Think the luster has finally faded

[simplelife 57]

First 3 months in Thailand was like being in some magical place, I still remember just being in a trance as I walked up and down Sukhumvit (in BKK). Now in Pattaya 2.5 years later and I can't believe I'm saying it, but the magic is mostly gone.

 

I mean, if I consciously remember the stressed commute, lack of sex, high rents etc of the US then I can still objectively say Thailand is better. But walking around day to day the Disneyland feel is gone and sex is like a higher end version of a Big Mac.

 

I guess I should have known that it would all normalize eventually. Do you guys have any way of bringing back the spark, or have you accepted that this is how it's going to be? I have thought about going back to the US for 6 months to starve myself a little and get back the feeling, to remind myself why Thailand was (and still is) so great in the first place.

 

 

[jacko 8,822]

A six month stint working in Saudi used to do it for me!

[Gary 4,119]

I was working in Thailand until the economy crashed. I was paid in baht which meant that I was making about half of what I had been making. I accepted an offer in Kalifornia for very good money. I was there for about a week finding that I hated SoCal. I spent the next five years trying to figure out how to get back to Thailand.

 

It turned out quite well for me. Since I was making a lot of money in Kalifornia I topped up my Social Security account and even got a small pension from the company. My savings account was healthy and I was able to retire and get back to Thailand.

 

I well remember sitting in the big bird at Don Muang thinking that I would likely never see Thailand again. I had no idea that I would miss Thailand as much as I did.

 

My boss at the Kalifornia factory was very good to me. He realized how much I missed Thailand. I made two trips a year, two weeks over the fourth of July and three weeks over Christmas and New Years. If not for those holidays, I don't know if I could have stuck it out for those LONG five years.

 

So yes, a long visit back to the US will convince you that Thailand is a pretty good place to live. The women I met in Kalifornia had all been married to bastards, had kids and enough baggage that it was easy to understand why they were divorced.

[Bazle 1,500]

I understand what the OP is saying.

 

Sometimes I think that being in Patts is a bit like a parched man being thrown into a reservoir and drowning!

[yogi100 1,925]

First 3 months in Thailand was like being in some magical place, I still remember just being in a trance as I walked up and down Sukhumvit (in BKK). Now in Pattaya 2.5 years later and I can't believe I'm saying it, but the magic is mostly gone.

 

I mean, if I consciously remember the stressed commute, lack of sex, high rents etc of the US then I can still objectively say Thailand is better. But walking around day to day the Disneyland feel is gone and sex is like a higher end version of a Big Mac.

 

I guess I should have known that it would all normalize eventually. Do you guys have any way of bringing back the spark, or have you accepted that this is how it's going to be? I have thought about going back to the US for 6 months to starve myself a little and get back the feeling, to remind myself why Thailand was (and still is) so great in the first place.

 

 

 

I alternate between the UK and Pattaya by spending three months in each country using a multi entry visa.

 

After a while the novelty wears off and the attitude of the locals has definitely deteriorated in recent years. We're also getting older and our sex drive is diminishing or it will do eventually. But even Pattaya on a bad day beats our lives in our Western homelands practically all the time.

 

I've got two ex pat chums who have been in the LOS and the PI for upwards of twenty years. Neither of them ever takes a girl back to their lodgings, sex no longer means anything to either of them. In fact they rarely have a good word to say about Thai women. One is 64 and the other is about 58. I used to think they were a bit peculiar but now I can see how they've got that way. But they keep themselves busy and have interests that occupy a good bit of their time, both of them spend hours each day on the internet.

 

But neither of them could stay for long back in the UK, both have been back in the last couple of years ago and hated what had become of their parts of the country, it had also become much more expensive than they were used to in Pattaya although I can live on much less in London than I do in Pattaya but unlike my two pals I still have some interest in the girls although admittedly not like I used to have.

 

"Do you guys have any way of bringing back the spark,"

 

If there was a surefire way that I knew of I'd tell you. A lot of it is to do with our aging process, we do not like to admit it but it's true. One way that I found that definitely works is to travel around Pattaya a bit more. I stay near LKM and after a while it becomes a bit stale so I make a point of getting out and about a bit further. Last night I went to Walking Street and another evening I went to Sois 7 & 8 and it made a refreshing change.

 

But it was a bit of a shock to see how quiet some GGBs were for the 22nd of December. Alcatraz and the Beach Club had less than 10 punters a piece in them when I was in them! I remember at this time of the year in the past you'd have your work cut out finding a lass who took your fancy. There's definitely less money about than there was years ago.

[teelack 9,645]

Yogi. Here is my take. I believe that your sex drive is enhanced and prolonged by being in Thailand. I had given it away at home but can't get enough in Thailand. The cute, giving, sexy and totally available ladies make this a joy. As for my age, well I am heading to 75 and aim for one month in Thailand followed by two or three months away and this works for me like a charm.

 

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[yogi100 1,925]

Yogi. Here is my take. I believe that your sex drive is enhanced and prolonged by being in Thailand. I had given it away at home but can't get enough in Thailand. The cute, giving, sexy and totally available ladies make this a joy. As for my age, well I am heading to 75 and aim for one month in Thailand followed by two or three months away and this works for me like a charm.

