Tim Sharky, and Other Dark Goings On

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of stumbling across Tim Sharky, he is essentially a middle aged  sex tourist from New Zealand currently living it up in Thailand. He's also become a bit of an internet sensation over the last few months. This success of his is mostly due to the boyish, carefree chronicles of his sexual exploits in south East Asia - to be found on his Facebook page. 

Though aside from gentlemanly innuendos about what he did to the Thailand's female population and many, many photos of his huge frame looming over petite young women; we're also treated to sage insights into day to day life in Thailand: "Such simple little creatures" he offers in reference to Thai women, "If you give these girls a brand new Louis Vuitton bag.. They will just go and swap it for a fresh coconut...lol...". 

Now, we've all seen a complete prick before and none of us should be too shocked that Tim Sharky exists... but unfortunately the man has four and a half thousand followers, God knows how many friends and a constant stream of comments from other creepy bastards offering hearty words of encouragement. Even though his current profile picture is him with, sorry, looming over, a fairly worried looking 4ft tall child. I'm no feminist by any means but i do shudder a bit when I realise that we live in a world where a gigantic, heavily tattooed sex tourist can become a hero of the masses. 

What really gets to me about Sharky is that he exudes an air of self-righteous superiority over the local Thai people and sort of champions himself as a man of the people. Though if I were to ask Sharky or his ilk how they'd feel if Thailand and New Zealand's roles were reversed I'd imagine they wouldn't be best pleased. If New Zealand happened to be the place with the underdeveloped economy and Thailand's wealthy middle-aged men were coming to its shores to use and abuse New Zealand's nubile young daughters. If, due to unavoidable economic pressures, 18 year old Kiwi children had to fuck depraved foreign men old enough to be their fathers - I'm sure Sharkey's attitude wouldn't be quite so boyish and carefree.

I'm sure the likes of Tim Sharky would turn around and inform me that they're injecting Thailand with cash, that they provide a valuable service, that the girl's like a big Western man... but to that I would have to reply with the 'come on' clause - come on lads.  Very few young girls would prefer to be having sex for money with an much older foreigner rather than having the type of life we'd wish for our own daughters.     


 I'm not saying that this is ever going to stop, or that in this today's Thailand these girls have many other options but to keep following this unfortunate course; but I do believe that we should avoid making a cult figure out of a man like Sharkey... he is a dark creature.