Editor's Note: Over the next little while I am going to share some stories told to me by a girl I met in 2017 at a bar in Koh Pha-ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand just north of Koh Samui. Koh Pha-ngan is famous for its Full Moon Party with attracts upwards of 20,000 party-goers, sometimes more, every month. I met her in a bar on the outskirts of Thongsala, persuaded her to leave the bar and travel Thailand with me from Surat Thani to Hua Hin and on to Chiang Mai. In that time, I got her to share some of her stories.
The week after I met her, she got a text from a Thai friend who was working at a massage parlor somewhere in Korea. Her friend wanted her to join her. She said the money was very good; much better than in Thailand. I was skeptical, so I told her to ask her friend what was involved. The friend said there was no sex, just massage. I had strong doubts. According to the Korean government, some 50,000 Thai women are believed to be working in massage parlors, many of them fronts for prostitution. The story of a Korean man arrested in Bangkok in 2017 illustrates the pattern. promised women jobs as masseuses in South Korea, but upon their arrival they were instead forced into sex work by pimps who seized their passports and blocked any attempts at escape. I discovered that for many Korean men, a trip to the massage shop is a part of life. According to some studies, more than half of Korean men visit these establishments at least once per month. I shared with her a study that found that 45 percent of men in their 30s and 47 percent in their 40s did not consider sex-for-money deals as adultery, and that Korean couples have the second-least sex in the world, the survey found. Simply put, Korean men, married and unmarried, go to prostitutes, and especially 'massage shops', to get the sex that they're not getting in everyday life. There is a culture of men paying a prostitute in order to lose their virginity. I also discovered that in Korea, the predominant male view is that it is the woman's responsibility to take care of protection, and that most Korean men prefer to have sex without a condom. I cautioned my friend of all this, but she was insistent, and I wanted to be supportive, so I helped her buy a ticket to Seoul. This is the story of her first week there...
I arrived at Incheon International at around 3 in the afternoon. I had never before travelled outside of Thailand, and I spoke no Korean. In fact, I had never been on a plane before. The journey from Phetchabun to Suvarnabhum International in Bangkok was itself a long journey of 7 hours by minibus, followed by another 6 hours in the air. I was met in the airport by a Korean man who spoke some Thai. He instructed me to follow him. We drove for about an hour, passing through some built-up areas and some countryside. I had no idea where I was. The man said little, other than that he was taking me to be interviewed by the owner of a massage shop, who would decide whether he wanted me to work for him or not. I was told to cooperate, to obey, or things could go badly. I asked if my friend who persuaded me to come to Korea, would be there. He said no.
When we arrived at the shop, located down a small alley way, the driver escorted me inside. There were a few other girls there, seated on rundown sofas, all dressed scantily. Some appeared to be Thai, others were Vietnamese I think. The driver said a few words to the owner in Korean, and then left. By then it was around 6 pm. The owner, who spoke a little Thai, offered me some tea. It tasted strange, but he insisted that I drink it. I later learned that it was laced with ketamine. The effect was immediate; a feeling of overwhelming relaxation, almost like I was floating. The owner then told me to follow him. He was about 50 years old and overweight, but reasonably handsome. He took me to one of the private massage rooms. Once inside, he closed the door and started undressing me. I felt powerless to stop him.
When I was naked, he inspected me. He gave no sign of approval or disapproval. To him, this was business, not pleasure. He handed me a tube of KY jelly and signaled that I should lubricate myself. I hadn't expected this, but I didn't know what else to do, so I obeyed. He then fished out his phone and started taking pictures. He said this was for the shop's website. He had me strike various poses, on my back or on my knees, mostly with my legs open, Sometimes he would take a picture with a finger inserted into me. Sometimes he would get me to insert a finger into myself. My pussy was glistening thanks to effects of the KY jelly and my own growing arousal. I felt powerless to resist.