After my vacation in Greece, I proceeded onward to my next assignment: Bangkok, Thailand. To summarize my sex life up till then, I was almost 39 years old and the number of men I had bedded was the same as my age. (I'm an accountant; I've addicted to numbers and I've got to get them right before I can tell the story.)
Bangkok was different from my life of the past four years working in American Embassies in Africa. In Africa my universe was small and confined; in Bangkok it was limitless and free. The Embassy was huge and nobody paid attention to my private life. The atmosphere was permissive. Thailand is the sex capital of the world with its attractive, friendly, and inexpensive women. Bangkok has thousands of bars, massage parlors, night clubs, strip joints, no-hands-restaurants, and other establishments where sex can be purchased at a moderate price with a smile.
The men in Bangkok, surrrounded by Thai cuties, didn't pay much attention to round-eyes like me. But I had sex with about a dozen men, nearly all Americans, during my first year in the country. Even in kinky Bangkok, my adventures were mostly conventional: one man, one woman, one bed.
My most vivid recollection of that year was a foray into group sex on Pattaya beach near Bangkok. The night life in Pattaya was as hot as the weather with sleazy bars filled with half-dressed Thai girls peddling their wares.
I went to Pattaya with two girl friends. We all lacked steady men in our lives. None of us were beauties, but we looked sexy that night. I wore a short loose dress with a scoop neck and spaghetti straps and I left my bra at home, thus displaying ample cleavage and an occasional errant nipple for the world to see. I love to see men looking down my dress. My two girl friends wore shorts and tank tops, the shape and color of their nipples showing through the fabric. I had every intention of getting laid -- and so did my friends.
We danced and drank until midnight in a bar with a tiny dance floor. Most of the Western men in the place were tourists and were more interested in the exotic Thai girls than us, but we collected a presentable pair named Steve and Jay and invited them to a stroll on the beach on the way back to our rented bungalow. All three women were calculating the same: three women, two men -- somebody is going to get left out. I figured it would be me because I'm big and clunky and I can never think of anything clever to say.