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Thais like to think that prostituttion didn[’t exist within their borders until its introduction by the Chinese, however the country since time immemorial has fiercely upheld the tradition of mia yai / mia noi or big wife / small wife. This form of bigamy is widely accepted in all levels of society from kings to […]

It’s 8am and no sign of Easter Egg unters along Pattaya’s Beach Road. Most Christian are sleeping off celebratory drunks, hoping to rise from the dead for a recuperative beer in the late afternoon.

The Thais’ awareness of the Christian religious holiday comes from TV broadcasts of Filipinos flailing themselves into a messianic frenzy before subjecting […]

Evil lurked everywhere in 1965 and our 7th Grade Catholic school teacher, Sister Mary Josef, warned her male students in a special assembly that not only masturbation would condemn boys to hell, but repeated self-abuse led to hair sprouting from our palms and worst case scenario, blindness.

“Idle hands are the tools of the devil. Even […]

Many of westerners live in the Orient without fully understanding the spirituality of the East. We are trapped by the Ten Commandments or our own preconceived notions of life. All humans might have to pull down their pants to go the bathroom, but few farangs will stand on the toilet seat to take a piss. […]

Back in the 90s my cousin Sharon Mitchell came to perform at the ShowWorld in New York. She and I were invited to the Fire Island cottage of Robin Byrd, famed XXX cable TV spokesperson. The short ferry ride brought vacationers to the sandy coastal island. There are no cars. No 7/11s. Only the occasional […]