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“Just to look,” he pleaded.

I put him off for five days, then finally gave in on our last night in Bangkok.

Partially to stop his nagging…

But also because my curiosity finally overwhelmed me.

I also hoped we’d see something in the club we could do that would make our sex life a little more interesting.

When we asked our cab driver for a recommendation, he took us to a club called Thang Phes, which I later found out meant ‘sexual’ in Thai.

What happened that night changed the entire course of my life.

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The club was huge, with nearly two dozen different rooms.

The front section wasn’t that unusual. After we paid the entrance fee, we walked down a dark hallway to an area with a bar, a dance floor complete with a disco ball and DJ, and tables where you could sit and drink.

The unusual thing was the number of people wearing nothing but terrycloth robes or lingerie.

There were fully dressed people, too, but not nearly as many.

“Come on,” my boyfriend said, and pulled me along to explore the rest of the dimly lit club.

Loud electronic music vibrated the air. On every wall hung signs in English, Thai, Spanish, French, Cantonese, Mandarin, and half a dozen other languages.

ALWAYS GET CONSENT.

YOU MUST PAY UP FRONT.

BE RESPECTFUL.

NO MEANS NO.

ALWAYS USE A CONDOM.

The first room we encountered was some sort of group sex area.

There were multiple leather ottomans in the center where people were fucking right out in the open in every conceivable position.

Men stood around getting blowjobs from naked women on their knees.

Over in the corner, half a dozen bodies were tangled together on a mattress.

Most of the men were Caucasian, although there were a few Asians, too.

Almost all of the women were Thai.

My boyfriend was enthralled; I was repulsed.

I tugged at his hand. “Come on.”

“I want to watch some more,” he said, ignoring me.

I let go of him and went exploring on my own (mostly because I was worried he would suggest we get naked and have sex like everyone else).

In the moments that followed, it felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole into a sex-drenched Wonderland.

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