There's a glass pane separating us from the young women inside a mock shower scene. I'm getting used to the insanity and chaos here, which I must admit scares me just a little. But I like watching instead of being watched. There's plenty to see onstage. Dancers in Bangkok make good money, especially from farangs, or white foreigners.
Prostitution is illegal in Thailand.
But Thai officials have made a practice of telling themselves that if something is illegal, it doesn't exist, and they treat the sex industry the same way. Officials typically ignore brothels and sex clubs, and government bribery is common. Now and then a massage parlor gets busted, but not often. The U.S. State Department offers American travelers a couple of benign warnings about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in Thailand on its Web site, but there's more said about the malaria and bad water here. I'm not too worried about the State Department as I sit in Nana and watch a lesbian sex show behind the glass.