The Horror

● FETISHISTS

Bar Bar Fetish Club in Patpong Pay B1,000 at the door and all your fantasies could come true.

Playroom Fifty Shades of Greythemed cocktail bar with some naughty S&M decor items like chains and handcuffs.

Bar Dusk A new spot for heavy metal lovers to meet and mingle.

● NATURE LOVERS

Benjakitti Park Bangkok’s favorite new central spot for birdwatching, picnicking, and Instagraming.

Chitbeer A craft beer bar isn’t your normal spot for nature lovers, but it’s on a river island, Koh Kret, and you can spend the day waltzing around the car-free greenery.

Green Lung Grab a bike and cycle Bangkok’s most underrated nature destination all day. Visit the Fighting Fish Museum and, if things go well, you can stay at the Bangkok Tree House.

The world is a weird place to be single and on dating sites— especially for women— but your date could be worse. We asked for online dating horror stories, and, jeez, some of you need to sort yourselves out. All names have been changed for decency’s (and safety’s) sake.

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Annie

I was on tinder and there was this Western guy whose pic was him holding up a long rifle like he was shooting some poor animal. I remember looking at it kinda stunned when my phone rang, and I answered it and my ear accidentally swiped right on the guy! Next thing I know I get a message ‘Oh thank god! A Caucasian!’ I quickly told him it was a mistake and unmatched.

Dentata

He spent the whole date talking about his bad teeth, going into great detail about how rotten they were because he never brushed them. He went into intimate detail about the dental surgeries he was having, so much detail that I was put off the sushi we were eating. After the date, which I thought was excruciatingly bad, we were outside and he grabbed me and mashed his face against mine, forcing his tongue into my mouth. I was so repulsed, I actually gagged, pushed him away, and literally ran. Then he messaged and called for months trying to get another date.

Joe

Tinder suggests a top ten hot girls each day. One of those girls matched with me. After a few talks she said, ‘Ok, do you want to be my boyfriend?’ Oh my god. When I say this I know I sound like a total fool. What on earth would make a hot, pretty girl like that want to be my girlfriend. So I was lured into the trap. She asked me to purchase some expensive stuff and said we could meet. I purchased a few things for her a few times, and I felt like this was not right. So, I complained and stopped, asking her if we could meet. She stopped talking to me and her Line ID disappeared. I was such a fool.

Madoff

I went on a date here in Bangkok with a Thai man that was just an MLM pitch. We met on Tinder. I got out of there after 30 mins and gave him fake information for his MLM recruitment form.

Grey

He told me he and his wife were opening up their marriage. He wanted to try out being dominant sexually. I was like, ‘Cool! I’m into it.’ We had absolutely nothing in common but we went back to my apartment anyway. Apparently by ‘try out being dominant’ he meant ‘hit me with a hairbrush and belt buckle.’ Before he left he told me his wife’s only rule had been ‘no sex on the first date.’ I immediately unmatched, but he found me on Facebook and messaged me to ask if I had accidentally unmatched wMINT

I work in media and when I was freshly single I was swiping at work. I came across a vegan fitness dude on Tinder and thought, ‘I need to interview this guy for my column.’ So, I swiped right and started a conversation. He was super flirty and narcissistic, telling me not to fall in love with him. I had to make a decision about my column so I kindly told him that I would save him for another profile cycle due to deadlines. To which he said, ‘Fine! Moving on to the next guy then,’ and proceeded to send me angry texts. I said goodbye and blocked him. Years later he reached out to my magazine pitching himself. He also tried to message me cordially, remembering that we chatted before but clearly not remembering his behavior.

Dorothy

This one guy very insistently tried to get me to give him a handy during a Wizard of Oz screening. Same guy later took me to his parents house on the other side of Bangkok. I sat awkwardly at the dining table across from his mom while he changed upstairs. I’d met him like a week prior.