Paultain - The Monger who wrote A Book

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Irish monger Paultain (1957?-2015) was a familiar name and face to many ladyboy mongers from the early days of online ladyboy boards and he was also a self-published author of a book called “The Paultain Experience” (2009) about living and mongering in Asia (mostly Thailand).  Over the years, several BMs nominated him for the Romscars Hall of Legends, and many more were left wondering why he was not picked.  My reason not to give him early priority was that although the book covers a fair amount of ladyboy action over the years, most of it was GG action, plus some of that action may be fictionalized as separately discussed here in the Board (http://www.ladyboyreview.com/index.php?/topic/10174-my-book-review-of-the-paultain-book-and-some-personal-reflections-it-triggered/).

But the important FACTS are that (1) Paultain did publish a mongering book with ladyboy coverage, which to date no other ladyboy monger has done; and (2) through his death in 2015, he was a high profile member of our sissies-chasing community, having garnered both fans and non-fans.  For those 2 reasons alone, and given the fact that even if the book exaggerates it’s of no harm to anyone, this year (2022) Paultain finally takes his earned place in the Romscars Hall of Legends, something I think he would have appreciated in line with the effort he made in his book to cast himself as the ultimate mongering machine.

According to himself, Paultain started mongering in Asia in his 20s while on R&Rs from Saudi Arabia, then moved to BKK where he had a bar in Nana Plaza, then another in soi 2 Pattaya that he ran with a Thai GG he married, then they had an Irish restaurant on soi Yamato in connection to which Paultain was thrown in the Pattaya monkey-house for a few weeks.  Sometime in the 1990s he moved to Holland with the wife who once there stabbed him on that major leg artery and eventually they divorced.  AGAIN: all this is according to Paultain's book that does not include a single picture of any of these stages of his life.

What we have evidence for is that Paultain would return to Thailand on annual sex vacations during the 2000s because that’s when the ladyboy boards started hearing about him as he would post actively and meet in Pattaya many of the BMs.  He wrote some good TRs with pics (including of himself) such as the one he posted here at LBR where we can remember him at his ladyboy-scoring best:

http://www.ladyboyreview.com/index.php?/topic/297-paultain-2007-2010/

From what I gathered from the book, Paultain was attracted to ladyboys the moment he saw one in Manila but over the next 3 decades spent the vast majority of his mongering time and cash with Thai GGs.  Only towards the end of his life, did he report bonding with ladyboys for longer periods, much as he had been doing with the GGs for most of the book.

Well done Paultain and Welcome to the Romscars Hall of Legends.

Thanks for the memories and Rest In Peace.

Rom