A reader, Kate K., drew our attention to this 32-minute documentary about sex tourism in Thailand. The entire video is quite interesting! If you scroll over to the 18 minute mark, you can hear the men and the women explain that European men like Thai women specifically because they, unlike European women, submit (my words, not theirs).
If you have any trouble with the embed, here is the documentary on google video.
Thanks so much, Kate!
I think this link is broken. The video dosen’t seem to load…could be my browser, but I don’t think so.
No, I’m having the same issue as well. Would it be possible to provide a link to the video as well as the embedded version that won’t seem to start?
Done!
Much thanks!
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As a frequent visitor to thailand(and i have a thai girlfriend,shes amazing) i found myself nodding in agreement 2 everything that was said……thailand is f*****g fabulous and 1 thai lady is worth 20 british ones…….
At least one of the men interviewed admitted to being pathetic.
If I went to an impoverished country, I could easily get a man to submit to me if the man had no other way to survive. I could. But I wouldn’t, because I have morals. If I wanted to help someone survive, I would just give them money, not make them sleep with me/cook for me/rub my back, etc. in exchange for rent money. Sick. Both the Western men and Thai women are being used and exploited.
I love how the one man said that Thai women are more honest, then goes on to say how he has no idea whether she is telling the truth when he gives her money for her “ailing grandfather.” Does he hear himself talking?
I also love that they claim they have real relationships with the women, yet aren’t able to hold a conversation with them because the women know very little English as evidenced by the one dim-witted woman who is interviewed sitting on the beach, giggling through most of her interview, talking about how she has 4 men and 4 children. These men are WEIRD.
[...] The idea, specifically, that Asian women are more passive and deferential than white women, has been used to explain white men’s fetish for Asian women, Western men’s sex tourism in Asian countries, and Western men’s use of Asian mail-order bride services. Some of these men, it is argued, want a subordinate partner and they find it difficult to meet a white/American woman who is willing to play that role. You can actually hear a male sex tourist make this argument in this post. [...]
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