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There have always been more go go and host bars than the clientele can support. Even in 1995, the year of my first visit, there were bars in or near Boyztown that were almost empty and had closed by the time I returned. It was the same in Bangkok, Patong and Chiang Mai. And that pattern continued for twenty plus years. In Jomtien, of the twenty or so host bars (yes, I counted one evening) there were three or four that were always empty when I looked apart from a couple of bored hosts. A culling of bars of 20, 30 or even 40% would be very sad for the owners but not necessarily for the staff, who would find employment elsewhere, and certainly not for the punters. Everyone knows that a vibrant, busy bar draws customers, just as a vibrant, busy soi does.

PeterRS has detailed up the responses pretty well above. Sex trade is the business, and bars is just the medium. And to me and all of us that adores thailand, a unique medium compared to many other places in the world. I can get massages here in malaysia, or pretty much everywhere i travel to, i can get MB from apps all the same. But a gogobar, with mamasan, the boys, the show, the intimacy inside the bars, the thai hospitality and of course affordable, is what kept is coming to the LOS. For me, other than LT, i lose cost advantages compared to what i can get back home, but there is nothing close to what the gogobars offers in thailand that i can get back home, especially the quality, variety, and huge quantity of boys all in one convinient place that a bar hopping can be done in one night. So due to this reason, i do believe its a temporary setback. Onwers of the bars might change hands but once the disease is contained, the bars will resume.

Actor Ken Osmond, who played Eddie Haskell on Leave It To Beaver, died today in Los Angeles at the age of 76. The NY Daily News reports: "Osmond’s character on the iconic 1950s sitcom was famous for falsely flattering adults in one scene and then scheming behind their backs in the next. He was so memorable in the role, he found it difficult to get other acting work when the beloved show that ran from 1957 to 1963 on CBS and NBC finally ended." Variety reports: Osmond portrayed Haskell as sycophantic to grownups while making fun of them behind their backs. He was a high school friend of Wally Cleaver, older brother of Theodore “the Beaver” Cleaver, and constantly trying to entice his friends into activities that would get them into trouble. During the final years of the show, Osmond was in the U.S. Army Reserve. When the series ended, Osmond continued working as an actor, appearing on “Petticoat Junction,” “The Munsters” and a return appearance on “Lassie.” He appeared in feature films “C’mon, Let’s Live a Little” and “With Six You Get Eggroll,” but found himself typecast as Eddie Haskell. Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988. I was a faithful fan of Leave It To Beaver and had a serious crush on Tony Dow, shown below with The Beaver:

It is temporary. Unlike wars or drastic change in political believes (modern example of north korea and numbers of middle east nation), no diseases have stopped horny human from having sex, paid or free.

No offense, but I am having a little trouble following your thoughts here. But if you are saying that you miss cruising and hooking up, well, that would be pretty normal, especially for a young guy like yourself. And if multiple people miss that as well, then once this is over people will be fucking like bunnies.

And the wonderful Lenny Bruce. I played his comedy albums for a very German friend away back in 1976.

