Enduring question: why do so many males travelling to Southeast Asia presently become sex-crazed maniacs?
Indeed, there are theories, about the heat, about the excitement, about the aromas, about the fantasy, about the women; indeed, all are good theories.
Having been stuck amid the heat, excitement, aromas, fantasy, and the women of Vietnam now for almost five months – waiting here while New Zealand deals with the aftermath of its Coronavirus/Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak – fair to say, yes, these factors do add to a male’s sexual appetite; yet many places in the world are warm, exciting, aromatic, fantastical and sexually inviting, so what makes places like Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, or Philippines different?
A Western tourist entering Southeast Asia will likely find themselves besieged by a plethora of biting insects; these insects penetrate the skin, usually on the hunt for blood, leaving behind irritation, hypersensitivity, and mild toxicity.
When any kind of toxification enters our body, the liver must work to purify the blood by filtering from our bloodstream the inimical agent.
This overactivity in liver function stimulates the body into a kind of hyperdrive rendering it less inhibited while making it more receptive to desire and creating greater sensual responsivity; thus, we have a temporary aphrodisiac effect.
Bloodstream toxification caused by any number of factors will generate a similar effect.
Toxification caused by alcohol – aphrodisiac?
Toxification caused by cannabis – aphrodisiac?
Toxification caused by illness – aphrodisiac?
Toxification caused by too many bug bites – aphrodisiac.
Therefore, couple bug-bite induced toxification with these other potential aphrodisiacs of Southeast Asia – heat, excitement, aromas, fantasy, the women – and a man is left feeling extremely vulnerable to sexual advances from exquisite Southeast Asian women.
Imagine my frustration then; having been in a relationship for past months with a typically beautiful Vietnamese woman who ‘wants to wait’.
Article by Tim Walker
Edited by Wey Tang
Photography by Stackin Pairer Dais