We will here give a comparison of mostly practical aspects for Western men who are new to seeking sexual relationships in Asia. Details on pursuing sexual adventures are reserved for members.

IMMIGRATION
Easiest in Thailand (one can stay for years on tourist visas; just has to cross the border for a few minutes every few months); also easy for the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia; hardest for Indonesia (you can enter on a tourist visa only for up to four months per year, otherwise you will be suspected of illegal activities). You cannot stay permanently on tourist visa in Indonesia, Myanmar, China, Laos, and Singapore.

APARTMENTS, HOUSES
Cheapest, and best selection in Thailand. Also easy in the Philippines, but the selection is by far not as good as in Thailand. Expect to pay double the Thai price in Cambodia and Laos; three to four times as much in Malaysia and Indonesia; eight times the Thai price in Singapore. In China and Vietnam, you officially have to request permission from the authorities before renting a place. In Indonesia, rents normally have to be paid for two years in advance, so those who come on a tourist visa for sexual adventures have no alternative but to stay in hotels (expensive, often not very clean).

BUYING PROPERTY
By far the easiest in Malaysia; second on the ease scale is Singapore. With tricks in Thailand and the Philippines.

FOOD
Best and cheapest in Malaysia. Singapore is the same quality but double the price. Local food is the worst in Cambodia. Thailand is cheap, but the cuisine is overrated. Be careful in China as restaurants use enormous quantities of monosodium glutamate, as well as many fermented ingredients of undefined composition. Chinese supermarket food has been shown to contain formalin (used in the preservation of dead bodies). In Laos it's the easiest to live on European meals. Indonesia may have good cuisine in expensive restaurants, but what you normally find isn't anything special, and double the Malaysian and Thai prices.

SAFETY
Excellent in Singapore (and Japan); also nothing to worry in Thailand. OK in Malaysia; worse in Indonesia (possible political violence) and the Philippines (crimes) and China (the city of Guangzhou was forced to impose a city-wide ban on all motorcycles because of robber gangs who would even hack off people's arms to get at wristwatches); miserable in Cambodia (you should not walk around after dark in Phnom Penh; locals in any city in Cambodia barricade themselves before 8 in the evening).

HEALTH MATTERS
A perfect score for Singapore. Sexual hygiene is also good in Thailand. Not quite as good in the Philippines. By far the highest AIDS prevalence in Cambodia.

SEXUAL LAWS
In Malaysia, being caught with a Malay girl in a room alone means either instant marriage or jail. In Vietnam and Laos, one cannot check into a hotel room with a female without showing a marriage certificate. In Cambodia, the police do surprise raids on those who have taken a girl into a room or back home to check whether she is 18. No problems in the Philippines as long as the female is over 18. In Thailand, the age of sexual consent is 15, but for working in a place of prostitution, it is 18. In Indonesia, a woman of any age can report a man to the police for having had sex with her, and then not being willing to marry her (rape by means of deceit). China. Like Japan, officially has a rather low national age of consent, but local governments can, and frequently do, set the age much higher (up to 22); be aware that China also is prone to arbitrary definitions of sexual crimes.

AVAILABILITY OF NON-PROSTITUTES
Best in Thailand (if you know how to go about it; see the member information). OK in the Philippines if you are willing to invest into a romance.

While the "sexual opportunities" member section provides Machiavellian advice on how and where to have the most and the best sexual relationships in Asia, the site is neither pornographic, nor a prostitution guide.

“Machiavellian” in this contest means honest. Honest to the extent that we analyze the situation in a materialistic, down-to-earth, manner, not afraid to state things which to express is politically not correct.

To advise that Phnom Penh is an easy destination for Western men who seek sexual relationships with local women because the country is so poor and the women are generally willing to exchange sexual services, or general love, for economic support, may be politically not correct. And so is the advice given to older men of Western European or North American origin, that if you cannot have a young girlfriend where you currently live, you can always go to Cambodia.

Whether the options are politically correct or not is not the perspective that is applied in a Machiavellian analysis. The only perspective that counts in a Machiavellian analysis is whether a strategy is effective or not.

As evident from the articles published on my site SexualFront.com, I am in favor of improving societies of Western Europe and North America, so that the largest possible number of people has the best possible sexual experience. The “best possible sexual experience” means more sexual satisfaction from more sexual relationships with more people.

But in as much as the current conditions in Western Europe and North America may not be conducive to optimize one’s own sexual experience, it is legitimate to have an interest in other parts of the world where the current conditions are better suited.

The fact that I, or we, aim to improve the sexual conditions in the societies we hail from doesn’t mean that our primary interest in life wouldn’t be as much sexual satisfaction as we can manage in the world as it presents itself.

Asia's potential for truly rewarding sexual relationships is enormous, provided one avoids places that have been affected by too much tourism, commercial sex establishments, and the presence of pseudo-intellectuals who continue to view all Asians as tribal folks who need to be protected from the evils of modern Western ideas.