Extracted from The Financial Times Thailand’s travel industry readies for relaunch At Bangkok’s flower-garlanded Erawan shrine, right downstairs from my FT office, the female dancers who have figured in decades’ worth of tourist snaps are back in action. They are wearing the same spired, bejewelled, gold hats but their faces are masked behind plastic shields. Just down the block, staff at the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel are being trained in the deep cleaning of a hotel room, using hospital-grade disinfectants, in preparation for reopening. In the reception, plexiglass shields have been erected at the counter, chairs and tables carefully spaced, and discreet red Xs taped on the floor to mark the spots where guests will wait to check in. Thailand was the first country after China to report coronavirus cases and is among the first to be exiting lockdown. Bangkok is the world’s most visited city, according to Mastercard’s Global Destination Cities Index, and it is also home to international hospitality groups such as Minor Hotels (whose brands include Anantara, Tivoli, Avani and NH) and Sansiri, owner of The Standard Hotels, known for its flagship property straddling New York’s High Line and its recently opened St Pancras hotel. As such, what happens in Thailand can perhaps be seen as a bellwether of global things to come. “Before this hit, tourism was booming; it was a heaven for all nationalities — Europeans, Americans, Chinese, Indians, they all love Thailand,” says Srettha Thavisin, Sansiri’s president and Standard Hotels’ chairman. “When this thing is over . . . my guess is people will feel safe to come here again, maybe in the third quarter, when flights return to normal.” Thailand earned a name and a global niche for itself with exotic, tactile experiences, from beach raves to Chinatown street meals, Thai boxing matches, jungle treks and traditional massages. As the industry prepares to reopen, the question is whether the masks, temperature checks and abundant hand sanitiser won’t be the ultimate mood killer. Thailand hosted a record 39m visitors last year, but the Tourism Authority of Thailand expects just 16m to come in 2020, and many in the industry think it will be lucky to get 10m. Hoteliers and restaurateurs insist that returning guests can still expect the familiar pleasures, albeit with some new additions. Contactless technology — cards, touch-free buttons, even facial recognition — will increasingly be used at check-in, to operate lifts and open doors or rubbish bins. Hotels’ public spaces will be reconfigured or redesigned to let more ventilation and sunlight in. Breakfast buffets will mostly be replaced by table service; servers will have their smiles hidden behind masks, and will be wearing gloves when they serve you your som tam (spicy papaya salad). For long-haul visitors, extended stays in one place will be more common than multi-destination jaunts around Thailand and south-east Asia. Private villas promising socially distanced seclusion will command a bigger premium than before over high-rise hotel rooms. And hospital-quality levels of hygiene and cleanliness, and minimised but bespoke human contact, will become not just a feature but an integral part of the product, especially at the high end. “The same level of personalisation will be there, but we will minimise the number of staff guests meet,” says Thomas Harlander, managing director of the luxury group Rosewood’s Bangkok hotel. Like Anantara, the hotel is promising a “seamless” experience for guests from their arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport. Vehicles carrying guests will be disinfected, and a note put in the car saying it was professionally cleaned. “It’s going to be even more seamless, and fewer people, fewer touchpoints, less intrusive,” Harlander says. Anantara is planning to offer gym services, but on an individual basis, with equipment carefully sanitised and private training sessions booked in advance. Room service will continue, but servers will roll the trolleys up to guests’ rooms without entering themselves. “You don’t want a stranger in your room,” says Thomas Meier, the group’s senior vice-president for Asia. “We will help you push it in, and then you will set it up yourself.” Now, after two months of lockdown, Thai beaches are their cleanest in years and are being visited by otherwise seldom seen wildlife such as hornbills, pink dolphins and dugongs. In a recent call with journalists, Bill Heinecke, Minor’s chief executive, marvelled at the corals now visible off Thai beaches and water clarity “like I’ve never seen before”. “I think we’re going through a reset,” he said. Thai authorities are now also speaking of easing international travel, starting with Asian countries such as China and South Korea that have brought their coronavirus caseloads under control. Hotel groups expect that the Chinese in particular, newly freed from lockdown, will be keen to come back. “If they are looking to travel again, one of their first destinations will be Thailand,” says Suphajee Suthumpun, chief executive of Dusit International. Dusit has nine hotels in China and, as such, a preview of the group psychology of tourists recently freed from home quarantines. “When they lifted lockdown situations, people got excited and began to travel,” Suthumpun says. “Then they realised they shouldn’t do it so much, and became more rational.” For its 12 Thai hotels, Dusit is preparing a “comeback campaign”. Alongside the shampoo and soap offered in guest rooms, there will be a “personal protection pack” that includes hand sanitiser, a mask and gloves. At its Hua Hin and other properties, the chain will be offering guests the option of getting local food, handicrafts or other “must-try” items in their rooms via concierge service. Gyms will be moved outdoors. Sansiri is doing “minor to major renovations” of its two Thai hotels, opening them up to sunlight and the gardens more, and enlarging communal areas. Similar design features are being incorporated into Standard’s planned properties in Hua Hin, Ko Samui, Pattaya and Phuket. “The feeling of being too close together won’t be desirable,” says Thavisin. On entering hotels, guests may be given something to disinfect the soles of their feet, or an ultraviolet light that “cleanses you”, he says. Hoteliers are resisting the urge to discount at a time when they face lower occupancy and higher health-and-safety related costs, but are adding some extra inducements to come. In Ayutthaya, the Unesco World Heritage site a 90-minute drive outside Bangkok, the boutique Iudia hotel is maintaining room rates but offering free dinners, in part because many restaurants remain closed. The ruined city’s monumental plazas, stupas and temples — ordinarily swamped by day-trippers from Bangkok — are now being enjoyed by a handful of Thai tourists, and that is unlikely to change until airlines restore more long-haul flights.

