Thai Massage Girl and Pandemic Support

My name is Brian, and at this time I’m 52 from the USA. In January 2020, I visited Thailand to meet someone and hopefully start a relationship. Details of that first person aren’t really important because we didn’t hit it off from the jump. Soon I was alone and searching for someone to at least have a good time with.

I got on the usual apps that Thailand has. In this case, it was Thai Friendly. I found a girl named Ann. She was 31 years old and a masseuse at a shop that, when I checked the location, was just a short Grab away. I think she didn’t believe I was ever going to show up. She was on Thai Friendly looking for clients, but we had a nice conversation and seemed to connect quite well.

So I went to her massage shop the next day in the afternoon. This shop wasn’t open past midnight and wasn’t in the entertainment areas of Bangkok. I thought the employees use any way to get business that they can get on an app, find some clients, make some money.

When I arrived, I was met with the entire shop staff who knew I was coming. Ann had a big smile on her face and was happy that I showed up. I asked for a nice long massage and really wanted to get relaxed and change the vibe of my trip, which was already almost over.

She was petite but quite well developed even slightly muscular. She was incredibly strong and got me well relaxed. At the end she asked if I wanted the extra service, and I was so attracted to her that I couldn’t refuse. During the service, she whispered in my ear that if I wanted to, I could touch her. A soft touch goes a long way with a sensitive man.

At the end, I paid for my services and gave her a good tip. She tried to refuse it, but I said, “I don’t mind.” She just leaned forward into me, put her head on the front of my shoulder, and said, “Thank you.”

The Pandemic and Supporting Her

I left Thailand the next day to go home as I was scheduled to do. But of course, we all know what happened after that. The pandemic came along. Thailand was devastated closed businesses and massage shops. She had an 11 year old son and she was working in Bangkok to provide for him as he was staying back with her family in the countryside.

I felt such compassion for her as I watched her work evaporate and income become a serious struggle. She had a very clean but cheap apartment in a part of the city where no tourists go. So I started supporting her, and we communicated online every day. Little bits not a lot, really $150 or $200 a month. She could really stretch that money out. I did that for 2 years until Thailand opened up again.

The Relationship with Ann

We began to now see each other again and really date. This time I got everything kisses, hugs, aerobics, and a real girlfriend. She seemed the very loyal sort and never seemed to consider other men despite where she worked. I always told her I don’t mind that she gives the extra service as long as it’s only the usual and no aerobics. She was so straightforward that I believed her.

We took trips together after that to Dubai and Vietnam. But something soured our relationship towards the end, and we had arguments about little things. Eventually we ended, but I’ll always remember her. And when we did break up, she said she’d never forget me for what I did for her during those hard years. I still chat with her and check up on her these days as a friend, and I’m happy that she’s doing well.

Story 2 Short Time Girl Wanted More

In May 2023, COVID was a distant memory now for most of Thailand, and it was time to strike out on an adventure to see if I could live in Thailand. I was 55 at the time and thinking about living and retiring overseas because I could do it much sooner if I lived in a less expensive country.

So I booked a trip for a whole month and rented an Airbnb on Jomtien Beach for the entire time to see if I could settle into a life that I’d be comfortable with there in Thailand. There are so many things to consider when making a big move like this, including hobbies and friends.

The Final Night

When the trip was done, I was pleasantly surprised that only a couple of things bothered me. Shopping for real groceries was far, and it was sweltering in May. Even the beach that I was living right in front of was nothing but sand and no people at 200 p.m. on those days. I sort of learned to live like the Thais busy morning and evening and take a siesta in the afternoon.

I had planned a stay on the final night before going home near the airport. But I wasn’t happy with spending the last night alone. So I got on the Thai dating sites and saw this incredibly beautiful woman named Nui with a fit body. I thought, “This is dumb. She’ll never talk to me or be seriously interested.” But I took my shot with absolutely nothing to lose.

As we talked more, I realized that her English was very good, and the conversation flowed. So I asked her about meeting and suddenly received back her menu of prices. I always knew a lot of women on these sites were working girls, but at this point, for a little money, I wasn’t really wanting to be alone. She was 38 years old, which I could hardly believe. No kids.

The Date

After meeting, we went straight to the hotel bar to have a beer and eat some food. She was so happy and warm, speaking great English. We went back to the room and had some of the best aerobics of my life. But I started to think she’s 38. How much longer does she want to do this kind of work?

So I started to ask her questions about it, and I started to try to make her think with different ideas. I mentioned retiring and being with me and what she might like. I was leaving the next day, and so nothing bad could really come of this. By the end, she did say she doesn’t like doing it and that she feels it’s a job just like anyone else. I just couldn’t wrap my head around this. If there’s aerobics, there must certainly be pleasure and feelings, I thought. But she said, No, it’s work.

The Offer

We exchanged LINE and kept talking after I left Thailand. A few months later, I had another opportunity to go back. I told her I would pay her usual rates, but I wanted all of her time, and she gladly accepted. When I returned, we had the best time going out, staying in, aerobics, and deep conversations too.

