Salsa Night?

Salsa night? .. so we thought. This is a picture of us before out night out to Salsa. Supposedly they have salsa nights at this place every Fri night and Sat night, but apparently people only Salsa on Saturdays... so it was pretty dead. We danced on a deserted floor once, and I wasn't feeling great anyway. However, the night was still young. We went a few more blocks down to a place called Nana Plaza, and never again. A bit on the seedier side, but VERY interesting... and I guess repulsive is a better word... as older men walked out of a mini mall of "those" kind of clubs with girls labled with numbers around their wasteline. Don't ask me how we know this (jk jk) but to have one of these girls more than sit next to you in these clubs, costs 150 baht. To take them in the room upstairs for two hours is 600Baht, and to take them home for the night was 1500Baht. There's 35baht to the 1USD, you can do the math. But basically that equals = sad if you ask me. As it is- most of this is bonded labour... and you can tell the girls aren't happy, barely even fake smile most of the time. On the flipside, we checked out something Bangkok is even more famous for. The tranny scene. AND WOW... they guys, I mean, gals, are very impressive. Oddly enough they liked me more than my guy travel partner... which I thought was a bit ironic... but I guess they could feel the straight vibe coming off him. Sorry, no pix aloud in the clubs... but seriously, you would never be able to tell the difference. I mean literally on the flip-side, these "lady-boys" as they call them, are way more excited about what they're doing for a living. I think this really could be a product of them doing what they love, as opposed to what the other women in the industry often are forced to.