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before I go any further please let me state that I KNOW THAT LADYBOYS IN THAILAND, INDO, AND THE PHILIPPINES ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST and I feel horrible about that; anyone that knows me knows that I love these ladies and feel terrible for them if they are not treated fairly just because they choose to live their lives as they choose. For the non-hookers in the ladyboy wold, I wish it would be more fair for all of them, I really do.
with that said.....
It gets pretty damned old hearing ladyboys who are hookers in Thailand complaining about their lot in life. "Woe is me...all I can do is hook for a living and I must somehow survive on 20,000-30,000 baht per month just to get by". This is bullshit and it is proven every single day when you just go outside your door in BKK or anywhere else and you see people, you know, WORKING for a living? Outside my apartment is a place where the moto-taxi's hang out, and they take people over to the BTS a mile away for 20 baht; at the BTS Thong Lor station there is another 20 or 30 of these guys, all hustling and driving their rice rockets all day long for maybe 200 baht or 300 max.
now, these guys are all mostly the same age as the ladyboys that we meet, roughly between 18 and 25. and yet, the ladyboys that we know all somehow can't live on the 2000 or more per day that they make, and yet these guys can somehow pull it off? how about the sales clerks at Robinsons or Central or Big C? they make about 6000-8000 per month if they are very lucky and have to stand all day, 6 days per week. a popular hooker at Obsessions or Casa makes that in one night if she is lucky; basically, i know some girls who make more in one month [60,000+] than these low-scale workers make in a whole year, so it's hard for me to listen to the griping.
It's even worse in the country, I am sure.....and that is why they all flock to BKK. farmers in Issan can pick rice all day and make about 3000baht for a whole month, while a cute ladyboy the same age can get that in 15 minutes of sex with some Japanese guy. Other menial-labor jobs pay 4000 or 5000 baht per month in the provinces, while the girls we meet are making that in a night or 2.
Yes, ladyboys have a tough life and as i say, i feel very sad for the 'nice' girls who choose not to hook and are picked on and ridiculed and face job discrimination and worse. our dear friend Kui fits that catagory, although I must admit that after 4 years of doing this job I don't know too many others! but i have heard of girls who want to get real jobs and are not hookers and can't because they are ladyboys. for them, it truly blows.
BUT.....for the hookers, web-cam operators, street-walkers and bar girls, etc, who make a living at selling sex, i feel no sympathy or pity. they are making MUCH more than most people their age; the moto-taxi drivers outside my place would kill to make 5000 baht in one night just for sleeping
with someone. The smart ones will make the most cash they can while they are in the 18-25 bracket, and then get the hell out and start a business back home, and at least they have the chance to do this. most people in that age group will still be picking rice or working in Robinsons or Mcdonald's 5 or 10 years from now, while the ladyboys who are smart with their cash will be living a better lifestyle in the country. and yes, I am not stupid or Naive......I KNOW that many are lead into the 'life' BECAUSE of the small wage scale for regular jobs and even cabaret shows. But if they make that jump from nice girl to bar girl so they can compound their income by 10 times, don't keep bitching about how hard life is; think about the way it was BEFORE you got into hooking.
just my take on things......ladyboys have it rough, but I think the majority of people in that 18-25 year old grouping have it just as hard, and they don't have the ability to use something as unique and exotic as having a dual identity to make extra cash. Ladyboys who are pretty can make big money, sometimes just from sucker sponsors oversea's, while their contemporaries bust their ass on construction projects and digging ditches and waiting on asshole westerners while making peanuts.
Jon
with that said.....
It gets pretty damned old hearing ladyboys who are hookers in Thailand complaining about their lot in life. "Woe is me...all I can do is hook for a living and I must somehow survive on 20,000-30,000 baht per month just to get by". This is bullshit and it is proven every single day when you just go outside your door in BKK or anywhere else and you see people, you know, WORKING for a living? Outside my apartment is a place where the moto-taxi's hang out, and they take people over to the BTS a mile away for 20 baht; at the BTS Thong Lor station there is another 20 or 30 of these guys, all hustling and driving their rice rockets all day long for maybe 200 baht or 300 max.
now, these guys are all mostly the same age as the ladyboys that we meet, roughly between 18 and 25. and yet, the ladyboys that we know all somehow can't live on the 2000 or more per day that they make, and yet these guys can somehow pull it off? how about the sales clerks at Robinsons or Central or Big C? they make about 6000-8000 per month if they are very lucky and have to stand all day, 6 days per week. a popular hooker at Obsessions or Casa makes that in one night if she is lucky; basically, i know some girls who make more in one month [60,000+] than these low-scale workers make in a whole year, so it's hard for me to listen to the griping.
It's even worse in the country, I am sure.....and that is why they all flock to BKK. farmers in Issan can pick rice all day and make about 3000baht for a whole month, while a cute ladyboy the same age can get that in 15 minutes of sex with some Japanese guy. Other menial-labor jobs pay 4000 or 5000 baht per month in the provinces, while the girls we meet are making that in a night or 2.
Yes, ladyboys have a tough life and as i say, i feel very sad for the 'nice' girls who choose not to hook and are picked on and ridiculed and face job discrimination and worse. our dear friend Kui fits that catagory, although I must admit that after 4 years of doing this job I don't know too many others! but i have heard of girls who want to get real jobs and are not hookers and can't because they are ladyboys. for them, it truly blows.
BUT.....for the hookers, web-cam operators, street-walkers and bar girls, etc, who make a living at selling sex, i feel no sympathy or pity. they are making MUCH more than most people their age; the moto-taxi drivers outside my place would kill to make 5000 baht in one night just for sleeping
with someone. The smart ones will make the most cash they can while they are in the 18-25 bracket, and then get the hell out and start a business back home, and at least they have the chance to do this. most people in that age group will still be picking rice or working in Robinsons or Mcdonald's 5 or 10 years from now, while the ladyboys who are smart with their cash will be living a better lifestyle in the country. and yes, I am not stupid or Naive......I KNOW that many are lead into the 'life' BECAUSE of the small wage scale for regular jobs and even cabaret shows. But if they make that jump from nice girl to bar girl so they can compound their income by 10 times, don't keep bitching about how hard life is; think about the way it was BEFORE you got into hooking.
just my take on things......ladyboys have it rough, but I think the majority of people in that 18-25 year old grouping have it just as hard, and they don't have the ability to use something as unique and exotic as having a dual identity to make extra cash. Ladyboys who are pretty can make big money, sometimes just from sucker sponsors oversea's, while their contemporaries bust their ass on construction projects and digging ditches and waiting on asshole westerners while making peanuts.
Jon
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