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“For newcomers to Thai culture [Sex Talk] provides some interesting background information; for those more versed in Thai it is a handy guide to the amorous idiom.” —Bangkok Post Hi, welcome to thaisextalk.com . Are you in love or seeking love with a Thai? Are you a Thai person with a foreign lover or foreign friends? Are you simply curious about what how Thais think and talk about love and sex? Are you interested in learning more about Thai people and culture and Thai language? If you answer “Yes” to any of these questions, you are in the right place.

These days more and more cross-cultural romances are blossoming. This is wonderful, of course, but it also poses new challenges to romance. It is hard enough making a go of it within one’s own culture. Looking for love outside one’s familiar home front often means dealing with additional intricacies of a foreign language, unfamiliar customs and sometimes way of thinking.

This website is created to help bridge the gap of cultural understanding about love and romance—between Thais and lovers and friends of Thais.

Many of us believe that love is blind. It sounds so romantic. Indeed love can make you blind about race, culture and national borders. It doesn’t matter where your sweetheart comes from or whether you understand only a few words that come out of your lover’s mouth. All love ever needs is that indefinable spark and a body language. Or doest it?

Certainly, when attraction is strong or the pheromones are surging, nothing in the world matters. But usually after that initial stage of attraction has waned and the real world sets in, there are many things that begin to matter—that is, if the couple wants to go for the long haul.

There are many cases of successful cross-cultural love affairs, but cases of cross-cultural heartache and heartache are also many. I don’t believe that men are from Mars and women from Venus. But in cross-cultural relationships, lovers may sometimes find themselves thinking just that.

Lack of understanding of the other’s language and culture can be frustrating. And sometimes, even without language barriers, different cultural perspectives may clash. Anyone having ever been in this situation can appreciate that.

So, what does sextalk propose to do? And why is it called sextalk, not love talk? … Well, you’d just have to read more to find out.

• Find out what sextalk is.
• Check out the 1st sextalk book, Sex Talk: In Search of Love and Romance
• Check out my blog for sextalk vocabulary, discussion and updates.

I hope you will enjoy this site or at least get something out of it. sextalk is an ongoing project. Although the first book has already been published and now available, this website is designed not only as a companion of the book, but also as a space for Thais and friends of Thai people to share views about romance and relationships.

Join me on the discussion. Visit my blog and leave your comments. If you are interested in writing and article for this site or becoming a regular guest blogger, please email me (You can write in English or in Thai, and I will do the translation as necessary.)

Thanks for stopping by.

Ciao.

Kaewmala
Bangkok, Thailand

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