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I’d planned on writing a post about the time I offed a mamasan today. This isn’t it. I got side tracked. And then thought it’d be fun to just keep dropping hints about the time I offed a mamasan rather than actually post the tale. Just to drive y’all crazy. I’m not sure how that ended up with me spending the morning clicking through videos on YouTube; that’s not something I usually do. Anymore than offing mamasans in Bangkok. Friends, fans, and people with even more time on their hands than I have occasionally send me links to YouTube videos, usually gay-related short films, that I’ll watch, but I seldom just surf through clips for the hell of it. There’s just too many videos of cute kittens doing funny things to avoid. But I know there’s porn on YouTube too, so I gave it a try.
Huh. This could become a recurring post. For when I’m bored. Or busy not writing about the time I offed a mamasan. As expected there are lots of short videos featuring naked male Asian flesh. There are many full length non-porn gay movies (that still feature naked male Asian flesh) too, though they are often divided into a dozen or so parts. So who can bother? Bangkok Love Story is well represented in various lengths, languages, snippets . . . it’d be easier to rent the dvd. But running across all those videos did remind me it was about time I watched that movie again. It’s a bit saccharine, and being Thai overly dramatized, but I’ll gladly watch Chaiwat Thongsang emote his ass off any day of the week.
What I hadn’t expected was the huge number of travel-related videos. Whodathunk YouTube would be an invaluable source for researching a trip to Bangkok? You can spend hours, for example, checking out reviews and photos on hotel booking sites to try to determine if a particular hotel would be to your liking, or you can go to YouTube and check out a video of the place. That provides a much more accurate picture of what you’ll get when you check in. Ditto for restaurants. And if you are the shy type and want to know just what you are in for during a visit to G.O.D., DJ Station, or Babylon there are plenty of videos that provide a taste of that experience for you too.
There are clips of various non-gay non-nightlife areas, and videos of monks chanting at Wat Pho. You can find out what it is like to ride in a tuk tuk, or cruise the Chao Phraya. BTS stations are covered well, there are even videos that walk you through the airport from disembarking to getting to immigration. Granted, some take the phrase ‘amateur video’ to new heights, but for a first time visitor they can be quite useful in planning a trip.
Soi Twilight and Soi 4, their pubs and clubs, are all covered as well as many special events held at both. Pick a year, pick an event, and if you were there it will not only bring back fond memories but you may find you were caught on some other touri’s holiday movie. For those stuck back in their home country counting down the days until their next trip, these videos provide a nice little touch of Thailand until it can become a reality for you once again.
So I thought I’d share some videos I ran across with you today, meaning I suddenly realized I had a post that needed to be written and was running out of time. These are all quickies, most under two minutes in length with some even shorter. Longer short movies I’ll still link to in an End of the Week Post.
Since I mentioned Bangkok Love Story, this is a small clip from the movie set to Linkin Park’s “In Pieces”.
And while I’m on the subject of Chaiwat Thongsang, this is a two and a half minute video of Tob working out in a pair of gym shorts and then finishing up in the steam room.
Two Thai Boys Meet Ghost is an under a minute long extremely cute video you really have to watch. Okay, there’s naked male ass . . . now are you convinced?
Young & Hung is a fashion show at Babylon Sauna featuring a lot of hot guys modeling underwear.
This is a campy Chines boy’s video of the Rose Hotel, nothing to write home about but then neither is the Rose. But if you haven’t stayed there and wonder if it really is worth the nods it gets on the gay Thailand message boards, this video gives you a much truer picture of the place. Okay, so he didn’t film the mold growing in the shower, but still . . .
On my list of things to do is a gay club at the Weekend Market that I keep hearing about. And here’s a video of the place.
Just in case you have never been to G.O.D.
Maxis Grand Opening back in 2008 is covered in this video, which includes a bunch of local talent in yet another underwear-centric fashion show.
And lastly, to combat all those cute kitten doing funny things videos, here’s an Indonesian toddler who smokes 40 cigarettes a day. Now That’s cute!
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Wait a minute. Since where is there porn on YouTube? I thought they policed that pretty hard. Not that there is plenty of free porn video collection sites out there helpfully organized by category including Asian.
I think you already told us the story about offing the mamasan
Nice Glenn, you could have made that comment before I spent an hour looking for porn on YouTube.
🙂
But you did give me an excuse to procrastinate over writing about the time I offed a mamasan, while I look for the post I wrote about offing a mamasan (but I think that was about offing a barker).
” Bangkok gaybar Jatujak Market” no name, no directions, and nothing gay in the clip on youtube. There are gay bars that area, and they have names!
Ah Christian, Christian, Christian. Let me start with saying that the post mentioning the gay bar at Chatuchak was not about said bar but about YouTube being a good place for visuals of places you were not familiar with in Bangkok. Note I didn’t give an address for the Rose Hotel or Babylon either. That wasn’t the point of the post.
But. Since you honed in on the bar as a new place to prowl, I’ve written a post today about it. With a name and address. With you in mind. And at first I thought it’d possibly be a good place for you to attempt to expand your talents at social interaction. And then thought it would not be. So let’s talk.
I enjoy reading your trip reports and tales on the message boards. And I don’t think you are quite as off kilter as many others seem to feel. Personally, I think you are having the time of your life and enjoying Thailand much more than most repeat visitors do. Even your failed attempts at getting laid strike me as experiences that many of them would benefit from experiencing. At the same time I’m getting a sexual predator/sex tourist to da max vibe off you as of late. And that’s fine. To each his own. Whatever makes you happy. But you also sound like you want something more. If that is true I’d like to make a suggestion.
Gogo bars and the hunting grounds you frequent are fine when all you are interested in is sex under a commercial arrangement. If you want a friend with whom sex may then become part of the relationship, outside of those arenas you need to change your style. Put making a friend in front of satisfying your penis and its seemingly never ending cry for attention. For example, in your recent post about the Ganesha shrine, in telling about meeting that gaggle of boys in the park, I cringed. Your finger-tickling come-on guaranteed that meeting would go nowhere. I suspect it is not part of your makeup, but you need to learn to relax, and not be so single-minded in your pursuit; in normal relationships there are steps between meeting a guy and having sex with him. Quit trying to ignore and/or skip those steps. It makes you look like a creepy sexual predator. You can get laid without sex being your entire focus. And you seldom will when it is.
So give Viva a try. But don’t go thinking you will find a boy. Go with the mantra that you will make some friends. Even if only for a few hours, with no sex ever entering the picture. Enjoy yourself. Or act like you are. Put a smile on your face. Be friendly, be engaging. Not creepy. Buy someone you are totally not interested in a drink. And do not hit on anyone. You might even end up having a good time. Hell, you might even end up getting laid. If sex is all you are intereested in however, don’t bother. You will not score at Viva.
I’ll also mention that there was a reason those guys tried to get you to buy their booze when you visited Fake. And it wasn’t just because you are a farang. They immediately pegged you. And seriously, you are too young and too not bad looking to be walking into a gay bar and get pegged as a creep on the prowl. You have years ahead of you for that. So either go out to find sex and pay for it if that’s what you really want, or learn to separate those times (and those behaviors) from when you go to a noncommercial venue. Despite what the Pattaya fans on the message boards will tell you, there is a difference.
You tricked me! Jatujak gay bar indeed…scrawny pink and yellow-haired queens with aluminium shutters…REALLY??? YUKKK!
Oh XD . . .
I’s in the market, so those aluminum shutters are the closed stalls next door. The scrawny pink and yellow-haired queens, however, I have no excuse for!
I would never have imagined pink and yellow-haired queens as being anywhere in the market but the poultry reject section.
🙂