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How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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When the roaring plane arrives in Bangkok and tourists land curiously in the city of angels, the exotic customs gradually lift their mysteries.

The ubiquitous 711, the never-ending night neon, dark-skinned Thais, and the "Savadika" with their hands folded to express their friendliness...

Bangkok's glamour is worthy of the reputation of the City of Angels, one of the most glorious tourist cities in the world and a destination that countless tourists love to visit.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(The Bustling and Magnificent City of Angels)

But under the bright light curtain, there will also be shadows creeping.

The glamour of Bangkok does not hide the city's problems – the huge contradiction between rich and poor, the bustling inner city and the desolate outer city, the stubborn old and the new generation who disdain tradition... The city is beautiful, but it is also full of problems.

On the table, the most noticeable thing for everyone is undoubtedly Thailand's most famous "special product": shemales. I don't know how many tourists visit Bangkok because they want to see the peculiar shemale performances.

So what exactly is a Thai shemale? Why would anyone choose to become a shemale? In the land of Thailand, what kind of real life do shemales live?

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Thai Shemale)

What is a shemale: the twisted product of coercion

The so-called Thai shemale refers to men who take estrogen since childhood and gradually take on female physiological characteristics. Most of them have feminine faces, but still retain many of the physical characteristics of men.

For example, male sexual organs, larger hands and feet than girls, Adam's apple and rough voice, etc. Here it is necessary to explain a premise: the gender of the shemale is still male.

Although they have bulging breasts, slender waist, and even lost their fertility due to taking estrogen, shemales are still "male" in Thai government regulations, which is also related to their psychological condition.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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Unlike "transsexuals" who can be legally considered women, shemales still retain male mental activity.

They did not become shemales because they "wanted to be women", but for various reasons, they were forced to become this terrible, special state.

In other words, the emergence of shemales actually stems from a pathological distortion. The boy involuntarily alienates the body step by step, and then takes on an external appearance that is completely inconsistent with the mind: this also makes the inner part of most shemales very painful.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Shemale Show)

Most of them develop gender identity issues and feel confused about their identity, gender and future, but even so, they must continue their work: to entertain the spectators of the show as shemales.

In the eyes of tourists, shemales are a strange, seductive, sexy group of people, they have a female appearance, a male voice, and attract the attention of countless people with hot song and dance performances.

Because the psychological gender of shemales is male, they can use this to understand and capture the hearts of guests, so that more guests can love them.

But this still cannot change the real psychological situation in their hearts: they are still men, and they are using men's mental ways and ways of thinking to please men.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Shemales may be more seductive than real women)

This behavior does not make them happy, but in order to survive, the shemales have no other way.

Having said this, we can come to the conclusion that shemales are a transgender population that is forcibly distorted in the absence of inner psychological needs. They still have masculine sex characteristics, but they have feminine appearance.

So why would anyone choose to become a shemale? Or why would they choose to be forced to distort and become this half male and half female gender?

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Thai Shemale)

Second, the choice of the economy: the revival of the service industry

According to statistics, the number of Thai shemales is about 640,000.

There are many theories about the emergence and origin of these 640,000 shemales: some people believe that the appearance of shemales is related to the "geldings" in India, and some people believe that these men who choose to become shemales are because they have lived in an environment that likes to imitate women since childhood.

But the most widely circulated, most recognized, and most credible statement is economic: as mentioned earlier, these poor people who have taken estrogen since childhood and alienated themselves step by step are forced to choose to become shemales because of money problems!

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Poverty is the soil for shemales)

The credibility of this statement is relatively high, and the argument is relatively sufficient. Because in the local concept of Thailand, in the sixties and seventies of the last century, the number of shemales was relatively small.

But after the seventies, the number of shemales began to rise in a blowout, and until the twenty-first century, the number of shemales reached hundreds of thousands, and even increased year by year.

This is because after the seventies, the US troops stationed in Thailand withdrew - which caused a strange phenomenon that people named "withdrawal symptoms".

The so-called "withdrawal symptoms" refer to the confusion of Thais in the face of the new era after the withdrawal of US troops - when US troops are present, Thailand's main economic source, or the economic activity of the Thai people at the bottom, is the service industry. American troops gamble, prostitutes, smuggle drugs...

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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If there is demand, there will be a market, not to mention that this is still the US military, the richest people in the world at that time! At its peak, there were more than 50,000 US troops stationed in Thailand!

In front of the brandishing of green bills, Thailand's service sector is booming. Hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, massage parlors and, of course, the red light district... Thailand's economy is gradually showing a deformed boom.

But the good times did not last long, and when the US troops withdrew, Thailand was left with only chicken feathers. A large number of service industries are closed, and the former money-making industries are now losing money... This is the "withdrawal symptom" because of the economic problems caused by the withdrawal of US troops.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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What's more frightening is that everyone who has made enough quick money has become dependent on the service industry, and everyone is desperately looking for a new way to attract tourists as a pillar of the service industry.

Shemales, just appeared in the eyes of everyone. They are uniquely competitive enough to attract tourists, and more importantly, shemales are cheap enough! Just estrogen can turn one normal male after another into a "shemale".

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Before and after Shemale)

This kind of high quality and low price, in addition to harming the dignity and interests of the parties concerned, can be called the perfect substitute for the service industry, isn't it the best way to attract tourists and make the service industry prosper again?

