The problem is to identify who is who. If you stop a girl in the street, she might be a bikini bar girl having a day off… Or a freelancer just going home after a night in the nightclub… Or a street hooker is looking for customers. The girl blinks the itch from her eyes and lets her arms fall to her sides and wiggles her hips. Is that dancing? Is it close enough? Two years pass. The girl from the G-Spot is still only a girl, 15 now, almost 16, which is how old she looks in the twilight on a bluff above Subic Bay, thirty miles southwest of the bars in Angeles City where she used to work. She’s wearing a red T-shirt and a thin silver chain that reflects gold in the sunset, and she has dark eyes and dark hair, but her skin is a faint shade lighter than most Filipinos’ because her father was a white man, an Australian.

Most girls don’t want money from you, but it’s a nice gesture to drop 500 Pesos in their bag or buy a gift as a way to say “thanks’.Their price is 2.000 – 5.000 Pesos depending on the type of bar and location. The bars in Perimeter road are cheaper than the one in Field Avenue.

She took a shower and came out with the towel wrapped tightly around her. I pulled it off, and found that she was even more beautiful naked than I imagined. Her skin was paler than the typical “ kayumanggi” (light brown) of the typical Filipina (Spanish blood, perhaps). Her nipples, surprisingly, were pinkish, and her pubes unshaved [I prefer women as God made them!] Her every curve was just right, neither too lean, nor too plump. The word ‘nubile’ comes to mind – the perfect ripeness of the young female, before it becomes over-ripe and starts to sag. It was a delight just to look at her. However, I was as good as my word, and though I caressed her gently, I made no attempt to have sex with her. She responded by giving me a surprisingly good massage, after which we talked for a while until I fell asleep.” Average girls are happy to go for 1.500 Pesos but young and hot spinners start at 2.000 Pesos. However, don’t pay more than 3.000 Pesos, unless she is a real “sex bomb”. The bars are everywhere, and there are girls in every bar. Yet none of the girls are technically prostitutes, because prostitution is illegal in the Philippines. A bar fine, in the national patois, is merely proper compensation for a club to let a girl out the door for a few hours, after which consenting adults can have at it—a ridiculous semantic wink that allows the industry to thrive with official deference if not outright sanction. (“I’ve had [aid workers] tell me you can’t stop it because to do so you’d have to arrest half the senate,” says one Western diplomat in Manila.) Indeed, much of the rest of the tourist sector is in on the gag. A guard with a machine gun at Ninoy Aquino International Airport sees a man in a suit with an American passport, grins, nods. “You have a good time, yes? You get some girls, yes?” A driver for the Makati Shangri-La, a five-star hotel, volunteers that he can procure an authentic virgin out in the provinces. Her parents will want 100,000 pesos, but she’ll be a real cherry girl, guaranteed, not some university coed faking it for a night because she’s short on tuition. She has a birth certificate that says she’s 19. It’s false, and obviously so, because she’s only 13, but nobody cares, because in the dark, under all that rouge and shadow, she looks old enough. All the girls—the other ones onstage, the ones waiting tables, the ones cuddling up to customers, sweet-talking foreign men into buying them drinks—look old enough, which isn’t very old at all. The mamasan at the G-Spot asked the girl how old she was, and she said 19 and showed her the birth certificate that couldn’t possibly be legit, and Mamasan hired her, gave her the boots and the bikini and rubbed makeup on her face and put her on a stage. That’s how it happened, just like that: A little girl walks into a bar and gets a job.

8.

Until it hurt too much to be crazy in love. On December 15, 2000, the girl’s father hanged himself in his apartment. It’s important to remember that the hymen may not be intact before vaginal sex. Some girls don’t even have a hymen. If she is HOT, her price would be on the higher end. If she is just an average girl, her rate will be lower.