When I was in Thailand, stationed there for about 45 days with the Army for Operation Cobra Gold, a yearly training exercise which I attended way back in 1997 when I was just 21. They had a financial collapse known as the Asian financial crisis where it went from 6 Thai Bhayt to the dollar to 38 Thai bhayt to the dollar. Cash was king and as I was paying in dollars everything was great. I was getting my regular salary as a e5 plus $125 a day in per diem and we would go out to a restaurant where eight of use would eat and the total bill would be $32.
Women knew if you were a foreigner and had the money to get there then you simple must be rich. As such all manner of women would simply throw themselves at you and 21 year old me was in heaven. We are talking sex with two women a day on some days and we aren't talking hookers. Just regular young women. It was amazing how easy it was to just ask them out, go for lunch or dinners, have a few drinks, then you were jizzing inside them within the hour. There were also hookers and I won't pretend to be pure, I was a 21 year old male after all, but the regular girls was where it was at.
It was a wonderful time to be an American in Thailand.