Thailand ping pong shows

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I will never look at a ping pong ball the same way again...

Last night I spent some time with a friend who will soon be returning to China to continue her time with the Peace Corps. Since she has been gone she has shared several stories about her journey in China. Well, last night when we were eating a meal together she shared a particular story that had me at a loss for words....initially..

She mentioned when she went traveling to Thailand she discovered the infamous ping pong shows that occur as a stable of tourism. Have any of you heard of this? It was brand new information for me.

Apparently, the show consists of women using their pelvic muscles pop out ping pong balls. Tourists then are able to hit the ball with a paddle. The woman performing this act will continue to insert ping pong balls for the customer to hit.

According to Wikipedia the female performers will also hold objects such as a long string, whistles, pens, cigarettes, candles, darts, razor blades and chopsticks. Some women even shoot goldfish into a bowl, or stuff a large frog inside her to see how long she can keep it inside her vagina.

And I thought strip clubs were bad! Despite the fact that some women claim to enjoy stripping, I think that the act of selling oneself is a humiliating and of course degrading act. I wonder if the many of the same women who choose to strip would feel comfortable holding objects in their vaginas.

Perhaps a ping pong show would be going too far for some women. But is it not in the same vein as stripping? I think it is.

Anyone up for a game of real ping pong?