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October 7 2003

Turning a Thai hooker into a lady

Turning a Thai hooker into a lady

Julia Roberts pleasures Richard Gere in Pretty Woman

Have you ever worried about introducing your sexy Thai hooker girlfriend to your family? If so, you are not alone. Throughout history men have pondered the same question.

The idea is irresistible to writers. Jane Austin's Emma and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion are classic examples. Hollywood set the latter to music and created the movie My Fair Lady. More recent offerings include Pretty Woman, Educating Rita and Maid in Manhattan. The story is always the same. Low-class girl meets upper-class guy who makes her into a lady and usually loses his heart in the process.

Pretty Woman is unique in that it tackles the underlying prostitution theme almost head-on. Businessman Edward (Richard Gere) picks up street hooker Vivian (Julia Roberts) because he needs directions to his hotel (Try telling that to the cops, Richard). He grows fond of her, teaches her good manners and eventually falls in love. Vivian, not content to be his mistress, implausibly turns into a respectable girl and leaves him to go to college. Edward responds with a flower-strewn marriage proposal. Pass the sick-bag please.

Before Pretty Woman, writers had to invent silly pretexts for these unequal relationships. In My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) meets a young girl, Eliza (Audrey Hepburn), selling flowers on the street. He has to turn his slapper into a 19th Century lady in order to win a bet. All Richard Gere had to do was pass one off as an American girl. How hard can that be?

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Against all the odds, Eliza's rehabilitation succeeds. However, like Vivian, she too decides to leave her benefactor. In the film, she eventually returns but Shaw's original book has a more realistic ending. She dumps him for a man her own age. From a female perspective, it makes perfect sense for Eliza to replace Higgins with a more attractive partner so long as she gets what she wants first. Why allow loyalty to stand in the way of desire?

The enduring popularity of the story stems from the connection that both sexes feel with the characters. Men often desire outrageously sexy women - Thai gogo dancers for example. Taming one to be a monogamous partner is a common fantasy. Ordinary women often share the hooker's dream of winning life's lottery just by screwing the right man. The Hollywood version gives everyone what they want.

In the real world, ordinary men trying to live out this fantasy usually come unstuck. Low-life women have made an industry of taking men to the cleaners. No story illustrates this better than the love-struck western tourist who marries his Thai bar girl sweetheart and takes her home. His humiliation and financial ruin are a racing certainty. We are still waiting for Hollywood to make a feel-good movie about that.

[Posted to Relationships by David]

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Readers' comments

Andrew Fox-Russell says:

So, does anybody know how to do it? I'd love to know how to turn my Soi 33 TGF into a lady?

TANAI KWAI says:

Over to you, Captain!

"When Captain America throws his mighty shield,
All those who chose oppose his shield must yield!

If he's lead to a fight and a duel is due,
Then the red and white and the blue'll come through!

When Captain America throws his mighty shield!"

http://www.leaderslair.com/captainamerica/captainamerica.html

(it's a fair question, actually)

Dana says:

Jesus Tanai--Where does it all come from? Have you got an inhouse research staff scurrying like squirrels in front of cars everytime another post appears? How do you do it? A little of this goes a long way. I think you've tipped right over and gone beyond smart. Possibly you have some wierd chromosomal defect that allows you to know too much about everything. I'm almost persuaded that you are smart enough to start learning from me.

TING TAWNG says:


(assume James Brown growly voice for the following)
This is a man's world

This is a man's world

But it wouldn't be nothing

Na-----THIN!


without a bar girl with a tight ass and sweet smile

TING TAWNG says:

You see man made the car

To take us over the road

Man made the train

To carry the heavy load

Man made the electric light

To take as out of the dark

Man made the boat for the water

Like Noah made the ark

This is a man's man's man's world

But it wouldn't be nothing

Na-----THIN!!!

Without some sweet honey bargirl

TANAI KWAI says:

**OFF-TOPIC** **HOLY CHRIST!** **OFF-TOPIC** **HOLY CHRIST!**

"Have you got an inhouse research staff scurrying like squirrels in front of cars everytime another post appears?"

No Dana, but I did see something you've caused me to recall from a segment on Extreme Makeover last night. Some guy was getting hair transplants. The surgeon removed this flap of scalp from the back of the patient's head in order to harvest some hair that evidently was not "programmed" to fall out like the stuff in the front. After he was through cutting the surgeon held up the strip, which, oddly, looked gelatinous and milky (and if I didn't know better, coconut-flavored).

The hideous thing was then cut into pieces and distributed to a line of what looked like about eight Mexican and Asian girls wearing bunny suits (not the fuzzy-eared kind, the ones they wear when assembling semiconductors). Their job was to peer at their assigned square inch of scalp through a microscopic device and to cull out the complete hairs dwelling there, root and all, using tiny chopstick-like tools. The surgeon then used some kind of ghastly threader to anchor the hairs in their new home atop the man's once shiny dome. There must have been a crowd of well over a dozen in the operating room. It was really strange to see so many people working on this guy's male pattern baldness issue at one time (scurrying like squirrels in front of cars).

"Possibly you have some wierd chromosomal defect that allows you to know too much about everything."

The Native American Jim Thorpe was considered by some to have been a genetic freak because he was such a preternaturally gifted athelete. He was easily the greatest sportsman of the first half of the last century. This guy could simply observe any athletic activity -- baseball, football, decathalon, boxing, golf, swimming, hockey, lacrosse, whatever -- and immediately excel. He even won a ballroom dancing competition. Now that's weird.

"I'm almost persuaded that you are smart enough to start learning from me."

I don't know that I ever want to be that smart. From the sound of it, it starts to loop back in the other direction -- you know, like when people get so liberal they start to sound like fascists. That sort of thing.

(...)

TANAI KWAI says:

By the way, Andrew, would you feel comfortable disclosing the Soi 33 bar?

Generally speaking, I would be interested to know the dominant places there these days.

(...)

vicky says:

hi frins i like thailand thai girls maney time visit thailand and food beach yea i liket

jim says:

Ha,
at what point do the internet fantasies become booking a plane ticket to a far off backwater such an imperative? And how does one make this "non lady" into a lady (ie - a background and current mannerism acceptable to other white people in your own country?) so you dont look like a guy who " i was just holidaying i swear when i fell in love with this girl who fell into my lap" and gee it never seems strange that young asian girls who are into cartoons could have so much in common with a white haired man with a love of hanging out in bars.How could it not always be love?? i mean i remember when i was 20 in australia too meeting an australian girl while out dancing (similar so far) and then taking her by the jewellery shop the next day for a quick check of what i could afford,shit coffee and dinner is so passe anyway ?? Surely getting the eye non stop within 5 minutes of sitting down must be real love???

Wombat says:

Jim

I always worked on the theory that before you bonked them a second time it was advisable to meet the mother. That way you had some indication of what she would look like in 20 years time. Which neatly explains why I have been travelling to Thailand since my early 20's.

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