Thai Table Tennis

I consider myself an open minded woman. Although I strongly believe in girl power, I can understand why some women earn money stripping. Besides I have lots of friends who are pole dancers - whether they earn money, perform or just go for classes. They are all elegant, glamorous and beautiful people. They have the ability to bewitch men, but keep their diginty at the same time.

Personally, I think dancing around a pole is fun, an amazing work out too. Then again I've never danced on a pole in a club! So liberal as I think I am, I was still horrified when I found myself at a Ping Pong show near the Pat Pong Market in Bangkok.

I guess I'd expected stunning girls doing amazing tricks. I was shocked to instead see them in tacky bikini's (I'm talking gold plastic), some fat, some with disgusting big ugly tattoos, others without make-up on or with their hair scraped back like they'd just finished a shift in the fish market!

They stood on the stage obviously bored and unengaged. Sure, they pulled string out from inside themselves, they squatted over paper to draw pictures. Admittedly I was impressed when they popped balloons using darts and blew out Birthday cake candles...... For those of you who are a bit naive and innocent - I'm referring to the women doing these tricks using ONLY their lady garden!

Despite feeling the tiniest bit impressed, it was when one offered to light someone's cigarette that I thought, how vile. Why would he want to smoke it after it had been in there! Surely he'd risk getting Chlamydia or worse on his lips!! And shame on the woman, everyone knows smoking is bad for your health, but doing it in between your legs - well surely there's some sort of law against it!!

Despite all the negativity I am glad I went to see what all the fuss is about. You don't find many young backpackers/ holiday makers who have not been to one. The 'dancers' were pushy though, they over charged and wanted a tip for everything. I always thought that going into a seedy place like this I'd feel a bit self conscious, but in there the competition wasn't all it was cracked up to be!

It's opened my eyes as well, I never realised how many things you can do with your downstairs department! How did they even come up with the idea to start with?!

Unfortunately, I won't be testing it on my Fletch It First blog, sorry guys! And to be honest, never will I see a Birthday cake with candles in quite the same way ever again!