Hello? He said say they like each other.
Now that I think about it, they probably have to like a lot of people. You really have to be a friendly person to be a prostitute for a living. Times are tough when you can’t make friends.
I struggle to improve on The Player of Games, which I think is what most recommend. Though I started with Excession and only regret it because I still think it’s the best.
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Yesterday a guy I know from law school called me up for the first time in about two years to help him out on a case. We were catching up and he’s doing well, thinking about expanding, but said he didn’t want a lot more stress. We both agreed that a fair amount of stress came with the job but, chuckling, at least “it’s not like grad school.” (We were both in grad school before bailing out to go to law school.) So, ya, grad school is pretty goddam stressful.
Second to Player of Games. Look to Windward is good too.
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Ok well here’s the full story of my first night in Bangkok, about 20 years ago, you can judge.
I got in early in the day and explored the city, my friend and his wife got in that night. A Danish girl I had met in Japan was joining us the next day. We hit up some of the tourist spots including a street that was notorious for raunchy strip clubs whose name escapes me right now. It was kind of weird seeing tourist families shop trinkets at the stalls in the middle of the street while hawkers came up to us with lists of stuff the girls did at their clubs upstairs - such wonderful highlights as razor blades, darts, champagne show.
None of that sounded super fun so we went to a regular bar in a different area where we met a local ex-pats who told us to check out Nana Plaza for better strip clubs. We checked it out and found a bunch of hostess bars in the courtyard ringed by a bunch of obvious strip clubs in a 3-level C-shaped strip mall thing.
We wound up at one on the top and walked in to about 150 girls dancing in various stages of undress. Very quickly we had a gaggle of girls around us who were absolutely delighted when we bought them a Mekong and soda for about $1.50. I always say this must be what it feels like to be David Lee Roth or Dennis Rodman on a night on the town. A dated reference but you get the idea.
Eventually one of the girls sort of “claimed” me by grabbing my crotch. I assumed as a territory marking symbol to the other girls. She was very cute so this was ok with me. At some point she said we could leave any time but I have to pay her “bar fine” - as mentioned.
Eventually I did and left with her. My friend and his wife left with 2 girls. I had a very nice evening and at no point was more money asked for until the morning when she asked for cab fare. I gave her about $40 - about 20x cab fare - and she seemed happy.
My friend wasn’t really forthcoming about what happened with his 2 girls until we took a night train to Koh Samui - where after much alcohol both he and his wife opened up to me with explicit instructions not to tell the other that they had talked to me.
Apparently all was going fine until some ground rules were broken and my friend had sex with one of the girls while she was going down on the wife. Or as he put it - the best night of my life turned into the worst night of my life. They got past it, but he pretty much knew he was never getting another threesome/foursome.
Also in the morning when they asked for cab fare he tried to give them $20 for both girls and one of the girls kicked him in the shin. My friend is a cheap ass.
I ended up hanging out with my stripper a couple times after that - including one night going to a weird boy band show with her and her friends. I think their dream is to get a long term sugar daddy or even marry some farang. (I was 30 at the time, she was 24.)
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Thanks! I decided to go with The State of the Art because it’s short, features a female character, and introduces a lot of elements of the Culture. If she likes it, I’ll suggest The Player of Games next.
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I think my old pal who spent a large chunk of his inheritance over a couple of years in South East Asia after his mum died, and contracted HIV, probably does.
I feel like having a good looking, super submissive spouse is just one of those things that may seem great at first but basically always goes terribly. YMMV, I guess.
to be fair PhD students are generally pretty worthless
Good tale.
Reminds me of the time (ages ago) when I was told by my CEO to “Ask Alan about his honeymoon!”.
Turned out that Alan’s honeymoon in Thailand took a slight turn for the worse when his wife got badly sunburned and had to spend the next few days unable to move much indoors. Decent newly-wed as she was, she told Alan he didn’t have to stay in with her and was free to go and wander around, so he took a stroll around one of the local beaches where he noticed some huts offering massages, and, being perhaps slightly naive (this was 1987) ventured into one and requested said massage, which obviously turned out to be an unstoppably good full-on sexual encounter.
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I think they really wish they took a deal at this point.
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This is impressively stupid.
For the record, I was in grad school for 8 years. I loved it. Amazing time. It’s not all bad.
A friend of mine and her friend ordered an in-room massage in Thailand and the girls kept playing with their lady parts and buttholes. Apparently they had accidentally ordered a sexual massage and the massage girls didn’t know how to do a normal massage.
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I didn’t say don’t wear a condom.
Also I can see where years of that kind of behavior would turn into hell after a while.
2 friends of mine went to Thailand when we were around 20, the rest of us could not afford it at the time 
At the stop off in Moscow, Russia, let’s call him Jimmy decides to roll a Splif my other friend let’s call him Johnny realised and just bolted out into the Airport shit scared, comes back and trys to tell Jimmy the reasons not to do that lol.
In Thailand 1st night in the bar 2 girls approach, Johnny right away says no way Jimmy but Jimmy asks the price and its £50 for a full night so he books a night and off they go, Johnny buys a few beers and sigh’s.
About 2 hours later the girl Jimmy takes home comes running out the hotel room shouting and spitting at Johnny in Thai, Johnny manages to calm her down & she goes on her way obviously still fuming, Jimmy has fell asleep so Johnny also decides to crash.
During the next day they get surrounded in the 1st cafe they visit for breakfast by some Thai locals and felt scared for their life’s (J & J ain’t scared unless it’s called for).
They manage to pay the boys a fifty and start to appoligie as much as possible then sign a breath of fresh air.
Jimmy never went on holiday with us, ever after that. 
Why was she mad?
24 is from conservative Hollywood. So is Homeland.
This is woman who used to work for Giuliani I believe. Now is high level exec at Facebook in charge of advertising.
Daily reminder stop using Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc etc.