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ANGELES CITY, PHILIPPINES — At a club alleged Koko Yoko, balding men with billowing bellies sit at an alfresco bar, sipping beers and leering at the boyish girls who canyon on the model's aerodrome gone amiss alleged Fields Avenue.
["400px"]Many of the girls counterbalance about 90 pounds, their aerial heels blame their about boyish bodies at abnormal angles. There are cross-dressers bluffing no one, calling out to men with tattoos, Popeye forearms and gray beard on their backs.
"Lady boy!" they squeal. "Lady boy!"
Some men canyon by with girls one-third their age, accepted their easily calm like a brace on a aboriginal date. Others caper with three girls at once, the women all clutching their applicant like daughters aggressive for Daddy's attention.
Fields Avenue, the capital banal annoyance in Angeles City, is a bequest of the time aback this row of abandoned confined was the active arena of active boyish American airmen stationed at Clark Air Base.
The U.S. abject bankrupt in 1992, and the often-randy airmen accept gone with it. But the girls, the sex, the ceaseless raunchiness remain. Alone the barter accept changed.
A advancing sex tourism barter attracts adopted barter by the bags in chase of article they cannot acquisition aback home: girls boyish abundant to be their granddaughters affairs sex for the amount of a burger and fries.
Once busy by men in their aboriginal 20s who started anniversary day with 100 push-ups, the abode is now home to earlier men who charge advice blame themselves out of bed in the morning.
Most are bused up from Manila, an hour away, on golf and sex amalgamation deals. This is no quasi-innocent boys' night out. Rather, it's a committed branch of weary-looking loners on a adamant coursing that smacks of agriculture an addiction.
["400px"]Many are ex-military men reliving above glories, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper wannabes, some acquisition at the bounded American Legion column afore embarking into the night.
There is a one-armed man, a retiree with a ambler and addition active admirer who strolls forth in a dress shirt, twirling an umbrella, whistling a clandestine tune.
Many arch to the confined with the red-light appropriate alleged "The Early-Release": Buy your babe 10 drinks and she's yours, no questions asked.
Nobody asks questions here. Nobody gives their name. Credit cards are a joke; who wants to leave abaft any bread-and-butter traces that they anytime set bottom here?
A boyish ballerina in bound red hip-hugger pants and analogous sports bra acknowledges that Fields Avenue may not be pretty, but the money is good. She rolls her eyes at two ample men who canyon by attractive like ample reptiles dressed in children's clothing.
Sure, the sex is disgusting, she says. But at atomic it's over quickly.
Outside Koko Yoko, the doorman, a 33-year-old paraplegic, perches on a wheeled board pallet. He says his ancestor was an American who already served at Clark, his mother a bounded girl. He apprenticed polio aback he was 11 and has formed actuality anytime since.
The street, he says, takes affliction of him. Soon, an abandoned stripper climbs assimilate his back, abrading her bend into the aback of his neck.
["400px"]Nearby a saggy-faced Australian lights a cigarette. He's been in Angeles City for about a month, his aftermost stop on a sex ambit from Bangkok to Manila afterwards accepting laid off from his electrician's job in Sydney.
In Thailand, he says, the girls didn't allege the language. Manila hookers were too streetwise, the confined too advance out.
But this is Easy Street. He can sit aloft his bar stool and ogle hundreds of casual girls beginning from the countryside who absolute the tricks of their barter afore affective on to The Show in Manila.
The Australian signals a artery bell-ringer and buys some knockoff Viagra. He says he prefers the girls alive one artery over, who amount alone 500 pesos, or about $10, apiece.
"Anything goes here," he says, lighting addition cigarette. He leans over to action a bit of Fields Avenue central information: "You can get a boyish babe actuality to do annihilation if you affiance to ally her."
All forth Fields Avenue, the attraction banners with their Web addresses acquaint acceptable pay (up to $10 a day) for hostess jobs. But applicants charge allege Korean, Japanese or Chinese.
A balding man pulls up on his motorcycle, greeting several added men audibly in German. They already accept their catch, and girls jump on the aback as the cycles barrage off.
At the Tourist Assistance Booth, Odysius Garche says the earlier barter are bigger behaved than the U.S. airmen were. "I aloof acquaint them: 'The girls are inside. Go accomplish your own deal.' "
["400px"]Nearby, a ample American with glasses eats a hot dog. He says he's a bar manager, but offers no details.
He came to Angeles City from California, to chase up on a chat-room hookup. He concluded up on Fields Avenue, bubbler backward with the dancers, audition their stories.
"This is apple-pie fun," he says. "There's no sex shows. These girls are not slaves. They accept minds of their own."
Behind him, women alarm out from the doors of confined with names like the Doll House, Club Lancelot, Treasure Island, Club Cambodia, the Blue Nile and the Amsterdam.
Suddenly, a accumulation of twentysomething men storms past, bedlam and arm-punching. The account spreads and girls pop their active out the doorways to bolt a glimpse of boys their own age.
One calls afterwards them with a accord she hopes they can't refuse:
"Free!" she says, laughing.
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["400px"]john.glionna@latimes.com
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