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1 Peso: The
Philippine currency. The Peso is unsteady and throughout 1999, fluctuated
between 37 and 39 pesos per US dollar.
2 Cherry: virgin, a person (male or female) who has not yet experienced
sexual intercourse (the insertion of a penis into her vagina).
3 Boom Boom: A very commonly used phrase among the bar girls for
sexual intercourse. "Go back to my room and boom, boom, boom."
4 Bar Fine: A price paid to the bar to allow a bar girl to immediately
leave the bar and go spend the night with the customer. Sex is assumed,
but not guaranteed.
5 Short Time: In the short-time hotels, you rent a room for three
hours. In the short-time brothels, an hour or so of sex. This is the opposite
of bar fine, which is "long time" or all night.
6 Butterfly: A derogatory term used by the bar girls to describe
a person who likes to have sex with many partners. If your girlfriend thinks
you are having sex with another girl, she will accuse you of being a butterfly.
Oddly, if you tell her she's also a butterfly since she sleeps with many
customers, she'll justify her actions on the grounds that, "It's my job."
7 Mamasan: A female bar manager who pimps out the bar girls and
is responsible for keeping good relations with the customers. The mamasan
makes around 150 pesos a day (depending on the bar) and usually gets about
a 50-peso commission for each girl who is bar-fined.
8 Ladies' drink. Usually costs about $2.40 and allows a bar girl
to sit with the customer to chat and cuddle. Most bars will not let the
girls sit with a customer unless he buys her a ladies' drink. |
