Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Leaving the tourist zone (2, final)


Tinker entertains the men while they are here. When they go back home, they send her money.

Farang C had told me about one of her sponsors, an occasional visitor in his 30s called David.

In a bold moment, I asked her about Mr David.

Tinker looked surprised. No girl wants people outside the 'zone' to know that she sells her body.

She described him, and showed me his picture, which she took on her cellphone. However, she did not tell me how they met.

Good girls don't meet men in bars; still less do they take them to bed for money like Tinker.

'At first I did not like farang. I was scared of them....they have such big bodies,' she said.

'I had never met one before I came to Bangkok, and my brother never introduced me to any foreigners.

'But now I have decided that I like them - sometimes more than Thai men, who are unfaithful towards women,' she said.

'I was a shy girl,' she insisted. 'I did not lose my virginity until late. My father, who is Chinese, was strict about letting young men seeing me.'

Tinker is no longer so bashful, but we didn't go into that.

After a couple of hours, Tinker and farang C left to go back to town.

Tinker wanted to visit her women friends at the bar.

According to farang C, who went with her, Tinker latched herself on to two foreign customers as soon as she arrived. While she chatted away, farang C amused himself playing pool in another part of the bar.

One the men lives here, but the other farang was a tourist. What did tinker see in him? Money, I suppose.

How many foreign sponsors is enough for a woman of the night? I should have asked.

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