June 20 2004
Living with a Thai hooker

The manager of a well-known Bangkok go-go bar struck up a relationship with one of his girls. She carried on dancing but no one was allowed to barfine her. When he returned from a two-week trip to Farangland, however, the books revealed that she'd been with other guys every single night. Naturally, he felt unhappy about this and asked her to stop work altogether. She did for a while but, later, had to start again out of necessity. They're still together but, to spare his blushes, she now works in a different go-go bar.
Not every Thai hooker has a heart of stone and, sometimes, true love blossoms in a dreary hotel room over a heap of used condoms. If her farang lover earns good money, then their relationship might prosper. However, if he's in low-paid employment such as bar work or English teaching, then the new couple are often faced with a painful dilemma.
Her sister's son still has leukaemia, her father still needs his whisky and hookers and her mother's boyfriend still has his gambling debts. Cutting the money supply would create serious problems for all of them - and they wouldn't hesitate to inflict emotional blackmail.
Should our weary Thai hooker settle down with her low-paid farang boyfriend or should she carry on selling her body to support her family? Should she choose personal happiness or family responsibility? Unsurprisingly, she usually chooses both - with or without her partner's approval.
Love-sick fools often confront their girl with an angry ultimatum. They rationalise their actions by labelling her nearest and dearest as a bunch of wastrels and malingerers. Perhaps some of them are - but our indignant guy should consider that the kind of woman who cheerfully abandons her own family is unlikely to give him any lasting loyalty.
Ultimatums are pointless anyway. Even if his girl did agree under duress to give up "work," her ongoing need for big money would wreck their relationship. She'll continue to see old customers behind his back, sell the TV while he's on a visa run or dip into his wallet while he's in the shower - plus a million other variations.
Meanwhile, our love-sick fool will break into her email account, scrutinise her call records and buy a movement-detecting webcam in his ongoing struggle to catch her out. He'll succeed, of course, but this will merely provoke conflict followed by more hollow promises and another cycle of deceit.
The other option is to go with the grain and allow her to carry on selling her body. It's a surprising common situation. Though neither pimp nor ponce, our cash-strapped farang finds himself living with a working hooker (See She Comes Home to Me). She might tell him that she takes drinks but doesn't go with customers - but her boyfriend would be unwise to question this face-saving deception too closely. Often, though, she's completely honest about her intensions.
The phenomenon is so common that rules of etiquette have evolved to cope. It's perfectly permissible to congratulate your mate on his girlfriend's marvellous breasts or her skill at opening a bottle of soda with her twat. Whether or not you can have a grope depends on the situation and the amount of alcohol consumed but to shag her is definitely crossing the line - though, regrettably, it happens fairly often.
[Posted to Relationships by David]
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