Most tourists in Thailand clutch their Lonely Planet guides and follow a well-worn path: a quick stop in Bangkok, trekking outside of Chiang Mai, cocktails on the beach in Phuket. They see so little; they miss so much. To Thailand With Love tells where to eat cobra salad, where to find ghosts in Ayutthaya, where to spend an evening among fireflies, where to meet sea gypsies or hear the songs of gibbons, where to spend a day on a rice farm, where to learn to make paper from elephant dung. Add to this shopping tips, restaurant recommendations, secret sanctuaries provided by expats and frequent visitors—and an unforgettable trip is guaranteed.

Thai for Lovers is a helpful guide to your romantic communication with Thai people. The book contains useful words, sentences and expressions with Thai translation throughout. There are nine chapters: Greetings, General Conversation, Courting, Romantic Conversation, Making Love, Love Letters, Getting Married, Breaking Up and Slang. Two CDs follow along with the book.

Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL's impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. The author explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader regional trends across Asia where the economic potentials of female and queer fans are becoming increasingly important. Baudinette ultimately argues that the center of queer cultural production in Asia has shifted from Japan to Thailand, investigating both the growing international fandom of Thailand's BL series as well as the influence of international investment into the development of these media. The book particularly focuses on specific case studies of the fandom for Thai BL celebrity couples in Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Japan to explore how BL series have transformed each of these national contexts' queer consumer cultures.

Sure a lot of Thai girls are good in English especially hookers. But what if you want to ask a "normal" Thai girl out for a date? There are countless of nice Thai girls that have never dated a foreigner before but would love to if you can at least speak some basic Thai. Or think of all the university girls most of them don't speak English or are too shy but how if you tell them in Thai "You are cute, do you want to go for dinner with me?" Imagine how many more Thai girls you can meet if you know some really useful Thai vocabulary and phrases! Leaving alone to impress girls no matter if they speak English or not. And not just for arranging quick dates - if you are in a relationship with a Thai girl it does make sense to know how to ask her if she's horny or ask her to undress. You will learn all this and much more in this book. The Thai Love Course is divided into two parts: The first part is about teaching you all the language skills you need in order to talk to Thai girls confidently. There are 6 lessons: 1. Courting / Arranging a Date Learn everything from "What's your name?", "Where do you go?", "You are cute" to "Are you free tonight?" and "Do you want to have a meal together?" Step by step from the first thing you tell her to arranging a date. 2. During the Date / Bring her back to your room Once it's time to meet her and take her out for the date you will have a repertoire of more than enough questions and statements to convince her to go back to your or her room like "It's hot here, isn't it?", "Do you live alone?", "Do you want to watch a movie in my room?" and many more. 3. In the Apartment / Making Love The tools for your bedroom: "I love your skin", "Can I hug you?", "Can I kiss you?", "Don't be shy" to "What is your favorite position? ", "Does it hurt?", "That feels good?" are just a few things you will be able to tell your girl. 4. Talking about Feelings If you want to be able to ask your honey why she loves you as well as understanding her answer - this chapter provides all relevant words and phrases you need to know. Also including useful tools for pickup lines ("You are so kind", "I don't want to sleep alone", "Do you want to be my girlfriend?" etc). 5. Breaking up Sooner or later you may want to end the relationship with your Thai girl and rather than ignoring her messages there are several ways to tell her that it's over and also give a reason for it ("You don't care about me at all", "You barely call me", "It's better we break up" etc). 6. Talking to Bar Girls / Hookers There is not one foreigner that I know who comes to Thailand on holiday or lives here permanently and has not been in "contact" with Thai bar girls. So in the final chapter you'll find everything related to talking to bar girls and hookers ("What time do you finish work? ", "I want to take you outside", "How much do you want?", "That's too much" etc). You'll love this one. Each chapter has a list of relevant vocabulary followed by useful sentences for real conversations. Everything comes in English, Thai transliteration and Thai script. The second part is about understanding the way Thai girls are thinking and what they expect from you in a relationship. Plus bonus content including Pick Up Lines that really work and the most important Isaan Words.

This book examines two aspects of the abbreviated reign of King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946), or King Rama VIII, of the current Chakri dynasty of Thailand. First, it discusses the royal family’s plot to thwart a romantic relationship between the young king, Ananda, and his Swiss girlfriend, Marileine Ferrari, a daughter of a famous pastor of Lausanne, Switzerland. Interracial marriage, particularly with Westerners, has been strictly forbidden for Thai kings or heirs apparent. The restriction stems from the interwoven connection between sexual relationship and the security of the throne. The second part investigates the mysterious death of King Ananda, a long-held taboo topic in Thailand. Although the two events were not specially related, both in their own way served to unavoidably shake the position of the monarchy and hence threaten its existence. The palace’s reactions to these events demonstrated its continuous search to maintain its power and ultimately to warrant its survival.

This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from relatively wealthy, developed countries. It is generally assumed that economic deprivation or economic opportunities are the main factors, but this book instead focuses on the work of women’s imagination in online cross-cultural relationships, including the role of desire, love and intimacy. The experiences of Thai women are used to explore how they initiate, develop and maintain love and intimacy with Western men across distance and time. The book shows that, in the absence of opportunities to search and meet partners from geographically distant parts of the world, the technology of the internet offers new ways of searching for and managing relationships and has significant consequences for local experiences and expectations of love and partnering. The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in family and intimate life, gender and sexualities, Asian and Thai studies, globalization and nationalism, culture and media, sociology and anthropology.

"These are the real life experiences, true stories told by the men who came to Thailand looking for love and the Thai women who loved them"--P. [4] of cover.