{"id":190,"date":"2006-08-13T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T10:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-08-13T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T11:02:26","slug":"the-myth-of-russian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/190\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Russian Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sakhalin Island may be a frozen wasteland without much entertainment laid on, but the letters page of The Sakhalin Times<\/a><\/em> seems lively enough (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Men are men wherever they are in the world and Russia definitely does have an unfair proportion of beautiful woman. However the “concerned Sakhaliner” should visit nightspots such as 777 where (I suspect) “she” will find large number of young, predatory girls eager to find a foreign boyfriend to improve their lives either on a temporary or even permanent basis. Predatory tactics include jumping into bed with “old foreigners” without much hesitation so it\u2019s no wonder that there is indeed a significant group of foreign men who will take advantage of opportunity. If the “concerned Sakhaliner” has ever met any US or British wives, then the attraction should be obvious<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch!\u00a0 I hope for his sake his wife doesn’t read the local paper, or at least is not from the US or UK.<\/p>\n

Me, I think it’s all rather sad.\u00a0 For a start, the presence of\u00a0beautiful young Russian girls eager to leap into bed with a foreigner is exaggerated massively.\u00a0 I heard stories of how in Yalta all you needed to do was\u00a0flash your British passport and stunning women\u00a0just throw themselves at your feet, begging to be\u00a0dragged\u00a0to your room\u00a0and ravaged.\u00a0 When I went there for myself, I was somewhat disappointed but not altogether surprised to find that the only women who would be remotely interested in\u00a0such activities\u00a0were a handful of ropey old tarts who wore cheap clothes and too much makeup.\u00a0 Far from throwing themselves on\u00a0foreigners, their sales pitch consisted of sitting round a table drinking heavily, chain smoking, and scowling at passers-by.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moscow and\u00a0St. Petersburg are the same.\u00a0 Tales abound of men arriving in a hotel to find themselves\u00a0within five minutes\u00a0being greeted\u00a0in their room by a\u00a0beautiful blonde who\u00a0does whatever\u00a0she is asked.\u00a0 And these tales are probably true, only the\u00a0storyteller leaves out the annoying facts that he had to pay her a hundred bucks, she didn’t do half what\u00a0he wanted her to, and she wasn’t as good looking as any of a random selection of girls riding the metro.\u00a0 I suppose it is possible, after a week or so of relentless purchasing of gifts and promises of marriage, for a visiting foreigner to persuade an ordinary Russian to sleep with him, but this is\u00a0going to be pretty rare and in all likelihood he will\u00a0find himself after a few days with a monster\u00a0headache, an empty wallet, and the girl in question running rings around him.\u00a0 Just recently, I caused a look of awful disappointment when I informed an Arab gentleman that if he went to Russia looking to find a nice woman to keep him entertained for the week he was going to have to put his hand in his pocket, and it won’t be cheap.\u00a0 He genuinely thought that women in Moscow would be falling over themselves to sleep with him.\u00a0 Who tells them this crap?\u00a0 It’s easier to draw blood from a stone than to get a Muscovite woman to do what you want.<\/p>\n

Things might be different in Sakhalin, though.\u00a0 Certainly, almost all the Russian working girls one encounters in Dubai are from the provinces, usually some village in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0 Not that they’ll admit this.\u00a0 They’ll tell you they’re from a place “near to Moscow”, which turns out to be Ufa.\u00a0 Having spent a fair bit of time in both Moscow and St. Petersburg, I never saw more than a handful of prostitutes, and they were\u00a0standing in the street as\u00a0opposed to hanging around the hotel lobbies.\u00a0\u00a0Now, I’m sure you could go to a few dodgy bars\u00a0or expat haunts and find a\u00a0working girl or two, but for the large part – at least from where I was standing – they\u00a0are invisible.\u00a0 But Sakhalin being a pretty grim place by all accounts, the girls there might well be looking for a way out using a foreigner with not much hair but a lot of cash.\u00a0 Not that this will be an easy ride, if you excuse the pun.\u00a0 Any foreigner thinking he can go to a club and get involved with such a girl and emerge unscathed is going to get a nasty shock.<\/p>\n

Take the chap writing the letter above, for instance.\u00a0 He says that the girls will jump into bed without hesitation, but in the course of fumbling with his buttons and taking off his spotty boxers his head is filled only with excitement about shagging somebody his daughter’s age, and hence he has missed the significance of the preceding conversation in which the girl has committed this chap to providing a lot more than a minute and a half of\u00a0limp action.\u00a0 In short, he’s got sucked into something which he is going to struggle to get out of without causing an awful lot of distress and aggravation to himself.\u00a0 Give him a month living with a girl like this, and he’ll be wishing he could rid himself of this stroppy little siren and crawl back under the Paisley\u00a0bedspread with his now ex-wife who, although having lost her looks fifteen years back, at least behaved in a manner which betrayed a sense of reason, sincerity, and respect.\u00a0 But by then it’s normally too late, and she’s fucked off with the house and kids.\u00a0 Must be bags of fun that, having your kids grow up knowing that you ditched their Ma for some\u00a0tart from\u00a0a club on Sakhalin Island.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I seem to have been rambling somewhat.\u00a0 What was my point?\u00a0 Ah, that’s right.\u00a0 It’s about the last line in the excerpted passage above:<\/p>\n

If the “concerned Sakhaliner” has ever met any US or British wives, then the attraction should be obvious.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, there are Russian women out there who – for some – do stack up favourably when compared to western women, although I would seriously guard against making such comparisons.\u00a0 And in my case, the attraction of one particular Russian is indeed obvious.\u00a0 But one thing is certain:\u00a0you aren’t going to meet such women hanging around dodgy bars in Sakhalin, and they sure as hell aren’t going to be leaping into bed without hesitation with\u00a0anybody, foreigner or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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