PeterRS

I can attest that the search function works exremely well as i have discovered on quite a number of occasions. And you should recall that you made the allegation - not me! Proof is up to you, not me - but you have copped out.

Why do I think this story, with certain alterations, reminds me of masses of missives received and posted from Thai boys to the foreigners they met once, perhaps twice, and who told the boys they loved them? I do not know the situation in the USA but in the UK 90% of actors are out of work at any one time. It is a very precarious profession - uness I suppose he is a porn star. Is he? Why ask questions here when you already know what you plan to do? Otherwise you would not have made the post!

And can you kindly inform us which other member/s have made that comment - particularly the use of the words "dominance boost"? I do not recall seeing that before.

I have met @ChristianPFC occasionally here in Bangkok and twice in Taipei where he had gone to learn Chinese. He is considerably younger than most posting here. Speaking near fluent Thai and being well accustomed to Thailand - has anyone travelled around this country as much as he, I wonder? - he can clearly attract guys for sex more cheaply than most. While I totally disagree with his comment about third world countries and the price of a sexual encounter being similar to a daily wage, if guys are prepared to spend time with him for less than for most posters here, as long as he respects them as individuals - and I am certain he does - he is as entitled to tip as he wishes and his boy du jour accepts. That is an unfair comment.

I have never been barred from entry to any sauna in Japan - and my Japanese is dreadful. But banning foreigners was particularly true during the years when HIV and AIDS were sadly too prevalent. As usual the Japanese owners did not consider this a Japanese problem until they realised that foreigners were stilll visiting their establishments. Too late they banned foreigners. But they only banned those they assumed were foreigners. Chinese friends of mine from Hong Kong always gained entry as they looked rather like Japanese! As @macaroni21 has pointed out, they are - much more so than most other countries. But you cannot expect a massage spa to conform to these rules. Most of the boys, as has been stated above, are basically freelancers and they are not in possession of fixed schedules like a normal salaryman. Often they can only offer free time about a week ahead.

I agree tipping may have - stress "may" - little to do with your financial wealth. But it is for some people. But to compare it with going to a hairdresser is frankly nonsense. Similarly you cannot compare a tip for prostitution the equivalent of a daily wage. Most people on a daily wage get precisely that - the same amount each day guaranteed for at least a decent peiod of time. Someone seeking sex may go for days without any customer - and we know from what has been written here in the past that there are boys who get no customers for a week or more. We all know that you tip at the lower end of the scale. That's perfectly fine if the boy you are with is happy with it. But you live here, you speak Thai and you know all about negotiation. Most customers are very different.

I really do not follow that argument. Bangkok properties are generally not ghost properties with one exception I know about. When the Chinese were floooding Thalland, they were permitted by their government to take up to US$50,000 out of the country. Many wished to buy in Bangkok but apartments were generally above that figure, So property developers soon put up large apartment blocks with units of between around 25 and 30 sq. m. usually near the end of MRT and BTS lines. Initially these proved popular, even with couples from Singapore and Hong Kong where housing is so incredibly expensive. The Chinese from the mainland basically wanted to park their cash outside the country. The thinking of South East Asians was they could sell the apartments after ten years and make enough of a profit to finally get on the property ladder in their own cities. I suspect with Thailand now much less popular with Chinese, quite a number of these small units are empty - but that's merely a guess. I have no idea about the situation in Pattaya.

A member of the Finland Parliament, Paivi Rasanen, has several times over the last two decdes claimed that homosexuality is a "developmental disorder". Finally taken to court, the Supreme Court ruled that she was incorrect and fined her. Ms. Rasanen was aided in her defence, should we be surprised, by an American organisation - the US-based conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, which has tried to use her case as an example of censorship in Europe. The group has ramped up its global spending on litigation and other campaigns after successfully overturning Roe v Wade, which protected the right to abortion, in the US. Having made a shambles of much of the USA, these right wing groups should be banned from becoming involved in non-American issues. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/finnish-mp-paivi-rasanen-convicted-homosexuality-developmental-disorder

I encountred similar situation more than once. As @macaroni21 points out - in Japan go with the flow. Do not expect conditions to be the same as other countries. Japan is a great country and Tokyo an amazing city. Just do not expect it to operate exactly like cities elsewhere. And as @macaroni21 also pointed out, foreigners come low in the pecking order. Just don't get annoyed and don't lose your temper. Keep calm! If some organisation does not work, do not atempt to make it work. Go elsewhere. AAdditionally you quote a list of spas prepared by a member who had not been to any of them (I believe) as he state clearly he was based in the Kyoto/Osaka area and only had a brief stopover in Tokyo. So do not regard his post as a recommendation. Having made the list, it is up to you to check each one out.