She said the only time she stopped working was for a boyfriend in the past. The boyfriend requested it, and in return he supported her. And this is the part you always hear about they say they quit but they don’t. But this woman said when she was supported, it was a relief not to have to work. You could feel the relief in her voice.

Call me a sucker, but I believed her, and she extended the offer to me. Be my boyfriend. Support me, and I’ll stop. So I called her bluff and started telling her I wanted to move to Thailand and get a place together and always be together. And she said, “Yes, okay, let’s do that.”

She had put the ball in my court, so now I had to try and put it back in hers. I asked her if I did that, would she be willing to marry me? She said yes with a big smile. And then I asked her about kids because she’s 38. It’s like a last chance. And she got a big frown on her face and said no. I didn’t totally understand that one, but I guess when you do one thing for nearly 20 years, maybe some other things just get lost in the shuffle.

At that point, the ball had been put back in my court again. And even though she always used protection, even with me, I had to eventually let it fade away. I just couldn’t make myself get too close to a short time girl. And yet, there’s a chance it could have been good for both of us too, as she indicated. I still think about her today, although I decline to keep the communication going.

Story 3 Honest Massage Girl Returned a Wallet

These travel stories have saved a lot of men from hardship and trouble while traveling or in retirement.

I live in a major city on the US East Coast. The time difference between Thailand and where I live is typically 12 hours, and the travel time with layovers is at least 28 hours. So whenever I arrive in Thailand, I am exhausted. I usually spend the first day in Thailand getting massages and sleeping.

The Massage Shop Near Asok

On the first day of one of my trips to Thailand, I stopped in a massage shop near Asok to get a massage. I wanted a conventional massage and no extra service as I was fairly tired, having just eaten lunch. I planned on going back to my hotel to take a nap after the massage.

I walked into a massage shop and knew right away that the shop was one where the massage girls expected to get paid for an extra service. It was obvious because the girls were young and pretty compared to conventional shops that often have middle aged Thai women who give the best massages in Thailand.

It was low season, and the girls started chatting with me, the only customer, right away practicing their English. Where you from? Where you stay? How long in Thailand? How many times in Thailand? Even though I was tired and wanted a real massage, who can say no to pretty young girls? So I went upstairs with one of them. Let’s call her Nan.

The Four Hands Massage Proposal

Nan put me in a nice clean room. I got ready and laid down on the massage table, and she came in. Moments later, the door opened, and I heard Nan speaking in Thai with another massage girl. Then I felt another set of hands on me, and I looked back to see one of the other massage girls at the other side of the table massaging my legs and back as Nan rubbed my back.

Nan said to me, “You have two girls massage four hands massage today,” with a cheeky smile and a funny voice indicating it was a question. I declined a four hand massage, saying to Nan in broken English, I’m too tired today and just arrived from America maybe later in the week.

Within a few minutes, Nan was massaging my back, and I fell soundly asleep. I woke up to her giggling in my ear. “Mister, mister, turn over, please.” I turned over, and Nan began massaging the front of my legs. In a few minutes, I was soundly asleep again.

The Negotiation

This time when I woke up, the curtain was halfway open, and another of the massage girls was looking at me and laughing while Nan woke me up gently. She said, “Mister, you asleep and he asleep too,” pointing down to my lower body, which was uncovered for Nan and her colleague to see.

Nan gestured downstairs and said, “Special massage.” When I’m asked for a special massage in Thailand, I usually tell the women that I’m tired and I want to have a girl that night both of which are often true. After all, I do not journey to Thailand to have extra services. I prefer to have a pretty girl for the evening and aerobics.

What happened in this case was that after a few minutes, Nan’s special massage price dropped from 1,500 baht to 900 baht all by me saying, “I’m too tired. Girl tonight, girl tonight.” I probably could have gotten the price lowered more, but it was low season, so I took pity on her, and I relented.

The Wallet

After all was said and done, and it was time for me to leave the massage place, I paid Nan. I then proceeded to get dressed. A minute later, I was walking away from Asok towards my hotel on Sukhumvit Road. As I was walking, I heard a voice yelling on the road, Mister, mister. There are so many touts on Sukhumvit that I did not turn back right away. I figured it was another woman asking to give me another massage.

As the voice got closer to me, I turned back, and it was Nan. She caught her breath and said to me, “Mister, you left after massage,” pointing to my wallet in her hand which was overflowing with cash.

Before the massage, I withdrew 10,000 baht from an ATM. I was so tired that I left my wallet in the massage room after getting dressed in the dark. Nan had a terrific smile on her face and seemed so happy to catch me because I am tall. She said it was easy to find me on Sukhumvit Road.

I thanked her, took the wallet from her, reached into it, and gave her another 1,000 baht as a tip. She smiled again, placed her hands together, said “Thank you” in Thai, and walked away. I checked the remaining cash, curious to see if Nan took any. She had not. It was all there.

Story 4 Pattaya Night with Som

I was 29 years old on my second trip to Thailand this time with a friend who wanted to check out Bangkok. We also wanted to make our first visit to Pattaya. After a few days in Bangkok, we hopped on a bus near Victory Monument and arrived at the bus station in North Pattaya. We took a cab to our hotel in the north part of Pattaya.

