Considered attactive = considered rich enough to betabuxx.
When it's casual, you take them to dinners and for drinks in venues they have deals with and get a cut from.
When it becomes a serious relationship, Thai girls suddenly all have sick parents and always need money from their foreigner boyfriends.
That's why it's mostly Americans who get girls in SEA and not like Bulgarians or Moldovans.
SEAmaxxin = prostitution, but white dudes go for it because it's presented in a way to allow them to cope that they're attractive to someone.
Still it's cheap sex so it's not all bad. Just don't fool yourself into thinking you're somehow magically attractive to Asian girls from Thailand or the Philippines, but not South Korea ($), Japan($$) or Singapore($$$).