Visited Pattaya in early July. I agree the best bars are Funny Boys and Toy Boys. I don't like the changes at Copa which is now a bar open to the street. But its good to see the boys back performing in the water tank there.

The quality of boys on offer has declined a lot but still much better than Bangkok. I prefer the bars to select a companion rather than the internet. I was ripped off twice via Hornet/Grindr/JackD/Gay Romeo. One person was not the person advertised, and another tricked me into lending him 3000 baht, but at least he was a great fuck!

I get the impression that everyone is more than usually desperate to make a buck. The boys are demanding more, and the mamasans are lying, even to regulars.

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Mamasans, never, over 35 plus years my favorites.

A few weeks ago a friend went to a bar in soi twilight, asked to speak to one of the boys and mamasan refused 'he's not Thai'. Young man , with 3 or 4 other boys, was sitting down full clothed, none of them dancing at all. Farang asked if it's possible to see these boys dancing, mamasan replied 'no, not thai so not handsome and black skin' (farang says none of this group had skin tone more than light tan). Farang now walked over to where the boys were sitting and took the boys hand leading him back to his sitting position. Farang discovered the boy was quite pleasant and speaks perfect English, he's from Vietnam. The farang involved works permanently in Ho Chi Minh City, he and the young man now back in Ho Chi Minh city and the young man ready to restart university. I met the farang friend and his new companion twice before they left for HCMC, very pleasant young man, can talk about any subject, very polite, he had to stop his studies in bio-technology because of family finance problems.
I will visit them in HCMC in November when I'm working there.

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The bar closures continue. In Boystown Wild West is no more. (Once the hottest cabaret show and always packed out, its now a noodle bar!)

Over in Sunnee, Sunny Boys has shut it doors.

What is surprising is that this has happened in the high season when visitor numbers peak - but they're now Chinese, Indian and Russian visitors and not gay farangs. The days of the 'go go boy bar' are indeed numbered.

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Since none of them ever did anything even closely resembling dancing, much less "go go" dancing, maybe it's not such a big loss.

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They were both fun! .... and better than staring at a computer screen all night looking for a date.

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Jomthien Complex was full of people out drinking and talking and laughing and having a good time last time I was there. Better than looking at boys playing with their phones in their sagging underwear.

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Not sure which bars you frequent, but there are no saggy undies here. Dreamboys just re-outfitted all their boys in skin tight black leatherette briefs with 180 degree zips. Sexy maak maak

Yes Jomtien Complex is full, but when the street clothes come off you don't always get what you expect.

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