I worked on that the idea that most of these women willingly entered into and remain in prostitution is a fantasy concocted by their clients to assuage their (deserved) guilt.
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Oh neat! A misogynist!
You’re certainly welcome to your opinion, but I would suggest it’s one not formed by any first-hand experience whatsoever. The vast majority of prostitutes’ customers in Thailand are not even Western, they’re Thai, and when you get to the lower end of the scale – say, the $3-a-day construction workers and their like – then sometimes you do find a little slavery in that area. But the girls targeting Westerners are their own free agents, and they can and frequently do leave the profession anytime they want, as well as change place of employment anytime they want. The Thai authorities have done a lot, too, to clean up child prostitutuion, I’ve not heard of it actually existing for a very long time now, but the stories persist, mainly because it’s more newsworthy to write that it exists. (This is Thailand I’m talking about; places like, say, Cambodia are a whole different story.) And there is not a bar here who “buys” any girls; that’s just ridiculous.
I’m not a client, but I spend a lot of time in the bars and a lot of time chatting with the girls and have for a number of decades. Your opinion just does not gibe with any reality I’ve seen. (The wife has chatted with them, too; she’s fine with me in the bars.)