I'm ninety-nine percent straight and one percent lesbian. By that I mean I've had sex with a lot of men and only one woman. But, oh, lord, did I have sex with that woman!
I'm American and I was working as an accountant in Bangkok, Thailand. I was 40, unattached, and taking men home with me when I could find them. In sin-city Bangkok that wasn't as easy as it sounds. The eligible men like Thai girls who are cheap, willing, and attractive. A round-eye like me often gets left out.
Hearing from friends about the skill of a Thai masseuse, I hired her to come to my house after my Sunday morning tennis game. I didn't know what to expect -- although I knew that when men went to a Thai massage parlor the culmination of their purchased hour was a hand job. More than that was an extra cost option. But my massages were innocent -- although sensual as the nearly naked little Thai girl crawled all over me and came very close to making me purr. I say girl because my masseuse was named Noi, which means "small" in Thai, and she was small, about five feet tall and less than 100 pounds. Compared to her I was a moose at five feet eight and 150 pounds. She was 25 years old, but looked a teenager.
Noi worked during the week at a large, well-known massage parlor, occupying a prominent five story building and employing 50 girls. She told me to telephone her at the massage parlor if I wanted a massage during the week. One slow afternoon in the Embassy, man-less and horny, I did just that.
Noi was available. She told me to come to the side door of the massage parlor where I would be met and escorted to her room. I didn't want to go in the front door of the massage parlor to be seen by a dozen or more male tourists picking out their masseuse -- and sex partner -- by examining them through a fishbowl window. In Thai massage parlors, the girls awaiting potential customers sat in a brightly lit room on a stairstep platform. They wore short, white dresses and have a red number pinned on her chest. The men stood outside the fishbowl, gazed in and selected a partner by telling the attendant her number. "I'll never forget number 23" is a standard joke among men in Thailand.
I took a taxi to the massage parlor and nervously found my way to the side door. Waiting for me was an older woman with a small flashlight. I slipped in through the door and the woman led me down pitch black corridors and up a freight elevator to Noi's room. The corridors were dark to ensure that surreptitious customers like me did not run into their boss or spouse or priest.
Noi's room contained a bathtub and a massage table covered with a mattress. Noi was dressed in a white nurse-like uniform although the dress was too short and the zipper down the front open enough to reveal what little cleavage she had. She had the number 42 pinned to her chest.