Know your Thai ladyboys: Interview with veteran ladyboy photographer, Captain Outrageous [I Heart Kink]

You may have heard rumors on the Internets of the existence of pictures of Thai male to female transsexuals, or ladyboys as they’re sometimes known, but you may be utterly shocked to find out that there are plenty of people out there that make good money as ladyboy photographers.  One photographer, known as Captain Outrageous stands head and shoulders over others.

Fortunately for all of us, blogger Seymour Totti managed to sit down with the Captain and ask about ladyboys, the history of the transsexual community in Thailand and how many boob jobs he’s personally funded.

Captain, how many boob jobs do you think you’ve sponsored over the years?
Three and a half! In each case I have paid up for someone I cared about. In one case there was a distinct possibility that the ladyboy in question would have been passed A1 for drafting into the military. Up to 10 percent of 18-year-old Thai youths are selected each year for two years’ military service.

She was terrified at the possibility, and nearly fainted with happiness when I offered her the boob job. Extreme feminacy is about the only way out of being drafted ‘ the army isn’t big on troops with tits. The half, by the way, was for a ladyboy who only had 50 percent of the cost of the operation. I told her she would look silly with one tit, so I gave her the balance as a birthday present.

You’ve been involved in the ladyboy scene in Asia longer than most, long before there was any such thing as the internet. How did it begin for you?
I was a young journalist on my first ever trip to the Far East, to Singapore. I was with a small group of other people, and we were met at the airport and taken out for the night. We went to Newton Circus for some hawker food, and then one of the local people suggested a visit to Bugis Street. None of us had heard of the place or its reputation, but anywhere that sounded like Boogie Street had to be fun.

We arrived and sat at a small table. The place was packed. I was tired, drunk and jet-lagged after the 14-hour flight. Probably the best state to be in to witness what came next, for at about midnight, out of the shadows and the sidestreets, came these gorgeous creatures. They looked to me like delicious oriental girls, and there seemed to be an endless number of them.

If there were women seated at the tables, they would pose for photographs. Where there were only men, they would sit down and whisper in your ear such dirty things! I had no interest in men, and in fact I was married. But I felt hot with excitement, the kind of rush you feel when you are an adolescent getting to know girls for the first time. I didn’t really understand what they were, but I knew that I desperately wanted to find out.

Did you already know at this time that Thailand had a large ladyboy population?
No, I had no idea. I had never been to Thailand. And when I did make my first trips, soon after my first visit to Singapore, I glutted on the genetic girls. It took me a while to find the ladyboys. But when I did, of course, I became a helpless addict.

That’s just a tiny, tiny bit.  Read the whole thing here.  Some possibly NSFW ads (though no ladyboy dick), but it’s a fascinating cultural read.