I think about 1 month after all restrictions are lifted things will resemble what we remember as normal. It will be some casualties but this happens all the time , virus or not . Some guys will disappear and some new talent will show up, just like always. Key word is 'all restrictions are lifted" as very few of us will be that horny as to risk quarantines on arrival in Thailand and again when returning home. Everybody will be making their calculations , bar owners , landlords and guys but if demand will appear, offer will spring in it's wake overnight.

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With regards to Bangkok, perhaps a chance to consolidate the gay gogo/bar scene in Patpong 2, as per previously on Soi Twilight. I see from 'stickman weekly' site he reports that 2-3 lady gogo bars on Patpong 2 are not going to reopen after lockdown no matter what happens, so maybe a chance to fully establish Patpong 2 as the 'gay soi', even he is suggesting that possibility. Given that Thailand hopes for Asian country customers to return first, as was the case pre-lockdown, where well-off Asians...….Chinese, Sth Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong etc were the main customer base that gives a real hope that they, along with any Bkk expats can offer hope, certainly initially until we see just what the full Covid damage will be in terms of International travel from Western countries as well as the Asian one's. Although it seems the fall-out will be much worse than 2008 Financial crisis, that crisis showed there were still enough gay travellers with deep pockets who still had the will and means to travel to Thailand and visit the gogo bars and entertainment areas.

I have never seen the domain name hooboy.com. It does not work for either.

And of course...

I'm not sure that "revived" is the appropriate word. Patrong was dead on my first visit in 1998, alarmingly so to a first timer. I've visited five or six subsequently times-admittedly never in the highest of the high season- and have only seen it busy on Youtube. It is also expensive and I suspect that the workers may find their living expenses higher than in Pattaya and this would be a major concern for them.. I enjoy it as a tourist destination but the gay scene I find depressing. Perhaps the apps are more successful....I don't know Another issue is that Pattaya has a fair number of gay expats who play their part in the bar-scene....has Phuket? I really don't know.

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Oh please. Au revoir until he returns with another name. Talking about being frozen on your own shit. I suggest Larscrap.

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The bars lasted through the early years of the much scarier HIV pandemic. In fact they increased in number. They lasted through three years of the Asian Economic Crisis. They lasted through the 2008 global financial recession. The main difference in recent years has been the replacement of Thai boys with others from neighbouring countries. My view is that in future it will become more difficult for Lao, Cambodian and Vietnamese to return for quite some time after the bars reopen. But like the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s many Thai boys may now be desperate for decent paying work. Maybe they will return to the bars. There are two huge differences between 2020 and the three instances I refer to above. 1. international air travel. IATA has stated it will be 2024 before flights return to their 2019 level. 2. Disposable incomes of millions of possible gay travellers have taken a big hit. If flight prices rise to a point where gay tourists decide they just cannot afford to fly to Thailand, what happens to the demand for the bars over the next year or two? Bars can probably survive a shutdown for a few months. Can they survive a major drop off in customers lasting years?

You seemed quite comfortable when we last visited!

One of the popular places to stay in Palm Springs for The Weekend is The Hacienda Inn Warm Springs. The news reports tonight that they had to shut down on March 13th due to coronavirus rules. Yet they still pay all employees full pay for the duration. That's commendable!

I would love you joining you again, @Lucky, this time I would feel more comfortable as you feel like an old friend now. My problem is that I am a very poor slut. With the money I spend to travel to PS for a week end, I spend a full week in Rio, with endless sex.

The world's oldest profession will survive and thrive. If you build it, they will cum. There will be a slow opening and many won't go but as things get safe, more will. I have seen the apps busier than ever and people wanting to me and MB's wanting (needing) income at any cost. Bars are not the only way to get it done, but in Thailand, they are usually a sure thing.

I had no idea what that tradition was until you wrote about it in detail the first time. And I was ambivalent about the mix of Escorts and non-escorts. So it really just my suggestion that it last A Week and include the music festival as well. Sorry that it was confusing. Glad you called me on it.

So what am I, chopped liver?

There are two of us- one stuck in his farm in Kamphaeng Phaet district, and one marooned in South London- who are desperate that vinapu's prediction is accurate. It's the longest we've been apart in nearly eighteen years. October is our target month. At the moment.

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