Today I went to the spa and was in heaven for the bulk of the day. It was wonderful.
Sophie even ended up staying a day longer than she'd originally planned. And through the course of conversations, turns out we have a lot more in common than you'd expect.
Unfortunately, I'm still in Bangkok for another day. And I don't want to be. I'm ready to move onto India.
I'm not sure how much of it is just I loved Cambodia so much and would rather be there than here, or if I'm just a little SE Asia'd out or if it's just that I really don't care for Bangkok as much as I'm feeling. I think it's the last one... I really don't like this city. I didn't want to come here to begin with, but the flight arrangements were such that I fly out of here. So rather than base my opinion on hearsay and speculation, I wanted to form an opinion legitimately.
Part of the reason I didn't want to come to Bangkok is all I would ever really hear about it is how it's a party location and child prostitution.
Well, it's a party location and there's young girls on the street selling their bodies and women being exploited in other ways. Sophie was telling me that one of the things Bangkok is famous for is the ping pong show... I naively asked what that was and she thought I was kidding. I'll try to keep this as g-rated as possible.... this show that is one of the things Bangkok is known for is when a woman hides and expels a ping pong ball out of her lady bits. Other items that can be used are razor blades and birds.
I'll be honest, there may have been a day in my past where I'd want to witness this just out of sheer and twisted curiosity. However, if there ever was a time like that, it was many years ago. After some of the things I've been through, that last thing I want to see or hear about is women and their bodies being exploited. One of the hardest parts to grapple regarding this is it's westerners who fuel these things and essentially condone and support these exploitations. It's old white geezers that you see with the young girls. It's western tourists going to the "shows" and the shows consist of much more than what was mentioned earlier.
It saddens me.
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