Tonight in a moment of madness, I suggested visiting Orchard Towers to Patrick, who I was out with. After some laughter and apprehension, we went inside.

For those not in the know, Orchard Towers is famous for its 'four floors of whores' and at 9 pm-ish on a Friday night, things were just getting started as we entered. In short it was literally a condensed 'higher class' (if ever such a term could be used to describe the ladies of the night we saw) version of Geylang and the women there were mainly Thai.

Right at the entrance there was a person sitting on a wheelchair selling roses, presumably profiting from some customer anxious to please his escort for the night, looking decidedly out of place and absurd there; but then again so did we, two teenagers wandering around the seediest place in Orchard Road.

There were many women there, wearing all manner of low cut, revealing clothes, walking like they owned the place (a catwalk style of walking), tossing their long hair all over. Some gathered in groups near the entrance of bars, speaking in their native tongue, while others walked about confidently, looking for possible patrons. One had peroxide blond bleached hair, was really tall and wore a short skirt and tight top. According to Patrick, 'her' voice was lower than his. However they all had one common denominator, they were all not good looking.

I am hardly a paragon of beauty, yet goodness! They didn't look that bad to be fair, just average normal, borderline ugly, not gorgeous babes at all. You could see some of their saggy boobs protruding from their low tops and some had no boobs. Pleasant stuff.

They were foreigners, in a foreign land where they are ill regarded by the populace because of their jobs. They sell themselves at bargain prices to men who have little care or concern for them, who invade their most private places nightly. Because of their jobs, they will possibly never find love and at the end of day wind up with some form of STDs which will affect them for the rest of their lives.

Is it supply that produces demand, or demand that results in supply?