Can you blame him?

In the front page of today's Inquirer, there is a picture of Manny Pacquiao with his family. The last page of the section showed a seductive wet-bikini picture of the alleged "other" woman---Krista Ranillo. Suddenly, out of nowhere, she has become a household name.
I don't really find her pretty. But beside Jinkee Pacquiao, she is a goddess. Can I blame Manny for straying?
What boggles my mind is not so much how can he choose Krista over Jinkee, but more on how could he think he could get away with it. There is a reported video of him with Krista driving away together from the Jimmy Kimmel show. He has one of the most recognizable faces in the world. Did he think nobody will recognize him?
I really don't care about Jinkee. I also don't care about Krista. They can fade away from memory and the world will not be any worse. I also wouldn't care if Manny has countless affairs and his marraige turns south. What I care about is Manny the boxer. I hope this does not distract him.
P.S. I am writing this using Squarespace's iPhone app. It's useful if you want to fire out a quick post, but prologed typing may lead to headaches. And please forgive me for any misspellings. I never really got used to the virtual keyboard.

A comment on raids

I stumbled upon a comment in one of those adult-themed forums. The comment was on a recent raid in one of the Ortigas area spas, deriding the law-enforcement agents who conducted the raid. Shame on them, the commenter said, for asking more money during this Yuletide season!

Another commenter lamented that there are bigger crimes out there, yet these law-enforcement agents choose to target spas.

My response to this? People should get into the reality program.

Raids of adult establishments have been happening since, well, these establishments were popping up. As early as the 1980s, law-enforcement agents were raiding massage parlors like Maalikaya and Imperial. Nothing new there.

Spas, as well as any other similar establishment like massage parlors and KTVs, that offer sexual favors for a fee are not exactly legit. I believe that is crystal. Law-enforcement agents thus believe they have the authority to raid and detain the perpetrators. Whether the timing is right or wrong is a moot point.

Besides, it is all about the money. Face it, the ladies and the therapists do what they do because they need the money. Guys should not fool themselves into thinking that they are doing it because of their charm and good looks. We are being screwed (literally) for our money, while they are being screwed (figuratively) by certain law-enforcement agencies for money as well.

I remember when I discovered that one spa that I frequent was shut down. It was irritating but I just shrugged and walked a few meters to the next spa.

So to those infantile whiners, why waste effort and complain? You're not exactly involved in a legitimate activity anyway. Raids on adult-oriented establishments are as much a fact of life as, well, the monthly period of your favorite PSP. You can bitch all you want but it won't stop the flow. I know you can be titillated in having your dick stroked and consequently frustrated to find out that the spa is shut down, but there are other spas out there. Thank goodness for free enterprise!

Conversations with a Talent Manager

Over the weekend I have had several discussions with a talent manager. No, she is not an escort handler. Nancy is an honest legit manager who provides photo-shoot models, ramp models, commercial models, ushers and usherettes for corporate events and product advertisements. She allowed me to browse through pictures of her stable of talent. There were familiar faces, ones I have seen in billboards and TV advertisements. She had models that were hot and sultry, young and innocent, mature and feisty. Aspiring talents are free to send her pictures but Nancy withholds judgement until she herself supervises a studio shoot and a VTR.

Nancy provides talents for a standard fee of P5000 for 3 hours. For higher-end talents---e.g., Brazilian models---the fee goes up to P7000. Nancy gets a 20 to 30 percent cut. Nancy takes care of the transportation and the makeup and, if the client so desires, even the wardrobe. Most companies, she said, provides their own wardrobe.

I pointed to one of the talents. She looked stunning with her smooth flowing hair, svelte figure, and dark almond eyes. I couldn't believe that she was worth P5000. I figured that she would be about P10,000. Nancy confirmed that she would pose for a studio or usher a corporate event for only P5000 for 3 hours. "Whole day events would naturally cost more," she added. The talent gets something like 3 bookings a week, and she is paying for the condo unit of her mother, so what is gives up on price she makes up with quantity.

"How about celebrities and actresses?" I inquired.

Nancy shrugged. They have their own personal managers, she replied. Many of the marquee celebrities charge hundreds of thousands, even millions, just for a billboard ad.

So why am I writing this, given the context of this site?

Because many guys out there think they can get a photo-shoot model for P5000.

Ok, maybe they think they got a photo-shoot model for P5000. Chances are that alleged model had only submitted her VTR to a talent agency. Or maybe, in the advertisement that she was in, she was just a face among the crowd of people behind the real photo model. I would be skeptic if a photo shoot model charges P5000 for a sexual tryst. Most photo-shoot models I have met for such activities charge no less than P10,000.

The reality is that a photo-shoot model already gets something like P3500 to P4000, tax-free, without having to lie naked under the sheets and swap bodily fluids with a total stranger. Would she risk it for an extra P1000?

(Photo Credit, , and as far as I know, the model in that picture is not an escort)

Zenso Spa

I just came from Zenso Spa. I admit that I went there because I was curious about a therapist who allegedly provided some oral sex. There seems to be a trend nowadays of therapists willing to provide more than the customary handjob. So far, with the many spas that I have visited, I've had all-the-way sex, BBBJ with CIM, BBBJ coupled with the handjob, and some heavy groping with the therapist stark naked on the massage bed.

I found Zenso through one of the adult-themed forums. The therapist was described as "eager to please," "providing GFE," "athletic, "chinita," with a looks rating of 8 out of 10, and a performance rating as 10 out of 10. According to the post, she charges P1,000 for a BJ.

The therapist was charming. She was eager to please. The description of "athletic" conjured up images of a tall, slender, long-limbed therapist. But "chubby" would have been a better description. She had love handles and her body was more cylindrical than slim. I guess whoever posted "athletic" was just being polite. And a rating of 8 was being somewhat generous. I guess this just proves one thing---beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

The place was clean but extremely cramped. The massage room was small. There was barely enough room to even undress. There was also no locker to secure your belongings, which was disturbing. If there was a locker, the therapist did not point it out. The bed took up all of the space. There is no space to walk around it. There was not an inch separating the bed from the walls. The therapist has to be on the bed with you as she massages you. Well, it was interesting to feel her groin grind against my waist as she kneaded my back. It would have more comfortable if I had more space to undress.

The ES was, well, standard fare. I went there for the fellatio and yes the promise was delivered, but I found the whole experience expensive. P1,300 for the massage, P1000 for the ES. For just a few more hundreds of pesos I could have gone instead to a massage parlor, where I would get the whole deal, In a previous trip to a Makati spa, I got a massage and a BBBJ with CIM for something like P1,300. But I suppose that not all therapists in Zenso provide that type of ES.

Why we need the RH Bill

From Filipino Free Thinkers, I found this article in Inquirer. It paints a disturbing picture of the Filipina.

“Of all the nationalities surveyed, Filipinas were the most misinformed, with the biggest body-knowledge gap,” according to the Kimberly-Clark paper detailing the results of the survey.

“Eighty-three percent of young [Filipino] women surveyed believed myths about their body to be true,” it added.

What myths? Here's one example: menstrual blood applied to the face could prevent pimples. Don't laugh. 38% of Filipinas who took that survey believe it to be true.

There's more. 26% believe that only men have hymens and 18% believe that riding a bike can de-virginize a woman.

With these numbers, I also wonder how many Filipinas believe that "pulling out" is an acceptable means of birth control, that you can't get STDs from oral sex, that five is the number of children one must have even if one is earning below minimum wage, that God will provide for the education and well-being of their children, that having sex in a full moon will prevent pregancy, and that one's uncle really has that many garages in their house.