well, we should be carefull not to generalize Alchemist,
I have also seen a few old men with young Filipino women, but those Thai and Filipino women are poor so they married old men just for the money. But not all Thai and Filipino women are poor....
The Thai and Filipino women of high quality (who are not poor) however are very selective of whom they date and sleep with. And as I stated in my Thailand trip report they do care about social status and not going gaga just after 'energy' (saying that some women from a different part of the world only want 'energy' is the biggest Hooey ever
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Now there is also the physical factor:
Thai and Filipino women are in general attracted to western men because western men look different from the locals and being from the white race is considered high social status in their eyes (for some reason in which I don't understand....)
I agree, finally.
So there are surely couples together for money and the man is fooled, but many relationships are strong and made out of love.
We cannot generalize.