Dusk falls over the Chao Phraya river. I stand at the dock waiting for the boat to ferry me to the Oriental Hotel. I am to meet an American gigolo in Bangkok, as he is now a professor of literature at a prestigious Thai university we shall call him Roc. The ferry pull up to the quay, I board and watch the panorama of sparkling lights and skyscrapers on the other side as the boat cut through the waters.
The night sky is studded with stars. The ferry pulls up to the dock of the Oriental, I disembark and stroll to terrace overlooking the river. Roc is sitting at a table nursing a beer. He began his career in the underground music scene of Seattle. Roc was part of the Grunge rock music movement, he hung out and partied with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Mother Love Bone and the lead singer Andrew Wood and he were tight, until Andrew succumbed to an overdose of heroin. Mother Love Bone morphed into Mookie Blaylock and later became Pearl Jam. His relationship with Chris Cornell and Soundgarden began in 1988 when he snuck into one of their first shows.
He went on to engineer and produce demos and side projects for Alice in Chains, Candle Box, the first band that Madonna signed to her lable. Roc toured with Public Enemy the seminal rap outfit who with Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five pioneered political rap. Flavor Flav of Public Enemy declared Roc to be the hippest white-bread dude on the planet.
Roc arrived in Bangkok a decade ago. He immmersed himself in the lifestyle, rolling deep with beautiful women and partying like a rock star. He wound destitute and living in the redlight ghetto with four demimondaines. Desparate for money he solicited a date on Bangkok Chat with a prosperous Thai-Chinese business women of a certain age. Araya was more interested in companionship than sex. She enjoyed dining out in elegant restaurants, shopping and night clubing. Araya took him under her wing and taught him the refinements of Hi-So life. She took him to bespoke tailor to the stars Lucky Ricky and bought him the accoutrements of the profession, a blue pinstriped suit and a grey blazer with two pairs of trousers.
Roc developed a network of women eager for his services. Roc cracks a wry grin. ‘People think being a gigolo is all about hard alcohol, hard drugs and hard sex. In truth some women were totally into sex, some just wanted companionship.’
His luck changed when met Tong. She was a model in her late twenties who was the mia noi - second wife or kept woman of a Thai millionaire businessman. Tong said they were in an open relationship. He was married with children and spent a lot of his time flying around the world to attend to his business. He purchased a penthouse in a high-end condo unit for Tong and supported her with a regal lifestyle. She in turn was to be available to him upon demand. Roc and Tong were soon embroiled in a passionate affair. They were fixtures at the best restaurants, night clubs, and social events.
One day there was a knock on Roc’s door. He opened it and encountered two Thai hoods in Hawaiian shirts. One pointed a Colt .45 to his forehead and pushed him inside his modest flat. Tong’s significant other turned out to be an underworld vice king. Roc was told in no uncertain words to stay away from Tong. The hoods threatened him with dismemberment of his private parts unless he got wise. Roc cashed out as a gigolo. A cheeky grin crosses his face. ‘I got out of the business. I found I had a penchant for comedy. I had done stand-up comedy as a hobby in Seattle.’ Roc re-invented himself as a stand-up comedian and became part of the nascent but burgoning comedy network in Bangkok.
Roc’s green eyes sparkled with mischief. ‘ Roc lets blow this honky-tonk. I’m going to take you to 808 out at RCA.’
We roll through the lobby of the swank Oriental Hotel. A classical music quartet is playing Motzart in an ajoining room. We catch a taxi outside and swing out in to the Bangkok night. Roc pulls out his ipod and blasts Mixmaster Morris a.k.a. The Irrestible Force. This dude is Old School. The driver is nodding his head to The Force. I’m likin’ it. The taxi pulls up infront of RCA and we bail.
We hit the street and roll up to 808. It is situated on the former location of Astra. Roc exchanges pleasantries with the bouncers on the door and introduces me as his guest. The bouncers stamp our hands and we hit the set. DJ Cash Money is rocking the house. He is hip-hop to the max. It’s a young and tricked out crowd. The dance floor is bumpin’ and heaving with ecstatic dancers. Steel girders overhang the roof on top of the bar. Roc orders vodka tonics at the bar.
Matt Hammond, the ace face behind 808 comes over to talk trash. Matt was formerly the DJ at Qbar. He is tricked out in the requisite hip-hop gear and knows everybody who is somebody on the electronic music scene in Bangkok. Matt schmoozes with a posse of fashion models. He invites us to join him at a trendy after-hours club Zion. The electronic music scene in Bangkok is wide open. I have a date meeting me at Twisted Republic so I decide to bail.
Roc hits the dance floor with one of the models in the posse. Cash Money brings home the bacon with Old School hip-hop that is burning up the house. Roc and the model are engaged in hot dirty-dancing. Once a gigolo, always a gigolo.
Nice.
View all comments by gripper
Just to get it straight: A male prostitute who listened to far more music cd’s than reading books become a professor of literature at a “prestigious Thai university”? Either the story is fake or it says a lot about the education system in Thailand.
In any case, I cannot respect that guy. Typical loser ending up in Thailand. Another low-life disgrace for us Westerners. Just my opinion.
