Polish Gentleman in Bangkok on his Way to Cambodia

Polish Gentleman in Bangkok on his Way to Cambodia - Chris Coles

........fresh from the cold, grey winter in Poland, he's stopped off in Bangkok on his way to Cambodia for a few weeks of adventure with sweet little Khmers...................is he an undercover priest or just an ordinary man.........whichever, for sure he's a sinner..............

Mona Lisa Patpong

Patpong Mona Lisa - Chris Coles

......some say that Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was a transvestite hooker from the streets near his studio, the mysterious smile reflecting both her own and Leonardo's sexual ambiguity......

......in a world of reincarnation, could it be possible Mona Lisa's alive and well in the Bangkok district called Patpong, perhaps as a wired Thai Ladyboy or as a beautiful and tender Isan bargirl named Wan Jai.....

.......who can say for sure..........................

Italian Sex Tourist Nana Plaza Bangkok

Italian Sex Tourist Nana Plaza Bangkok - Chris Coles/2008

......he's partied in Estonia, Prague, Havana and Rio, even little Costa Rica..........but he always comes back to Bangkok........Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy, Patpong, Sukhumvit, the mighty Ratchada. There's something about the ambiance and smiles, the slender girls........the music, the street stalls......the feeling of another planet beyond space and time.................

Bangkok Ladyboy Obession Bar Nana Plaza

Bangkok Ladyboy Obession Bar Nana Plaza - Chris Coles

..........every night, night after night, she sits in Nana Plaza's Obession Bar, waiting for her clients, ongoing and unknown, a master of illusion and desire, ferocious, cunning, hauntingly beautiful, a victim of circumstance and mis-construed re-incarnation, open to the world and totally at risk, doomed, too many drugs and hormones, too much plastic surgery, a predator in the Bangkok Night, ready to accept the projections of others and her own complicated Karma.................

American CEO Swindler in Patpong

American CEO Swindler in Patpong - Chris Coles

..........often featured on the covers of mainstream business magazines, he's a well-known CEO who bilked his investors in LA out of hundreds of millions and now he's looking for a place to hide, finding the perfect spot in a short time hotel in Patpong, Bangkok's center of sleaze and delusion, where he feels free to live without pretense as to who he actually is and what he actually likes to do.................

Midnite Bar Soi Cowboy

Midnite Bar Soi Cowboy - Chris Coles

.....one of the oldest bars on Soi Cowboy, Midnite is friendly and funky with a raunchy overlay. The beers cost two dollars and the girls, mostly Lao from the part of Thailand called Isan, are easy-going, always looking for an excuse to be outrageous and have some fun. The guys, mostly Expats, some Japanese, think they're back in college, hanging out at a roadhouse bar for sex and rock 'n roll, the problems of their adult lives forgotten...........

Thai Rent Boy Bangkok Boys Town

Thai Rent Boy Bangkok Boys Town - Chris Coles

.....at the same time kind-hearted and mercenary, he works the gay Farangs who wander through Bangkok Boys Town, night after night, week after week, month after month, year after year, hoping to get lucky before he dies from Aids...........there are so many of them, not hundreds or thousands but hundreds of thousands, passing by for some fun on their way to oblivion..............luckily he is Buddhist and knows that if he treats the Farangs well, gives alms to the Monks and sends money to his family, his next life will be better...............