 

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I'm just about still in my sixties and I'm beginning to lose interest although I spend nearly every evening in GGBs. I don't mind buying a few LDs as long as I like the girl concerned and she does not start the 'dink for my sister' routine but that's getting to be the norm in GGBs now. And obviously I like watching them dance.

 

I've noticed this decline in my sex drive over the last six months in particular. Although I know what you mean about 'The cute, giving, sexy and totally available ladies make this a joy.' When you meet such girls it still gives me a boost but many of the GGB divas are no longer like that. A lot of 'em are just drink poncing, money grabbing mercenary little bitches who simply want to get as much out of the punter as they possibly can for as little effort in return, but that's the nature of their job now. It's the business they've entered.

 

I only barfine the ones I've got to know very well and have no interest in the younger girls. I go for girls who are normally over 30 and they're not always GGGs, I've had freelancers and BBGs as well over the years. . The older ones are more clued up as to how to treat their punters and of course we've all got our own tastes in women.

 

These days I just stick to ST arrangements made over the phone which are nearly always conducted during the day light hours. Like many long time bachelors who come to Pattaya I do not seem inclined or able to enter a more serious or permanent relationship. Some may find this attitude rather shallow.

[Bullfrog 2,224]

 

These days I just stick to ST arrangements made over the phone which are nearly always conducted during the day light hours. Like many long time bachelors who come to Pattaya I do not seem inclined or able to enter a more serious or permanent relationship. Some may find this attitude rather shallow.

 

How many of them are married or in permanent relationships???? How many have you known for 15 years or more?

 

Your double standards are shocking...

 

At least I am only talking about one!!

Edited December 23, 2016 by Bullfrog

[Bazle 1,500]

Like many long time bachelors who come to Pattaya I do not seem inclined or able to enter a more serious or permanent relationship. Some may find this attitude rather shallow.

Sadly, I'm with you on this.

[yogi100 1,925]

 

How many of them are married or in permanent relationships???? How many have you known for 15 years or more?

 

Your double standards are shocking...

 

At least I am only talking about one!!

 

All the girls I am referring to work selling sexual services for a living, they are either GGGs, freelancers or BBGs, or in less delicate terms they are what is known collectively as prostitutes. Apart from shop girls and hotel staff every girl I've had anything to do with in Pattaya has been on the game. And from what we occasionally hear some of Pattaya's hotel staff and shop girls are not as pure as the driven snow either especially when a bit of money is concerned.

 

Now do you seriously think that I or anyone else who engages the services of these lasses is going to start making inquiries as to whether or not they are in 'permanent relationships'? I'm really not interested. It's not my business and if I did ask they'd say 'No' anyway. Picture the scenario.

 

The punter says, "How much do you want".

"Two thousand baht" replies the prostitute.

"Now you don't have a boyfriend or a husband do you" asks the punter,"because that wouldn't be right".

"Of course not Tilac" says she.

 

Imagine the laughs she'll get later on when she tells her chums about this strange Falang she'd just been with!

 

Shagging my pals' girlfriends or wives holds no allure for me in a town full of professional sex workers. In nearly all cases it would be the best way to lose those pals if ever they find out.

 

Kindly expand on what you mean when you claim that 'Your double standards are shocking...' I honestly fail to see what double standards I'm availing myself of and even if I am how they could be described as shocking except by the most dedicated puritan.

 

Er, this is a forum mainly dedicated to a town where punters habitually go with women for money. You are aware of that aren't you.

[BigDUSA 71]

Check out http://udonmap.com/udonthaniforum/ Sometimes a change of scenery can do wonders for the old spark. Nha Trang in Vietnam is a mongers sweet spot. Same can be said for Cambodia and the Philippines.

Edited December 23, 2016 by BigDUSA

[SimplySam 517]

First 3 months in Thailand was like being in some magical place, I still remember just being in a trance as I walked up and down Sukhumvit (in BKK). Now in Pattaya 2.5 years later and I can't believe I'm saying it, but the magic is mostly gone.

 

I mean, if I consciously remember the stressed commute, lack of sex, high rents etc of the US then I can still objectively say Thailand is better. But walking around day to day the Disneyland feel is gone and sex is like a higher end version of a Big Mac.

 

I guess I should have known that it would all normalize eventually. Do you guys have any way of bringing back the spark, or have you accepted that this is how it's going to be? I have thought about going back to the US for 6 months to starve myself a little and get back the feeling, to remind myself why Thailand was (and still is) so great in the first place.

 

 

 

Just keep your focus on the special sauce.

[atlas2 4,329]

'Familiarity breeds contempt'............

 

I've heard that said so often I'm fed-up with it!

 

 

However, it's true.

 

Today is Christmas Eve.......Any of us here still feel the same about it as we did when we were 7yrs old?

 

If you want to recapture the magic of Christmas look through a child's eyes.

 

Perhaps here it helps the old tired farts amongst us to look through the eyes of visiting friends.

[teelack 9,645]

'Familiarity breeds contempt'............

 

I've heard that said so often I'm fed-up with it!

 

 

However, it's true.

 

Today is Christmas Eve.......Any of us here still feel the same about it as we did when we were 7yrs old?

 

If you want to recapture the magic of Christmas look through a child's eyes.

 

Perhaps here it helps the old tired farts amongst us to look through the eyes of visiting friends.

 

I was always told that familiarity breeds!