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Titillating Tales from Northern Thailand
Titillating Tales from Northern Thailand is an unusual and fascinating collection of tales from Northern Thailand containing - besides myths, legends, trickster tales, fairy tales, anecdotes etc - also a number of tales where sex is a central theme. The author of this volume spent several years in a Northern Thai village in the 1970ties, and was lucky to become friend with masterful storytellers, who loved to make their audience laugh, thus they also included tales relating in various ways to sex, such as how a married man living in the house of his wife's parents, is attracted to his wife's younger sister, and how he can have intercourse with her; or that celibate Buddhist monks still may have strong sexual desires, and in what ways they can have these desires fulfulled. In fact, the stories demonstrate how supposedly respecful people do not always behave respectfully or that they are simply rather stupid and do not diserve respect, thus many of the victims of trickery are in fact persons of authority. The stories give an rare insight into several aspects of Northern Thai sociey as well as Northern Thai oral tradition and humour.
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Published January 1, 2017
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January 8, 2025
I guess I did not expect so much sex in this story collection, and so many sex jokes. And there were many: a dog husband, tricking your wife, male rape, sxrewing a buffalo (which causes drought), penis jokes, and on and on it goes.
The non-Thai people seem to be characterized as not the smartest here. And in the case of the other story about the granny with the long pubic hair... ok, so she ripped it off with part of her pussy, and that stuck to the fence... how could one confuse that for the eye of a cow? And why didn't she just cut her pubic hair?
And when you reach the meditation level of jhana you can fly through the air, go through walls, become invisible, read other people's mind and get what you want by thinking about it... and that can be broken by touching a woman's breast. Funny how so many superpowers can be taken away so easily.
But why is this story about the blind guy funny? Is it supposed to be because he didn't acknowledge that he was blind?
And how where the monkeys in one story supposed to know which roots were long and which short without taking the plants out? Granted, they didn't need to do it each time but unless the brahmin knew beforehand which plants and which roots, maybe he should have told them. This wise brahmin seems pretty stupid.
So this is quite an odd collection of stories.
The non-Thai people seem to be characterized as not the smartest here. And in the case of the other story about the granny with the long pubic hair... ok, so she ripped it off with part of her pussy, and that stuck to the fence... how could one confuse that for the eye of a cow? And why didn't she just cut her pubic hair?
And when you reach the meditation level of jhana you can fly through the air, go through walls, become invisible, read other people's mind and get what you want by thinking about it... and that can be broken by touching a woman's breast. Funny how so many superpowers can be taken away so easily.
But why is this story about the blind guy funny? Is it supposed to be because he didn't acknowledge that he was blind?
And how where the monkeys in one story supposed to know which roots were long and which short without taking the plants out? Granted, they didn't need to do it each time but unless the brahmin knew beforehand which plants and which roots, maybe he should have told them. This wise brahmin seems pretty stupid.
So this is quite an odd collection of stories.
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