It is the primary aim of the "sexual opportunities" member section to provide some guidelines to Western visitors on how to go about it in various countries.

Asia is a fantastic sexual playing ground… for locals and even more so for Western visitors. Just take note of what TIME magazine in 2001 wrote on the topic:

"A continent of 3 billion human beings is getting sexy and kicking the guilt. You can thank satellite television and globalization, and don't forget to say a sincere hosanna to the Internet… There is, it seems, a chat room for anything and everyone. Spouses seeking greater satisfaction, singles who don't want to wait until marriage…"

"TIME has done … a survey on Asian sexual behavior. Thais like to be spanked-some 37% of men surveyed and 34% of women. Singaporean women initiate sex more than other Asian women. Virgins are an endangered Asian species almost everywhere except the Philippines, where 78% of the men say they want to marry one."

"In mainland China …, Shanghai radio sexologist Chen Kai-his business card features a pop-up penis-recently gave on-air advice to a housewife who wanted to know if it was safe to pleasure herself with a frozen cucumber. (Chen's tip: thaw it first.)"

"In backwater Phnom Penh, the ankle-length sarong is starting to get shorter, and sex educators say some 50% of high school boys are having sex with girlfriends, often in fast-sheet hotels charging $1 an hour…"

"I first had sex when I was 20," recalls Jiraporn Thepitak, a sexually active single woman in Bangkok. "When I go back to my home village, I see that girls are already having sex when they are 15 and 16. Before, everyone used to think sex was very important. Now they think it's for fun."

"Asia's sexual revolution is being driven by images from the West … and liberating new phenomena such as Internet chat rooms…"

"In South Korea, which has a seriously severe side, 32-year-old cyberstud Andy trolls the chat rooms to make assignations with single and married women. His success rate: about one a week. (Never on weekends, though, because that's when he meets, and sleeps with, his girlfriend.)"

This much from TIME magazine.

The “sexual opportunities" member section provides definite advice on successful mating strategies especially for Southeast Asia where I have been living (and hunting) for more than 25 years. Information for members is provided as articles as well as through personal consultation (by email), taking into account a member’s ethnic and educational background, as well as factors such as age, available time, and financial means. Obviously, no single mating strategy fits every man. However, practically every man can improve his sexual experience with the right advice.

Among many mammalian species, the dominant male, or alpha male, is the only one supposed to breed and have sexual intercourse. Lower-ranking males can occasionally sneak in and themselves gain access to females. But it's a forbidden act, and will likely be punished severely by the dominant male, if it comes to his attention. However, because even the most advanced species outside homo sapiens have no language or equivalent means to confer information, dominant males, as other members of any species other than homo sapiens, only know what they see themselves.

Human society isn't as extreme in structure as the societies of some species, in which only alpha males breed. But there is a typical tendency for alpha males to seek out as many sexual partners as possible, and genuine alpha males typically succeed to appropriate a much larger share of females than would be their "fair" allocation.

Human males who appropriate a disproportionate share of the females are nowadays not interested in making each of their conquests a permanent wife. The tendency is for a male to use a female a number of times, and then to discard her.

Therefore, in order to assess the degree of polygamous behavior of a certain man, we ought not to look at by how many females he is or has been bound into a permanent relationship at any given time, but solely at the number of different sexual partners he has ever had without getting married to.

For such a statistic, a one-night stand counts more than a lifelong exclusive relationship. It counts more because actually, in many human societies, it is easier to find a wife than a one-night stand (in all of the Middle East), and a man who marries is conceding much more than the one given permission for a single use.

A man who concedes to the conditions brought about by a marriage typically signs over to his wife much of his wealth and financial independence. Because this kind of behavior does require irrationality, there is, under ordinary circumstances, a high degree of reluctance on the part of men to be available for marriage. A marriage is a victory for the female partner, rather than a male conquest.

An alpha male, therefore, is defined as a man who gains access, or copulation rights, with as many women as possible, without allowing a woman the victory of becoming a man's wife.

Let's assume we have a group of 1000 men and 1000 women. Let's further assume that in this group, women have an average of 10 sexual partners during their life span. Of these, an average of 1.5 sexual relationships are with men who are their husbands. This then leaves an overall of 8500 sexual pairings to be counted in establishing our statistics.

My hypothesis is that some 50 men account for more than 5000 of these 8500 pairings.

Some men definitely are more popular with women than others. They are not just a bit more popular.

I assume that in any given society, some 80 percent of the women strive for just 5 percent of the men. But these 5 percent are chronically difficult to bind into permanent relationships, which is why most women, while being occasionally available to alpha males, also settle into permanent relationships with beta (just average and willing to marry) or gamma (below average, but willing to marry) specimens of the species.