Bar girl basic stuff

Bar Girl Basics: "No Money, No Honey"

First of all - the vast majority of working girls in Pattaya's bars and AGoGo clubs doesn't actually come from Pattaya but originates from Thailand's northeastern region known as "Isaan".
Traditionally "Isaan" has always been Thailand's poorest area, rich in cultural heritage but an only little developed, hardly industrialized rural region between the borderlines of Laos in the North and East, and the old Khmer empire of Cambodia in the South.
Traditionally, the people of Isaan are farmers, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the average Pattaya bar girl is not a sophisticated college girl but a rice farmer's daughter from remote village areas, who enjoyed only very little formal education and - in spite of her Western appearance - is actually very traditional (or old-fashioned for Western standards) and pays high respect to family values.
The average Thai bar girl, no matter how old (and they are usually older than what they look like!) looks back onto an unhappy history of at least one broken marriage or some 'disenchanting' love affairs with local man, who have transpired to be either an alcoholic, a wife-beater, a "butterfly" or gambler, or who are simply too lazy to work. (At least, that's the girls' versions.)
Nearly all bar girls - probably more than 90 percent, have given birth to at least one child that has been entrusted in their grandparents' care, meaning that most bar girls you will meet in Pattaya's nightlife areas, no matter how young they may be or look, are actually mothers.
So - given the poor educational background and the lack of lucrative employment opportunities in their home region - you may now have a guess what all these girls have come to Pattaya for and "sell pussy"?!
Look for a foreign boyfriend or husband? Whereas this may be a 'beneficial side-effect', first of all, however, the correct answer is "Money". "No money, no honey", as bar girls say. In other words, these girls haven't come here for "fucking around" and spending their nights in discos (which they may still enjoy, of course) but to make a living off their most valuable resource: their body.

Bar Girls vs Freelance Prostitutes

When an Isaan village girl has finally made the decision to seek an employment as "sex worker" in Pattaya, she has basically two choices:
a) look for a job in a regular beer bar (low base wages, long shifts) or b) work as pole dancer in aGoGo bar, provided she's not too shy to exhibit her body in front of a large male audience and is 'easy' enough 'on the eye'.
Other girls soon get tired of regular long working hours, or the bossy behaviour of a bar owner or 'mamasan', and decide to ply their trade as freelancers, roaming Pattaya Beach Road at night or hanging about in bars on Walking Street, discos and nightclubs, always in search of a generous gentleman and a potential "short-time" client.
Freelance Thai hookers can easily be picked up along the South Pattaya beach promenade or in one of the notorious Walking Street discos that operate as 'pick-up joints' for freelance girls, e.g. Marine Disco, Lucifer's or Tony's. You'll easily spot them there, or they'll just come and chat you up.
Obviously, you will not be required to pay a "bar fine". Unless when picking up Yaba junkies from the beach or so, prices for sexual service, however, don't vary significantly from what "regular bar girls" ask for: 500 Baht or so for a "short-time" session of an hour or so, and about 1000 Baht for "long time" (all night). Well, and apart from saving the "bar fine", you are not restricted to opening hours of nightspots ...
BUT please note: When you pick up freelance girls and take them back to your room, you might well save a couple of 100-Baht notes on 'bar fines'. If you end up in trouble, however, say you get robbed of your money, passport, mobile phones, or other belongings during your sleep - possibly after having been drugged -, your chance to find the same girl again somewhere on the streets of Pattaya is nearly as low as zero. (If you have problems with a girl from a bar, you can always go back to the bar where she works; most entertainment venues keep copies of their employees' ID cards.)
Take care and don't end up as the main performer in one of these "another foreigner drugged and robbed" news stories .