Non Thai nationals are severely restricted as to the type of paid employment they can enjoy in the Kingdom. Most require a work visa or a special visa permitting work for a shorter period of time. My Burmese bf has a visa from his employer and has recently had it renewed for a further year. WIth the best will in the world, I cannot see massage work being acceptable as Thais can very easily do this. Unskilled labour working on construction sites is frequently mentioned. In that case I assume the employer obtains the necessary paperwork. ASEAN is supposed to facilitate mobility of labour, but this generally applies only to skilled labour.

My advice for Japan escort establishments is never try to make a booking more than about a few days ahead. Many of the boys work or study and simply do not know when they will definitely be free before then. I have never had a problem with the usual agencies (I had never actually heard of the three you mention until this thread) but then I am not into the hunk types that you obviously prefer. My suggestion? If olive-salon is screwing you round, go somewhere else! Never try to get a Japanese agency to fit in to what you want. You follow their rules.

Out of curiosity, do you ever eat anything else? LOL

My neighbours opposite in Bangkok recently purchased a second home and dolled up their existing one to rent. They had been informed by more than one estate agent that while the rental market in Thailand is buoyant just now, the selling market is flat. They rented their flat after just one day. I wrote some years ago of the two western guys who lived in a very large 210 sq.m. flat next door to mine (it was a double flat). Why they purchased it goodness only knows but it took them three years to sell and they had to lower the price from Bt. 13 million to Bt.9.5. All this time their pot of savings was being reduced. Eventually they moved into a large rented flat (another really stupid move) but come covid they had insufficient cash to pay for their visas. In their 80s they ended up being deported.

Long time ago I was on booked on a Hong Kong/Melbourne flight. It was cancelled almost at the last minute due to a petrol tanker drivers' strike in Australia. The flight could thus not be refuelled. No airline will fly into any airport unless certain it can be refuelled.

For some years I went to bars to Sundays with a long time friend. He seemed to love teasig the boys, most of whom hadn't a clue what he was saying and some were certainly uncomfortable. I tied so many times to get him to stop, but it must have been ingrained in his DNA.

Having looked at all the guys and their descriptions, I reckon that are all bascially top but some will bottom. If you click on each photo, you get a description that incudes whether they are bottom or top. For example, one guys has this - Interaction, top, bottom Top ◎ / Bottom ◎ which i take to mean he is both. Some have an x against bottom and again I assume that means he will not. Another is described s a gay guy and he has - Back-up Top (△) / Bottom (◎) One guy with a triange has in his description "He's basically a versatile top, but he says he can also be a bottom for guys with average-sized penises." I frankly would be wary of assuming this and other guys with similar triangles will be very effective bottoms. Note that some will not take reservations from foreigners. Only my personal view but 150 minutes with one guy whom you have never met nd may not be blessed to converse with seems a very long time. Why go for that length on a very first date? I would definitely not go beyond 90 minutes first time around, but that is just me.

I'll try and negotiate down to 10%. Is he worth more, do you think?

Where else but in the USA would anyone consider queuing for hundreds of meters underground before getting up to second level and another few hundred meters queue. Then another level. By the time this level is reached there is a notice saying approximate waiting time will be a further 250 minutes. Madness! https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/us/video/houston-airport-security-checkpoint-lines-vrtc-digvid

Darn it! I forgot to add him!

Youtube still has it fortunately - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyos-M48B8U but for some reason does not allow it to be embedded. A quick click and paste job shows a masterly summing up! The TV series is also excellent -

More a nightmare to have that lawyer!

I am sure we all have stories like that. Many years ago I drafted a will for my UK assets which I asked a lawyer to complete in legal terms. I was quite happy to pay his fee. When I then wanted very minor alterations to certain clauses, I rewrote them exactly as he would have written them and sent them to the lawyer. He then sent me an invoice as though he had rewritten the entire will himself. I told him I'd pay 25% and not a penny more. It was accepted.

