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South East Asia Expat 

Since I started this blog a few years back I have had a steady stream of readers who have wanted to learn more about Bali and South East Asia in general. I have also had great fun sharing that information and interacting with my readers on a regular basis and I feel blessed to have had the opportunity so thank you all so very much.

Recently I decided that the time had come to change to a new host and to expand my blog to take in all of South East Asia, and although I am excited I also a little bit sad to be moving on. Luckily the link to my new blog is below and I would love it if all my loyal readers would visit my new site, southeastasiaexpat.org

If you do want to continue to associate with Malcolm Scott and Bali Raw please copy and paste the following link and I look forward to a visit from you soon:  http://southeastasiaexpat.org/

Please move across with me and I will take great pleasure in sharing my stories and my information about South East Asia well into the future.

Best Regards

Malcolm Scott

Man Handled - an excerpt from Bali Raw 2

Lady-boys on the prowl

Many men that attempt to utilise Bali's sex industry while on holiday in Bali are duped by lady-boys. There are gangs of these feminine looking rouges that hang around Bali's back streets. They prowl the early hours of the morning like tomcats and they seek out drunken tourists looking for misadventure.

Lady-boy pickpockets

It is always wise when confronted by a group of these individuals to keep at least arm's distance away from them. The transvestites that hang around Kuta are often deft pickpockets. Their modus-operandi is for two or three to crowd the unsuspecting mark and distract him with questions and or groping, then once he is preoccupied pushing lady-boys away, to relieve him of his valuables.

Generally the lady-boys in Bali are not as good at covering their true sexual identity as their counterparts in other places in the world. So it is surprising just how many men are deceived into taking a lady-boy back to their rooms. It would seem that most men who dabble with Bali's sex industry have had the, "I took  home a lady-boy but I didn't sleep with her" experience. Alcohol consumption tends to have a lot to do with this as most of these characters appear less than convincing when looked at in the daylight hours. 

There are, however, now a lot of surgical procedures available to help transsexuals further the illusion of their femininity. There are the obvious breast implants and sex reassignment surgeries. Then there are the more innocuous procedures, facial feminisation, tracheal shave, voice modification, chin/jaw reduction and thigh implantation surgery to name a few. These procedures are becoming cheaper and more affordable in Indonesia.

The sure-fire lady-boy test 

The best way I have found to check if the person you are dealing with is of the same sex is a test I was taught by an expat who had lived in Bali for some years. If you are suspicious of the woman you are thinking of dating you may want to try this:

1. Ask the woman/man in question to extend their arm out and keep it as straight as possible.
2. Place one of your hands underneath the extended arm and cup their elbow.
3. Place your other hand on the person's open palm.
4. Apply a gentle downward pressure to the palm and a gentle upward pressure to the elbow.

If the arm bends down passed the 180 degrees mark then the person you are dealing with is likely to be a woman. If the arm remains level on 180 degrees then it may be a good idea to run like hell. This is the only sure-fire test that works and cannot be corrected by inexpensive surgery as far as I know.

©Malcolm Scott

Aussie tourists and HIV-positive hookers in Bali

Did you see this story by Steve Pennells in the West Australian newspaper on the weekend about Australians and HIV- positive working girls in Bali?

Here's a taste of the article:

"Australians are not good," Lily says, sitting on the floor of a small room in Sanur surrounded by cheap glamour photos taken of her in a bikini. 

 The young ones are always "mabuk", she explains, using the Indonesian word for drunk.  

And they are often rough.  

"I see it at Paddys Bar all the time. They are drunk, stupid and fighting," she says. She has sex with at least one Australian tourist each night, picking them up at the iconic 

Paddys Bar where she pays the staff RP50,000 ($5.43) to get inside and flirt with the tourists. When she goes back to their hotel, many refuse to use a condom.  

And she never tells them she is HIV positive. It's bad for business.

You can't be too careful. Seriously. I've seen so many men pick up a girl in a bar, without realising she's a working girl. And I've seen nearly as many offer to look after a girl so she can stop working and behind his back, she's still on the game. The prevalence of AIDS among working girls in Bali is SHOCKINGLY high, and tourists who stupidly insist on no protection are making a huge mistake.

This is exactly the kind of thing that made me start to write Bali Raw. People need to know the truth about the dark side of Bali.