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April 2009:

Classic Boys has never really appealed to me, and I seldom visit. My prejudices accompanied me even as I entered tonight, at about 22:15 h, making me notice the negative aspects immediately, but not the positive ones.

The boys are too small for my taste, I reminded myself. The mirror on the wall behind me was cracked – any moment now and shards of glass, loosened by the bass beat, would fall on me and cut my skull open. The seats are too hard and straightbacked. Fortunately, there was only one group of four other customers, so I still got one of the few seats with good sightlines; if there had been more patrons, I’d get a bad angle.

Ten minutes later, more customers came in, but they soon lit up. There – another negative about this place. Not only did a waiter rush up with an ashtray, the captain joined them with his own fag. Double negative.

Look closer, however, and Classic Boys does have its redeeming features. The 25 boys, while smallish, aren’t bad looking. OK, sure, about half of them are ladyboy wannabes, emaciated P2 and Q1 body types. But the other half had potential. Generally Q2, S1 and the occasional S2, some of them might be called the “boy next door” type. There were no muscular ones however, at best a handful who could be described as lean toned.

Another redeeming feature: very few tattoos in evidence.

Lights dimmed at 22:45 h for the show.

1. To the corny song “Welcome to Thailand”, four masculine-dressed supporting performers in traditional Thai costumes went circling around a female-dressed main character, but all with feminine hand movements. It was jarring.
2. Five guys in loincloths did a candle and hot wax dance.
3. An item by three dancers, dressed in Indian kilts, to an Indian song.
4. Three guys with speedos and lots of shower foam came on stage to gyrate about. Then two of them pulled the shorts off the third, revealing an erect cock. The shower is activated, more serpentine movements ensue and some sucking done.
5. The swimming tank is lit up and three swimmers do their routine. One has a speedo, two have cockringed manhoods.
6. Six come onto the stage. One pair get into the fucking mode. Two other pairs do the sucking thing; after a few minutes, the two suckees disappear. The fucking couple and the two with big cocks then circulate among the audience looking for tips.

To be fair, the show items look well rehearsed, with the moves confidently executed. Especially having seen the swimming show at Pattaya’s Copa just a few nights before, it was apparent that Classic’s was better. Not only were the swimmers’ moves rather more varied, the choreography was more “musical”, in that their moves reflected the phrasing of the music.

The crowd didn’t look promising when the show began; there were just nine customers, but a few more came in such that by the end of the show, at about 23:30 h, there were twenty.

Drinks: 200 baht. Off fee: 400 baht.

Classic Boys is located at the far end of Soi Pratuchai, also known as Soi Twilight and Soi Duangthawee. It is indicated in the inset map of Directions to Soi Pratuchai bars.