Well I don't know if it's changed much, but after my second trip, it wasn't even necessary to hit the bars or clubs to get girls. It was the easiest thing in the world to pick up civilian girls, all you had to do was know a few words of Thai and be discreet. Discretion was really the key, because any Thai girl seen with a falang was immediately looked down on by "good" Thais. So you have a situation where almost every cute girl would love to be spoiled and taken shopping, but none want to be caught. It was fun as hell and I developed a great knack for picking up girls in venues where interaction gave you lots of opportunities to talk her to dinner etc. My absolute favourite source of girls was an Optical chain called Top Charoen. Sounds funny I know, but they made a point of staffing their stores with young beautiful girls in white lab coats. I still get a hard on when I think of hunting in those places.