faranglaw

Did it already in Canada, which was and still is a good fifteen years ahead of the US. My Thai partner and I moved to Canada in 2000, me from the US, he from Thailand. We were admitted as a couple and got our citizenship three years later. We also got legally married. On th tenth anniversary if our legal marriage, in 2013, we celebrated by putting on a true wedding/recommitment ceremony for 45 friends, complete with ballet dancers and a very hot Scottish accordion player in kilts that even the straight men wanted to go home with. Our MCs were our two dearest friends (a straight couple) here in Vanciuver, and the bar man wore the hottest leather pants. Happiness in marriage to a Thai man is possible, but you need luck and some hard work bridging cultural and age differences. It seems that, even now, every day I learn something new about how he thinks about the world. We met when I was 43 and he was 21. Now I'm 66 and he is 44, reading on the couch across from me in our condo living room. Marital bliss is not for everyone, but has worked for me. I'm very lucky. But some of you single guys seem lucky too, and I'm enjoying reading about your exploits and getting a vicarious thrill here and there.

Also, the real quote, as I understand it, is not "Money is the root of all evil." It's "The love of money is the root of all evil." In other words, the issue is what is inside us, not what is outside.

My Thai husband did the same short term monk initiation in 1998. He tells me the total cost was 20,000 baht at the most. When I told him about the 300,000 baht, he laughed and said, "Are they inviting the whole village?" So no, inflation would not explain this. It seems to me that if you really think this relationship has long term potential, you need to have a talk with your boyfriend about honesty in a relationship, because he is clearly not telling you a true story, or the whole story. If it does not have long term potential, time to toss this fish back into the river,

Although it's not certain, some people think Shakespeare was also born on April 23rd. I know, because it's my own birthday, along with Shirley Temple, Roy Orbison, and the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Oh, and James Buchanan, the only "bachelor"(nudge, nudge...) US President, thought by many historians to have been the worst of the lot. And that's quite an accomplishment.

Isn't this getting a tad expensive? Four or more in one night?

Exactly my style. Please share. I hope he's still there in December...

Why inappropriate? Because of HIV? Or some other reason? If you ask first? I'm actually not experienced in commercial sex much, and it's a genuine question. Certainly I expect a bj at Babylon. If I don't get one, I usually lose interest. (And as an equal opportunity slut I believe in giving as well as receiving!) But I don't know about money boy etiquette. Maybe it's time I learned, at the tender age of almost 66, eh?

Agree. Very low risk. Even lower if they don't come in your mouth. Oral sex with a condom is, IMHO, like a decaf latte with skim milk. Why bother? It's probably riskier to take a tuk tuk to the massage parlor.

Agree. That would be OK. But the original post was thoughtless. We don't know their lives, as much as we may think we do. For example, Vipanu mentioned back to school, which is actually quite possible, if not terribly probable. Maybe the young man was making money temporarily on his way to something better in his life, and that something better could be jeopardized by exposure on line. He may well have some very good reasons not to want his line of work posted here, reasons we are not privy to. It's simple respect to err on the side of confidentiality. Also IMNSHO.

My Thai husband always changes money at Super-rich, the Green one not the Orange one (there are two, for some odd Thai logic reason.) They seem to do a huge volume. The rates are the best I've seen anywhere. I don't know Natty Gems though; maybe it's just as good.