In this way, shemales have been made into Thai specialty products. As we have seen in advertisements and movies, Thailand's promotion of shemales spares no effort, and they do receive benefits: a large number of tourists come to visit, bringing a lot of economic profits to Thailand.

When poor people discover that shemales can make money, even make a lot of money, the follow-up results appear - poor families begin to give their children estrogen in the hope of making money. The few shemales have gradually expanded...

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Shemales are no longer rare these days)

A miserable future: the balance of money and flesh

Perhaps in the eyes of many tourists, shemales are shiny in appearance - they are beautiful, peculiar, and have a charm that distinguishes them from men and women.

They can make money, a performance can be eye-catching just a tip, and this kind of performance is often full - can make money, it's good-looking, what's wrong with such a life?

But only the shemales themselves know what tragic truth they hide under their beautiful exterior: because of taking estrogen, their physiology is chaotic.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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Their endocrine disorders, because of long-term medication discomfort, and even cause various diseases... This also causes the life span of shemales to generally not be long.

They have no future – almost all shemales. Because as early as when they use estrogen to cause irreparable damage to their bodies, the future result is already doomed.

They will eventually die prematurely, and they will not end well.

Except for some lucky shemales who are in love because of their appearance can spend a lot of money to completely complete sex reassignment surgery and return to normal, the future of most shemales is very bleak.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(With sex reassignment surgery, shemales can become completely female, but this is very expensive)

Don't they know? Of course they know that. But what can be done to know? Poverty is a terrible curse, and in order to get poverty away, they have to put their health and flesh on the scales and use them as bargaining chips in exchange for money.

But compared to some of their more miserable compatriots, these shemales who can perform normally are lucky enough. At least they can live in the sun, in the night, without hovering on the fringes of society.

So in addition to these shemales who perform "normal performances", are there any shemales hovering in the corners of society? How do they work, or rather, what is their life like?

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Shemale Show)

Fourth, the sad song of the red light district: street solicitation, secret places, pitiful and hateful

NANA, BANGKOK'S MOST FAMOUS RED LIGHT DISTRICT. Located in the middle of Bangkok, this famous place of customs is not what most people think.

In a secluded place away from the crowds – in fact, if you can look up, you'll see the light rail speeding high in the sky and the bustling shopping district nearby.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(NANA PLAZA, RED LIGHT DISTRICT)

It is home to people from all over the world: Chinese, English, German, black, white, yellow as they walk through the congested streets, show their passports under police checks and walk into the surrounding red-light district.

There are beautiful sex workers, non-stop bar stereos, and all kinds of huge "shows." They may be unfortunate. Because the work they do is, in the eyes of most people, undoubtedly a debasement of their own dignity.

But they must have been lucky in comparison. Because on the street across the wall from NANA, where tourists come through the traffic lights, there is a group of people who are doing the same work as them, but crawling in the shadows. That's the shemale.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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Most of the shemales outside of NANA are people who have experienced obvious financial difficulties: they may not look good, they may have been kicked out of the gogo bar (a bar where sex workers work) because of unclean hands and feet, or it may be for other reasons...

But there was only one result: they had no way to sit in a fixed location, wait for customers to pick up, and earn relatively easy wages and tips. They can only stand by the side of the road, watching any tourists who might become their customers.

They will quickly strike after picking their prey, taking your arms and hands in the hope that you will go to their show. They'll say the price in broken English as a way to lure you out of NANA for a secret location—mostly hidden attics and rooms.

It is far from people, and there are often one or two "watching the scene" guarding the door, which looks very scary, very similar to the "black eats black" place in the movie. Most of the intrepid tourists fell on this step. 、

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After all, this kind of small place looks informal and unsafe. For most tourists who do not meet English standards, if they are pitted or robbed, they can't even call the police. More seriously, it may even be life-threatening.

But there will also be brave people who agree to the shemale's request to watch their "big show" - usually with some special actions with the first sexual characteristics, or put on some ambiguous poses, making seductive sounds to attract tourists. This performance often does not last long.

But when the show is over and ready to leave, the traps of the shemales will be revealed - most of the prices they tell you are false, if you want to leave? OK. Let's pay the performance fee.

Maybe five times, maybe ten times, maybe higher... But without exception, it's a complete mismatch for the show: that's the purpose of the shemales hovering around NANA, hoping to find a fat sheep and slaughter it fiercely.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

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Few tourists can escape their extortion, and in front of the crowded Thais, in front of the fierce shemales, the vast majority of tourists will obediently pay money as a lesson. Only a few tourists can leave safely by talking and threatening.

Tourists will be angry about this, but when the anger subsides, there is endless regret. Shemales who deceive tourists are hateful, but they are equally pathetic.

As mentioned earlier, they endure poverty and physical suffering, and stagger on a path with no future in sight. This is the Thai shemale living in a corner of society - a group of people born in tragedy, completely distorted and alienated by money.

Some of them may have changed their tragic fate, but many more have completely sunk into the margins of society. Their deception may be a last resort, but it will eventually lead them to self-destruction, step by step.

How miserable is the life of the bottom shemale in Thailand? Revealing the real life of Thai shemales engaged in the custom industry

(Beautiful Bangkok also hides a lot of darkness)

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