Seymour Totti’s Foreign Policy

Mature Asian women: Not shy and demure any more

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From the novel A killing Smile by Christopher Moore:

“Zeno, Headquarters, HQ, the Star Wars Bar on Sukhumvit. You can’t miss it. Fake Greek columns in front of a sign that reads Turkish Bath, Barber, Massage, Espresso Coffee Shop. Fritters fried in big pots of palm oil outside the entrance. Beggars, bar girls, diplomats, spies, writers, bums, ex-Nazis, merchants, gangsters, tourists drifting in and out, eating at makeshift sidewalk cafes beside food carts and stalls. Cuttlefish and lottery vendors working the crowds. Like you, they’re all looking for shamans and ghosts.”

The Greek pillars and the massage parlour have gone now, the original building was demolished. But within days of the original closing, in 1996, a new one opened just a few doors away. It is now in the basement of Ruamchitt Plaza, 199 Sukhumvit Road. Some of the surroundings have changed, since Moore’s description, but the overall atmosphere remains.

It first opened in the 60’s. Cheap beer and cheap women made it a popular hangout for GIs on R&R from Vietnam. It was one of a number of bars that included Thai Yanok, The Blue Fox and the Grace Hotel coffee shop. Thermae is the only one left.

Approaching from Nana it is on the left. You have to elbow your way through a forest of market stalls where package tourists from all over the world come to haggle for cheap trinkets and t-shirts. An illuminated yellow sign points out the steps down to Thermae from behind a barrier of motorbikes. Most tourists don’t see it, it’s not mentioned in the glossy brochures.

From Asok side food-stalls still line the pavement. Streetwalkers give you the eye making you feel like a piece of meat … wonderful. But it’s harder to spot the yellow sign from this direction. Keep an eye over your right shoulder.

Mature Asians: Making up for lost time

Thermae is not for the squeamish. An elongated S-shaped table illuminated by lurid coloured strip lights takes up the centre of the room. This forces everyone to always be looking at someone else. There are a few of the more conventional, table-for-four type booths around the edges but not many. The whole point of Thermae is that you don’t go there with old friends, you go there to find new ones. Ones with whom you can have uncomplicated guilt free sex soon after having met them.

It opens at eight but it remains pretty empty until about 10.30. Then, on a good night, it becomes MILF Central. One woman told me she gets the bus down from Pattaya every Friday afternoon. After a week of renting beach umbrellas she wants to get away, leave the brollies to her daughter and son-in-law, and have a bit of fun. And it’s more profitable she tells me.

Another very attractive woman wasn’t strictly a MILF. “Cannot have baby so no Thai man want marry me.” She wasn’t able to explain what the problem had been. It seemed she’d had an operation when she was very young which had made her infertile. “When I want someone take care me I come here. It’s good, I can make good money too.”

After midnight the place really starts to fill up, a last chance saloon for young and old, the pretty and the pretty ugly. People who haven’t yet found what they are looking for, people who haven’t yet figured out what they are looking for.

I go for the MILFs. Often you’ll find that they were not involved in the sex industry when they were younger. They were more typically conservative Asian women, divorced, widowed, or just sick and tired of being a conservative Asian woman. Now they are reclaiming ownership of their sex lives and doing the best they can to make up for lost time. Their need for a good fuck is often just as urgent as their desire to make a little extra cash.

The last one I went with had gone from being a divorcee working in a mini-mart and was well on her way to being a property tycoon. She owned three small apartments, two of which she rented the third she lived in but was planning to sell to buy a bigger one.

“I have money, I have freedom,” she told me, “if I want boom boom I come here, I only fuck people I like.” I wondered if that meant I could get a freebie. She looked at me sideways. “OK” she said, “but if you finnish first you pay”

Website: Mature Asia
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