An Afternoon With Some Thai Ladyboys
I spent this afternoon with 6 Thai ladyboys. No, don't go thinking that I tried them out. I didn't. I spent a few hours chatting with them, finding about them, trying to understand what makes them tick and learning about their experiences and the guys who utilise their services.
We met up in a central Bangkok bar and over a pleasant lunch we chatted about life in general, and specifically, life as a Thai ladyboy. There are many rumours and much misinformation about ladyboys and I was interested in finding out about the real them, separating the BS from the facts.
5 of the 6 are escorts. 3 are from the north, 2 from the south and 1 from Isaan. 2 are brothers, or is that sisters, and yes, they really do have the same mama and papa. 5 of the 6 tower over me.
3 spoke good English, 3 spoke exceptional English. All 6 had a superior level of education to what you find with the vast majority of the girls in the girly bars and all had what I think I could reasonably describe as a minor level of sophistication. They were open, friendly, chatty and quite frankly, fascinating to talk with.
What follows is a brief 45-minute interview with them as a group. With most of the questions they agreed on an answer that applied to most or all of them and that is what I include here.
You all look like real ladies but obviously you weren't born that way. What changes are made to make you look the way you are now, more feminine?
Normally, most ladyboys take much care about their face. That is the most important part. Normally, we like to get a nose job. Most of the face can be changed by changing our nose and getting silicon injections in our face.
The second part that is very important for ladyboys is our body because we wish to have a body 100%, or as close as we can, to being the same as a lady. We like to have boobs. We all have had an operation on our boobs.
For cutting that, you know what, just some get it done. Most still don't want to cut it. When a ladyboy is born, she was a boy and she has probably hoped to be a real woman since she was quite young.
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