can't be bothered to read all that. my experience, in summary, pre-smart phone internet dating, thailand friends/DIA was amazing, i met and slept with countless, well in excess of 100 maybe 200, genuine thai women, no messing around with prostitutes and requests for payment. at the time it was normal, in hindsight it was amazing. i dabble a bit with internet dating these days but it's not the same, it's much harder work, though i still get my fair share of success.