An anonymous reader wrote, "Faithful blog readers are curious to learn about the Cambodian dating scene for giant white foreigners. Please indulge." As I am a man of the people, I will indulge.

the dating scene here is essentially split - you have the barong (foreigner) dating scene and the khmer-barong dating scene.

the khmer-barong dating scene is less of a dating scene and more of a "business" scene. 90% of all "massage" parlors, 99% of all Kareoke bars and literally hundreds of "girly bars" offer more than just massages, kareoke or drinks. Usually $5-$500 will get you all sorts of dates, depending on the establishment, the girl and the type of date a barong is looking for. Moto drivers will often say "bong chom s'rei s'ah?" which means, "do you want a beautiful girl?" if you say yes, they'll take you to one of the aforementioned establishments and they'll get a cut of the money. The odd thing is that most of the dating women are vietnamese or of vietnamese descent. Khmers don't really think that khmers are pretty - they have an interesting concept of beauty. so that's generally the dating scene. it's easy, very user friendly and being a serial dater is encouraged. sometimes however, these dates stretch into the morning and even beyond. some in fact "find true love," but the motto of the khmer-barong dating scene remains - "no money, no honey."

actually funny story. i joined a rugby team here and we had a big tournament about 3 weeks ago. teams from vietnam, thailand, singapore and even dubai came into town. the tournament was sponsored by a few girly bars and so at about 2:00pm one of the bars brought in a bus full of girls. the girls were all no taller than 5'1" and ran over to all the enormous disgusting rugby players and started massaging them, toweling them down, etc. there's really nothing like a 5' 100lbs girl who looks no older than 19, trying to hug a 6'3" man who wieghs 250 lbs thanks to booze. her arms generally wouldn't fit around his legs, let alone his torso. after the tourney, the rugby players bombarded the girly bars.

the barong-barong dating scene in phnom penh is a free-for-all. to fully understand it, you have to know a few premises of this city. first, 95% of the people come here for fun and because they have few, if any, attachments to the real world. second, most of the people here work for ngo's or other semi-volunteer jobs, so most of the barong are pretty young. third, there is very little to do in phnom penh except drink and hangout. and fourth, the girls outnumber the guys here. combine these three principles together and you've got a recipe for an orgy to end all orgies.

so dating here really doesn't exist too much. it's a lot of hooking up, then hooking up with someone, then hooking up with someone else and repeat. some people date people for a while, and then they usually end up hooking up with their ex's friend. its quite funny, yet awesome. the only bad part of barong-barong dating is that phnom penh is really small so rumors fly around faster than they do at boarding schools. for example, according to the word on the street, a friend of mine had 5 girlfriends at the same time. his response was "i fucking wish, but really i've only been able to pull off 3 girlfriends here at a time - but one was just a tourist."