P.S.: How much again did Curt Cobain pay “Roc” to suck his cock? I somehow missed that info…
View all comments by Phoenix
Why did it take two to write this? Why is Tony Pineda, a self-published City of Whores SF mythmaker cowriting a blog piece?
View all comments by Toblerone
I think “Professor of Literature” is poetic licence for English Teacher.
I’d give it two out of 10
View all comments by P
Berlitz actually hired this guy, but he was fired for snorting blow off a bargirls ass…. during class!!
View all comments by But Different
toblerone - hey dude, what are you doing tonight?
View all comments by mars
mars - i’m cowriting a blog piece. That and getting my points pinched.
View all comments by Toblerone
In defense of Co-writing a ‘blog piece.’
1. As an aspiring writer, given the opportunity to write with a published author is something one jumps at and is flattered by.
2. It was never written as a ‘blog piece’ it’s an excerpt from a larger work.
3. Entertainment types - mainly Madonna (she, her staff rather, added it to her blog 3 hours after it was posted)and more than a few Producer types who can’t be named due to their interest (financial) in the story disagree - they dig the story.
4. Of course Roc isn’t a Literature Prof. but due to the sensative nature of Thais in general and his actuall position, he’d surely lose his job if they new the truth about him.
5. Only the names have been changed barring 1
6. Roc continues to roll and no, he didn’t blow Cobain.
View all comments by khlongwater
Anyone can be a “published author” in the Bangkok sense. If you want proof just look at the ghetto shelves of Bangkok writers in any bookstore. Most (nearly all) are self-published. You write your book, you pay for it to be printed, and you hawk it around the stores to get it on the shelves on a sale-or-return deal. A step up from that, although not a great one, is a no-advance deal from a tiny local publisher that may get you royalties (at about the time Thailand drops all visa requirements) if you sell into a reprint. A looooong way from that is getting a mainstream commercial publisher to give you an advance and royalties for your work. Far too many City of Whores writers pretend they’re in this category. Nearly all of them, in fact.
View all comments by Toblerone
I still smile when some random bargirl calls out, ‘Helloooo handsome maaaan!’ What can I say, I flattered easily. Does anyone know if that was recently banned?
View all comments by khlongwater
At the candy bars:
Lighten up… Jeez… It was a submission and the Mangomenput it up. So what’s the big deal? Doubt they were thinkin’ NYTimes. Aside from possibly spite, what point are you making? Or trying to make? It’s nice to read something a little different from ‘went to this place, saw some girls, paid this much, you should go there.’ Jai yen yen or your chocolate might melt.
View all comments by gripper
I wanted to know why it took two people to write it, is all, and then I made a point about what “published author” means in Bangkok. Nothing.
So what’s YOUR point? Me, I’m nothing but points. That’s the nature of the product.
View all comments by Toblerone
I think it took 2 people because Klong was probably shagging and needed someone to type it in whilst he dictated it.
View all comments by smitty
Close -
I was being held against my will at the PB Hotel. I’m not the post coital huggy, cuddly type…
View all comments by khlongwater
anyone actually know of bars or places where farang women can go to find male sex workers?
View all comments by angie
angie - any of the male go-go bars have guys who go with ladies as well. It is not all for the gays. There are bars in pattaya for girls to barfine guys.
http://www.tfs2m.com/category/pattaya/
There are also some in bkk but I am not sure where they are. I hear there are 2 in Ratchada.
Most of these have Thai or Asian women but I don’t think the Thai guys would say no to servicing a Farang.
View all comments by smitty
Jupiter in Patpong is a huge gay GoGo but also caters to women. The address:
33/1-33 Surawong Road (Soi Thaniya 2)
Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500
Phone: 0 - 22 37 - 40 50
How to find: Next to Suriwong Hotel
Open: 20.00 - 1.00
I was taken here a few years ago by a girl I was seeing who worked at Angelwitch GoGo. She wanted to show me where Angelwitch got some of their show ideas from. I saw a few tables of Japanese women enjoying the place.
View all comments by pmmp
*nods*
An NEP showgirl took me to an underground seedy Thai karaoke bar in Ratchada a year or so ago - it was her Thai girlfriend’s birthday, and she wanted to buy herself a Thai guy for the night. Birthday treat, or something.
Clientele was Thai girls and gay Thai guys. I was made welcome, as apparently the first farang ever to set foot in there. Would never have found it on my own though - it was very well hidden - and doubt it I could ever find it again.
Weird night. I just wedged myself into the corner and drank whisky.
View all comments by TAFKABBB
So you didn’t take your mum there?
View all comments by Pants Elk
pe: He didn’t take his mum to meet his friends so I’m sure he didn’t take her to the underground seed joint. Come to think of it smitty didn’t introduce his parents either when they were here. I would take it personal but definitely the right move
View all comments by pmmp
Or you can always go Pattaya (Farangburi by The Sea) and pick up Russian guy…
View all comments by khlongwater
Where could a young farang guy go to sell himself to asian women? I wonder what i could charge? Could use the money to pay for my next rip.
