Spicy food? Traffic jam? Shopping malls? Quite possibly yes — if you were reading some other sort of Thailand related blog. Different to the massage industry where business is thriving, maybe the prices have gone up a little but the ever increasing number of tourists and most expats are happy to pay Baht for an hour of very healthy entertainment.
The massage salons are usually also the places that most western men make their first experiences with paid sex. You can find the exact locations of all mentioned places on the map at the end of the article. The area most frequented by sex tourists and sexpats in Bangkok is Nana, and the biggest clusters of massage salons are found all along Soi 4. The courtyard of Soi 5 across opposite of Foodland is one of these typical clusters.
The massage girls there tend to be more naughty than usual, dressed in a different way and also have some really unique body shapes. What does matter though is that you can find literally dozens of naughty massage salons all along Soi 22, among them some truly extraordinary places offering services like prostate and tantra massage see below. Especially during the afternoon on weekdays when everyone seems terribly bored and playing the latest Line game on their phones.
But then you enter that small 50 meter alley and find one massage salon after another. Most of them are actually massage parlors offering the full program from 1, Baht upwards for 1 hour.
They all kind of target Japanese customers and many of the places are Japanese owned, too. Still open to everyone so just check it out for yourself. With most people looking for their special massage in Sukhumvit and Patpong, there are also a few massage hubs only known to few foreigners.