@Keithambrose mentioned the Jeremy Thorpe case in these columns just a couple of weeks or so ago. Am I not correct in suggesting this was a case where the various organs of law enforcement including the police, the defence counsel and even the judge were so biased and accepting of a whole multitude of lies that a fair trial was impossible? And are we not to some extent now witnessing the result of the same lack of enthusiasm for having explored all the evidence that must have existed for decades against alleged crimes committed by the now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?

I have called it a BL movie but I am not sure if that is the right description, if only because the boys in the movie - both amateurs who act superbly - are 13 and just about to reach puberty. In 2022 CLOSE was nominated for a Golden Globe, an Oscar for Best Foreign Movie and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Following the showing, the Cannes audience gave the actors a 10-minute standing ovation. Since then it has won a slew of awards all over the world. It is a movie which had quite an effect on me to the point where I was almost in tears at its beauty, an effect which it has had on many who have watched it, including hard-bitten reviewers. Having decided this was a movie he wanted to make, the young Belgian director wondered how on earth he would cast it. One day on a Belgian train he found himself seated next to a group of school kids all chattering and laughing. One stood out for him, one of the most animated and with the most amazing eyes. He asked the boy if he would be interested in a casting session and then discussed it with his mother. This boy was then cast as the main protagonist in the film, Leo, whose eyes tell much of the story. I don't want to give too much away, but the first 15 minutes or so of the movie are about Leo and his best friend Remi, about how they play together one summer holiday, have fun together as all kids do and even sleep over in Remi's bed. It is extremely beautifully filmed. There is nothing sexual here. But when they both go to the same secondary school, their close friendship attracts attention, the sort that Leo finds difficult to accept. I will go no further as that will give the rest of the story away. I will just say again it is a beautifully filmed, amazingly powerful movie. The review which I post here does have the spoiler so be prepared to look away at this point if you do not want to know what happens. The movie was shown two weeks ago on True Visions but ridiculously in French without English sub-titles. I have heard from True that it will be shown again towards the end of April with sub-titles.

Although it is years since i lived in Tokyo, I have returned many times since then. So I'll try and answer your questions. I'm sure others will add some things. 1. Guests in hotel rooms. I have stayed in several dozen hotels in Tokyo and can tell you that only the really very expensive might query a guest - but unlikely. I have never once had any issue taking a young man to my room, and from what I have read from other posts here, other members have found the same. 2. Room size. This might steer you towards an airbnb. You are correct that Japan hotel prices are partly based on room size. So a decent sized room is going to be reasonably expensive. I have been in cheaper rooms where when kneeling on the bed I stretch out my arms and can touch the two walls! But whereas most of the boys from the agencies will know the hotels, they might need help from you via the mama-san in finding your exact location in an airbnb. If you are not considering overnight, I have looked at the Re:Born site and the boys look much more of the hunk type rather than the skinny cute guys in many other agencies. The in-premises rooms also look really nice. They are only ¥1,000 extra for non-Japanese nationals. One question, though. That site does not have what I consider a usual list of outcall availability and timings. Indeed there seems to be very little information about out-calls apart from a list of what it will cost you from the premises. Overnights seem only to be on the premises when another additional charge becomes payable - ¥2,000. So please double check that before making a booking. A chat with the mamasan is obviously needed in advance. 3. Most of the agencies have websites which use icons to tell you exactly what your preferred companion will and will not do. So check them carefully. If you are looking for a bottom, do not expect a top to fulfil your desires! Likewise some boys do not like to drink alcohol. So please use mouthwash and brush your teeth before he arrives. I always found the boys liked a little conversation before showering and some will speak at least some English. When you make the booking on line, you can ask the mamasan which boys do have some English. 4. In almost al cases, if you book for a start time of 8:00 pm, that is precisely the time he will knock on your door or call up for you if the lift requires a keycard. 5. I am a little surprised that 130 minutes is the minimum time. I have never seen that before. Unsually the timings are now around ¥15,000 for one hour with other options for 90 minutes or 120 minutes. I suggest it depends very much on you and your precise requirements of the boy you choose. Generally speaking, if you have paid for one hour, you will get precisely that. So for 130 minutes, don't expect the boy to up and leave after a shorter time. On the other hand, bear in mind that if you are finished well ahead of 130 minutes and the two of you cannot converse, the extra unused minutes may drag on. Personally I would not go beyond 90 minutes, especially for a first time. Good luck and have a great time.