View all comments by yesman
@ yesman, i was chilling in a gay beerbar in suriwong with my GF and when she went to the toilet, an aussie ferang came over and asked how much i was charging
offered me 10k baht for the night. i didnt take it,………. honest. imagine what you could charge if you were actually good looking?
View all comments by Young Penfold
twisted republic sucks
i suppose you met your date over there so that you can say ’so boring here! twisted sucks! really sorry, i didn’t know this disco was so boring, let’s go to my home then!’ ;-p
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I notice all these red-bloodied types who have visited gay go-go’s are at pains to explain how they got there…. oh I was taken by a GF of mine to examine the table cloths etc etc…
*chortle*
View all comments by doctorbond
farang -
try this post.
http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2008/01/13/twisted-is-the-new-sin/
dr - I can tell u I went to a few of them myself to see how the are making so much money. PLus the girls get wound up at these places. Full nude shows, sex shows and the cops being too embarrassed to go check the places out means that the gay go-go scene just prints money. I passed on barfining but I was amazed that the barfines and the short times are cheaper.
View all comments by smitty
Smitty - I’m sure it’s one hell of a spectacle - seems unfair that women are getting a cheaper rate though - as a prominent local businessman can you complain to the authorities and get bargirl barfines down?
View all comments by doctorbond
dr - I think u will find that at most of these places the customers are dudes.
View all comments by smitty
ha ha - yes of course - my stupidity shines through like a stream of bats piss caught in the moonlight.
In that case someone make me gay…. thats a joke Daywalker…
View all comments by doctorbond
i thought suriwong was a good crack (excuse the bad pun)
you could do a lot worse then take a girl there, as they kinda see the flipside as to why guys head to nana/cowboy gogos. iv taken a few there and they’v eaten it up (literally)
although i will say the touts outside make the patpong touts look like saints. If ever your short of beer tokens for the month, break out the hairwax and your tightest tshirt and see if you get any offers
View all comments by Young Penfold
Yp you better not be joking with me……..I am all over doing this. but 10k…..Thats more then enough…. I have done this sort of thing before..I if I did give it a shot my fear is that the Thai boys would beat the living crap out of me for taking customers away…
View all comments by yesman
Is there a freelancing spot that a young guy could go???I am very good looking and could clean up…….
View all comments by yesman
yesman -
please share whatever it is you’re smokin’…
View all comments by gripper
I swear to god, i was chilling on the corner bar of suriwong (name escapes me) watching the tottenham game, and a 40 something year old ozzie approached me and asked if i was on the game.
I thanked him for his offer but said no. He asked me to name my price. I said no, then he offered 10K. i was seriously tempted to let him just blow me off in a back alleyway then use the 10K on a whorefest to regain my sexuality but i resisted.
Baring in mind i was a personal trainer at the time with a Bodyfat percentage the right side of 9% i was in best shape of my life - doubt id get that kind of offer now. although i even remember thinking a young white guy with a good physique could clean up there - kind of like the russian chicks do
Lemme know if u fancy it and we can set up a raquet - i know some ferang crackheads we could pimp off
View all comments by Young Penfold
unless of course it’s someone’s nong chai
View all comments by gripper
Young Penfold,Man.When you said Aussie I thought you meant A women. I dont fuck guys.
I have done escort work before but I only catered to women.Oh well, I would enjoy being pimped out to women, I would even pay a commission!!
And If I did good trade in Bangkok I am certain I would have to pay dues for protection to someone.
Ever see Ladyboys paying for it at these gay clubs?
View all comments by yesman
And the first nominee for FS2M Quote of the Year:
“I thanked him for his offer but said no. He asked me to name my price. I said no, then he offered 10K. i was seriously tempted to let him just blow me off in a back alleyway then use the 10K on a whorefest to regain my sexuality but i resisted” - Young Penfold
View all comments by pmmp
nice. so much for voting for obama.
View all comments by khlongwater
obviously young penfold has never done time…
View all comments by khlongwater
I used to sleep with a girl that owned an escort agency in bangers….. hisescorts.com or hisbangkokescorts.com something along those lines and she offered me some escort work which I turned down. The agency charged 9k for the night - 5k to agency and 4k for me.
She said she had a lot of monied thai woman enquired through the site and wanted company and sex from young ferang. This was when i was still working out and was a trainer so she said i could make a few baht out of it. I enquired a few months after when i dropped training completely and she said i would only be able to get into the game if i was back in top shape again
I only ever been to the gayclubs a handful of times (maybe 4-5 maximum) so never seen any LBs in there but im sure they know where to go for a quick fix, but no doubt these places are well out of the way which the average ferang would never find.
I went to Hollywood in Ratchada the other night and the service guy parked me and my friend right in the LB section and there were some seriously hot LBs there and they were shouting me and my friend coronas.
I doubt paying protection would be an issue really, as if your screwing others welloff thai guys wives your bound to get caught up with sooner or later
View all comments by Young Penfold
i pumped a fat girl and she paid for the condoms and the cab. does that count as being a gigolo?
View all comments by gripper
penis van lesbian.
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