Supply and demand
I found an interesting article the other day about tastes in internet porn. It was based on a new book by two academics named Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, entitled A Billion Wicked Thoughts. I don’t know how scientific their research was, but they have come up with some interesting facts.
One is that men, even straight men, like looking at pictures of dicks. I think this might go back deep into adolescence. When you are very young and everything is just springing into life, you don’t mind flashing your new manhood around in the changing room, and you are curious to see how your mates are doing.
That doesn’t mean that you are potentially gay: it is only a natural interest. But the feelings of emerging sexuality are so strong that it is likely that the intense curiousity and the excitement of the moment stays with you. Consequently, although you would never even consider a sexual encounter with another man, the sight of a big erect dick still arouses interest and admiration.
Which brings me onto a second point the researchers make, which is that T-girl sites, as they call them, are the fourth most popular category of website porn.
This to me is no great surprise. I have watched over the years, since the earliest days of the internet, as the popularity of the third sex has increased. In the long-ago days of the mid 1990s, you could have counted the number of ladyboy sites on the fingers of one hand. But a few years later that number had grown, and a handful of photographers, yours truly included, had discovered the potential of Thailand as a source for models.
That in turn has helped spur the growth of the ladyboy scene in Thailand, because so many visitors now come here either specifically for ladyboy companionship, or to go to ladyboy bars and cabarets.
So in that brief period of time, the ladyboy has emerged as a sexual force in her own right. Before the internet, few people knew of the ladyboys of Southeast Asia. Only those who had travelled to this part of the world, and I would venture to say that even they probably weren’t that interested: it was genetic girls they were after.
No one knew of the beauty of the ladyboy, the sheer seductiveness. It was only the photography that brought this out to a mass market. Beforehand, a ladyboy would have been regarded as a joke, or a freak. But suddenly, their true beauty was revealed.
I remember in the very early days when I was taking photos, I would take my laptop into the room in which I was working and because the camera memory chips had only a small capacity I would pause halfway through a shoot to download onto the hard drive. The model would come and look over my shoulder, and time and time again I would hear a little gasp as she saw how she looked on the screen. She quite possibly would never have seen clear photographs of herself in full makeup, and certainly not in the nude. Don’t forget – digital cameras were a rarity then.
Ladyboys of course quickly realised their own potential, and the potential they had for making a living. More and more youngsters decided to follow the course. The demand for hormones grew, and the prices fell. Soon it became so easy and so cheap to buy hormones that youngsters just entering adolescence were able to buy them. A whole new generation of ladyboys began to spring up. The number of websites continued to grow. The number of visitors in search of ladyboys grew. The number of ladyboy outlets grew. The supply of ladyboys grew in proportion.
I think I deserve a medal from the Tourism Authority of Thailand. But somehow I don’t think I’ll get one.
Posted: May 26th, 2011 under General.
Tags: The ladyboy experience
Comments
Comment from willie wanker
Time May 31, 2011 at 1:13 pm
blimey captain, i could be up that like a rat up a drainpipe.
Comment from Dreamer
Time June 1, 2011 at 7:22 am
If there had been a girl like this in the same class at my school, I would have grown up to be a different person!
Comment from Tizwoz
Time June 3, 2011 at 12:39 pm
I remember going to one of the early LB bars, the Crackhouse, which wasnt far from Nana but on the other side of the road. It was the first LB-only bar I had ever seen and i was blown away by the beauty of the girls on the stage. I had never seen so many good lookers together in one place. I suppose the Crackhouse is closed now? I havent heard anything about it for a long time.
Comment from Captain Outrageous
Time June 3, 2011 at 1:29 pm
The Crack House was almost on the corner of Soi 15, Tizwoz. The little enclave of bars there was flattened some years ago and a hotel is under construction on the site. Building work has however been suspended for at least two years now, as the owner is reportedly having cash flow problems. The building is almost complete, but is covered by black safety netting.
Comment from lollipop licker
Time June 8, 2011 at 5:30 pm
B4 the LB bars arrived I used to wait in Patpong where the freelancers would start to arrive at about eleven oclock. But it was all a bit hit n miss as some nights there was no one there I fancied at all. I used to sit in the Kings Garden where they had pool tables and which was a big bar with an open front, so I could see all the gurls as they came through. Trouble was often I would drink too many beer Singhas by the time they all started to appear, and then the evening would pass without yours truly getting his rocks off. One night I picked up this tall ladyboy and I’d had too much beer and was having trouble rising to the occasion. So my lady love laid on top of me so that our cocks were pressed together and she rubbed up and down on me and came all over the place. I didn’t though. And next morning I found that with her laying on my leg I had pulled a muscle, and I spent the next few days limping. That was not one of my finer moments.
Comment from Sargent Shameless
Time June 9, 2011 at 2:58 am
My point exactly on less and less plentiful bargirls in contrast with more and more barladyboys.
In my view same-sex sexual experimentation takes getting over same-sex repulsion which is naturally and society induced. In my case it took me until my late 20s to consider the possibility of sex with a passable TS and until my early 30s to actually do it. With the advent of the internet, the awareness of gorgeous TS from Brazil, Thailand, Japan will induce such sexual fantasies at an early age, and fullfilling them is getting easier than ever by the increasing number of TS not just in Thailand, but everywhere else. In Europe having sex with a gorgeous Brazilian or Thai TS is now as easy as with a female prostitute. Even gorgeous non-prostitute TS can be seen in clubs and mainstream enternainment. IT IS TRULY THE ADVENT OF THE THIRD-SEX. Thailand leads in numbers and social acceptance, but the rest of the world is gaining also.
I dont know about you deserving a medal Captain, but if you could get 1 Baht for each of the macho males worldwide lusting at your ladyboy pics you could retire tomorrow and live like a king the rest of your days. LONG LIVE THE CAPTAIN!
Comment from amused
Time June 9, 2011 at 4:29 am
Captain, i think me likes when you write cocky knowitall and sign as sargent
Comment from Captain Outrageous
Time June 9, 2011 at 9:29 am
The Sargent is the Sargent, Amused, and I am me. We are not the same person. We live on opposite sides of the world. Indeed, I believe the Sargent has his own planet.
Comment from Mancunian
Time June 9, 2011 at 1:50 pm
I live in Manchester. If anyone can tell me where to find a gorgeous Brazilian, Japanese or Thai TS in Manchester, I would be pathetically grateful. It is getting serious. I am losing interest in women but the gay scene makes me want to puke.
Comment from Private Parts
Time June 9, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Any room here for the lower ranks?
Comment from Sargent Shameless
Time June 9, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Mancunian, you are in luck. one of my former pattaya sleepbuddies now plies her trade in Manchester. I am not gonna post her contact here, but if you leave an e-m I can send.
But to tell you the truth I wonder if you are just teasing as there are hundreds of shemales escorts in the UK listed on classifieds and internet. Some of the top Brazilian pornstars are there permanently or visiting, plus Asians and Russians and girlie Brits. You dont need to look far. All you need is 100 quid minimum and plenty of KY jelly.
Comment from bum luvver
Time May 27, 2011 at 10:05 am
what a beautiful arse this girl has, cap’n. we both like the same thing, obviously.