Hunter-Killer Tactics
Da and Fah are two beautiful women and they are working the bars with an
unusual level of skill. The "twins" size up the crowd at a "freelance bar" in
Patpong with an abnormally keen sense of opportunity. They were actually born
13 months apart, but their strikingly similar physical characteristics make
them "twins", or at the very least "sisters", when working the customers.
Individual sexy, beautiful women are easy to find in Thailand's sex industry.
But sisters, "twins" or not, are unique and a fetishist's dream.
They have monetized their strikingly similar looks as twins in their favor in
the sex industry.
"We work together. We are the same," Fah says. "Farang [Westerners] want
fantasy. We live together, we sleep together and when a farang wants it,
we have sex together."
"We do," Da says and, never wanting to miss an opportunity, continues, "You
want go with sisters?"
Sister's Plight
Another bar in Patpong (Soi 1) whose sign and tagline say "Sisters, Take Two"
seems interesting in the same vein. However, upon inspection it is a
disappointing and tiny bar that claims the daytime hours and customers
(businessmen and professionals) drive their short-time business.
Asking the mamasan about "sisters", one finds that there are no actual sisters
in the group. "All of the girls here are sisters," she argues. Although the
camaraderie is admirable, one cannot help but be disappointed by the lack of
real sisters - is this not false advertising?
On to Soi Cowboy, and there is the Long Gun go-go bar that does a very
convincing lesbian show. The girls look only nominally like each other, but
they are sisters and take a similar, focused approach to customers as the
Patpong sisters.
Want one girl? Good. Want two girls? Sisters, twins? Even better.
Bar fines remain about the same, averaging about 400 THB (about USD $12.50) per
girl. But this is obviously a double bar fine that causes the mamasan to look
on approvingly. Now, when dealing with the girls' fees things are slightly
inflated. The average "short-time" cost for a single girl is approximately
1,000-1,500 THB (about USD $31-$47). But with the girls working under the guise
of a familial ménage à trois, the price is 1,500-2,000 THB (about USD
$47-$62.50) per girl and is generally non-negotiable.
So such an affair could set a punter back some 4,800 THB (about USD $150) for
two girls for three hours. Not to mention the cost of a short-time room or a
hotel, lady drinks and possibly food if the ladies are so inclined.
Patpong's 'Twins'
Going full circle, we end up back at the noisy Muzzik Cafe on the crossroads of
Patpong Soi 1 and 2. Wedged between two extremely friendly and flirtatious
"twins" (aka sisters), a writer can slowly glean facts while being fondled and
propositioned if the bar tab is open and giving.
Fah, who is seemingly the more chatty of the pair, admits that, working about
five days per week on average, they can make between 40,000 and 100,000 THB
depending on myriad variables. No matter the variables, even at their low end
of 40,000 THB a month they are making more than a college-educated
administrative assistant.
"Sometimes we are lazy. Da is very lazy," Fah admonishes while Da pretends to
ignore her. "When we get multiple customers, either together or individually,
and make money, Da uses it as an excuse to take a day or two off." Fah is
obviously unimpressed by her sister's work ethic.
Da ignores her and homes in on a target of opportunity.
Fah talks a bit more about the work, the pressure, the benefits, the need to do
it to make a decent living and support the family, until a signal comes up from
her sister in arms that it is time to execute a consorted attack. Fah excuses
herself with a peck on my cheek and an amorous glare to remind me that if
things don't work out with the current target, I might be sighted as a
potential replacement.
The somewhat elderly customer is obviously taken by Da, who first approached
him. She holds his gaze and attention as her hips gyrate in her
micro-miniskirt. He never sees the sneak attack coming that ups the ante in a
way that might be impossible to measure.
Fah sidles up behind him, begins massaging his shoulders, but when he attempts
to turn to see this new arrival, she covers his eyes and whispers some sort of
sweet nothing into his ear. When he is finally allowed to look, he is taken
aback to say the least. A moment ago he had one of the most beautiful girls in
the bar fawning over him - now they seem to have multiplied, along with his
luck.
Drinks are bought, very questionable dancing ensues with the farang leading
his two honeys, and as the bar draws down to its close, the twin tactic can be
overheard being put in play.
"You ever have two ladies, twins, take care of you?" Da coos to the punter.
Before he can answer (he is a bit dumbfounded and buzzed on alcohol at this
point), Fah chimes in, "No have customer tonight, I sad!" She feigns
depression: "If you take me and sister, very good time, take very good care for
you!"
To say that our man, the elderly punter, is akin to a deer in the headlights at
this point would be a kind description of the situation.
Minutes later as the house lights slowly come up signaling the end of yet
another evening in Bangkok's red-light district of Patpong, the fellow, now
fully succumbing to the "hunter-killer" twin team, leaves feeling victorious,
with his ladies hanging off of each arm.
Considering the events of the previous days, the history of these women in the
bars and their performance that night, it is convincing that Thailand's twin
threat in terms of the sex industry is not something to be taken lightly.
Copyright 2007, Asian Sex Gazette
