Thai Female Elite Demand Black Gigolos

[peggygee]

The long-perpetrated image of the black man as a sexual toy continues to flourish as the niche market for black male prostitutes in Thailand booms.

Escort services are now importing hundreds of prospective black gigolos from Jamaica and Africa into the Asian country to satisfy the surge in the demand for these services among the Thai female elite.

A research project, recently completed by Associate Professor of Sociology Nither Tinnakul, from the Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, puts the number of male prostitutes in Thailand at a staggering 30,000, triple the estimated amount of just two years ago.

Among the reasons for this phenomenon, cited in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) interview, are the lingering effects of the Asian economic crisis and the women's need for revenge against their philandering husbands.

"I think the women want some equal rights you know, some kind of freedom. She needs something," Tinnakul said.

Apparently, this is a need that these black foreign prostitutes or "forungs" have aptly satisfied. The report further stated that Thai women are paying upwards of 10,000 baht (243 dollars) per night for the servicers, who are "fiercer", more "thrilling" in bed than their Thai peers and "well built."

Such comments have triggered a fierce reaction from black men who live in the capital and have elicited several accusations of racial stereotyping. Christopher Thorpe, a 20-year-old Electrical Engineering major at Morgan State University opined, "It is interesting when you look at the way black males are viewed as aggressive, virile lovers in society, but that is all we are seen as; we're not seen as intelligent, progressive or caring. These same women who would pay [black men] for sex are those who ascribe to the same stereotype that we are violent and a general menace to society."

Another Morganite senior Aisha Goodridge felt that the issue went just beyond black men. "This is not surprising; it goes with the myth that women of different cultures believe that black men have a lot of sexual prowess," she said. "I do not feel particularly degraded because it is a black man; it is just another sad degradation and I would have felt the same if it was a man of another rae."

The issue has also scandalized Thais; since in paying for the favors of these men, Thai women are defying tradition. An Agence France Presse article reported that a top politician asserted that all the hoopla about foreign gigolos raised by Tinnakul's report was undermining the family and making men suspicious of their wives. In response to the backlash engendered by his report, however, Tinnakul attributed the uproar to the uncovering of what is otherwise viewed as a taboo subject.

"This exist in the Thai society, you have to have the subject – just look at the English newspaper for example. You look at advertising, you will find lots of advertising about this kind of job," he said in the ABC interview. "[This topic is not talked about] because this is something—people don't think it exists in Thai society, or maybe think it's not a good thing to talk about it."


http://media.www.msuspokesman.com/me...s-318113.shtml

[TsVanessa69]

So I should be paying my black boy toy???
wouldnt that be unfair to my latino and white boy toys?
LOL

Some boys here think they should be paid, I hope they don't see this and expect payment from me.

[BLKGSXR]

So I should be paying my black boy toy???
wouldnt that be unfair to my latino and white boy toys?
LOL

Some boys here think they should be paid, I hope they don't see this and expect payment from me.

only ryz will want that, well mostly because hes canadian....Their currency isnt worth much riiight hehe lol

[Fox]

Well, now I know where to go if I really fall on hard times. lol

[Alyssa87]

I had a cable guy here on Monday who was black.
I COULD NOT CONCENTRATE!!!
I was trying to tell him about the problem with my modem, and i was stumbling over my words.
I offered him something to drink, when i really wanted to offer...mmm-
sooooo foine

I would have broke the piggybank for him


j/k

[TsVanessa69]

So I should be paying my black boy toy???
wouldnt that be unfair to my latino and white boy toys?
LOL

Some boys here think they should be paid, I hope they don't see this and expect payment from me.

only ryz will want that, well mostly because hes canadian....Their currency isnt worth much riiight hehe lol

nah. he'll plow my pussy into next year for free.

[BLKGSXR]

So I should be paying my black boy toy???
wouldnt that be unfair to my latino and white boy toys?
LOL

Some boys here think they should be paid, I hope they don't see this and expect payment from me.

only ryz will want that, well mostly because hes canadian....Their currency isnt worth much riiight hehe lol

nah. he'll plow my pussy into next year for free.

I know Youll have to pay him Hehe haha JK of course

[farang]

Farung or Farang is the Thai word for any foreigner who is WHITE . Black people are referred to as Africa or Negro.
I think the report which is 7 years old is obviously compiled by someone who has no knowledge of Thailand.

[Iluminati]

Interesting news. A bit old, but interesting nonetheless.

[peggygee]

Farung or Farang is the Thai word for any foreigner who is WHITE . Black people are referred to as Africa or Negro.
I think the report which is 7 years old is obviously compiled by someone who has no knowledge of Thailand.

Sawadee ka,

I've spent a fair amount of time in Southeast Asia, Thailand in particular,
and I would agree that "farang" usually has the connotation of foreigners
of European descent.

However, a term that has gained coinage is farang dam (black farang) in
Thai: ฝรั่งดำ , the term gained popularity with the large influx of Black
servicemen during the Vietnam conflict.

The article is indeed several years old, but I do recall being struck by the
large numbers of Africans, specifically men that I encountered when I was
last there in 2008.