We were both hungry, so we stopped in a nondescript restaurant to have lunch. Our server was a cute, young, and very thin Thai girl named Som. Even though it was high season in November, there were not that many people in the restaurant, so Som talked to us after serving our meals.

Her English was pretty good. She said she’d learned it at a Thai university. We had a very good conversation, and instead of the quick lunch we planned, we ended up talking to her for about an hour. I asked Som, “Do you want to come out with us? My treat.” She smiled and replied yes, but she wanted to bring a friend with her. We agreed to meet her at 900 p.m. after she got off her shift.

The Night Out in Pattaya

At about 900 p.m., we returned to the restaurant, and Som was there waiting. Som was cute, but not beautiful like some of the girls I would later see on Soi 6. Her friend, however, was beautiful. She wore a black dress, had a beautiful face and body, and long, lovely black hair.

We proceeded to walk down Beach Road, and she showed us Soi 6 and Walking Street. When we stopped at a bar near Walking Street, I bought dinner and drinks for all of us. This bar had live music, so we stayed for an hour or more and listened to the Thai band play American rock music.

Then Som and her friend said they wanted to go to a club, and they directed us to one of the clubs on Walking Street. I think it was Insomnia, but I cannot remember exactly. We got into the club and got a table near the dance floor.

I asked Som if she wanted to dance with me. Som was about 5′ tall, and I am 6’6“, so we looked funny dancing together so much so that other couples looked at us and giggled. An Australian girl yelled something into my ear, and I knew she was saying, “You are so tall, and she is short.” Som seemed to take it in her stride and not be bothered by the comments. She seemed quite happy to enjoy herself dancing.

The Russian Girl

Within a few minutes, a beautiful woman walked right up to our table and stood on my left side, while Som was seated to my right side. She asked if she could take one of our empty chairs but she actually sat down at our table. She spoke English well. When I asked her where she was from, she told me she was from Russia. Her skin was very white, and she had a beautiful face and almost perfect body with long dark hair. She was even better looking than Som’s friend.

At the time, I did not know that there were Russian girls working in Thailand. So it took a few minutes to figure out that she was a working girl. I was surprised when I realized it, and I thought, how can a Russian woman compete with the many thousands of beautiful women from all over Southeast Asia working in Pattaya?

The hostess came up and asked me if I wanted to buy the Russian girl a drink, and I agreed. The Russian woman asked me what Americans thought of Russian women, and I said, “They’re like any other women” leaving out that I think Russian women are a bit high maintenance.

Because of my experiences with former Soviet states, I knew what this Russian woman was probably thinking. Why would this American guy want an average looking Thai girl when he could have a European beauty like me?

Out of curiosity, I asked her how much it would cost to spend time with her. She said, “You need to buy me two more drinks here first, and it is 3,000 baht for me to stay with you for a little while, and 6,000 baht for me to stay with you until the morning.”

Som’s Reaction

As the Russian woman was speaking, I realized I was being rude to Som which readers of this story are probably already thinking. In my defense, I should say that I was not thinking of leaving with Som. We were all just having a good time.

Nevertheless, I leaned over and said to Som, who could not hear my conversation with the Russian, that the woman was from Russia and was just talking to me and asking me where I was from. Som obviously knew what was going on, and she smiled and said, “It’s okay. You can go with her if you want to.

As I was talking to Som, I noticed my friend and his companion staring at the Russian girl in disbelief that she was trying to sell herself to me while I was sitting with Som. Som’s Thai friend glared at the Russian woman angrily.

The Russian woman saw Som, smiled sheepishly, and when I turned back to her before I could say anything, she said to me, I do not share. Hearing her say that almost made me chuckle, as I was thinking, “This girl has no clue what I’m thinking.” I was not even thinking about anything like that.

Very politely, I said to the Russian that I was sorry, but I would not go with her that night and that I was there with my friends. The Russian said quickly, “She is not your friend,” nodding to Som. I told her that Som was showing us around that night and that maybe I would come back tomorrow night. The Russian girl looked at me and said, You will not be back. And she was right.

She quickly finished her cocktail, got up from the bar, and left the finished glass at the table. She did not seem angry, but she acted as though it was a rejection her sales pitch which didn’t work. Som saw me turn down the Russian and made Som happy, and she cuddled and caressed my arm.

The Aftermath in Pattaya

A couple of hours later, the four of us walked back to the hotel. Som and I went to our room, had a shower together, and then had aerobics and talked and cuddled until the sun started to rise.

In the morning, we had breakfast in the hotel. My friend came down and was visibly annoyed. I found out that he was annoyed because Som’s friend wanted 2,000 baht for staying the night. After we ate breakfast, we went to an ATM, and he withdrew some money and gave it to her. It was quite awkward because Som did not ask me for anything. Maybe she was happy that I paid for the evening out for all four of us or that I did not go off with the Russian girl.

For years after that meeting in Pattaya in 2009, Som emailed me. It was okay to speak to her for a while by email, but new and serious girlfriends came into my life in America, and I lost track of Som eventually. One year I tried Som’s email, and it bounced back indicating it was no longer in use. I have been to Pattaya several times since then, but I never saw her again.