In thai society the gender rules are very strict, the social conduct and rules are very disciplinary this is also why many thai actually do suffer from high frustrations…but hard to detect as they don’t speak in public or outside family circles… Still I know from a Meditation Master that the level of frustrations are quite high. This is also the case in many constrianing asian societies where the social code is strict.

WHen it comes to gender roles these codes also dictate part of the background of what your analysis is about Thai/Farang relationships and the spread of Third gender…
Third gender (what you called the lady boys) are very commen in societies where the gender roles are strict and ruled, gender relations codified and dificuilt to maintain in such a changing world. India, Pakistan, Thailand and Korea have a lot of these third Gender and all the Pacific Islands (from Fiji to Samoa) where the third gender represent the tampon area the tampon group of the population necessary to keep the balance.

FOr my part again As I am walking through the streets of my neighbourhood or urban Bkk life I wonder why do Thai Men not look at Western women!!! As simple as that!
I know of 2 ladies one a very close friend and one a Meditation Master, former Zen nun and Master of Reiki and healer who is married with a Thai for the past 35 years… Speaks fluent Thai, teaches the Bodhidharma at University, read Pali text also but i guess she is not only an exception but an extreme rarity Unfortuntaly the husband died but the women is also one of the few foreigner who has not Thai citizenship… extremly rare circumstances.

LOve to you and see you soon.