Book Description: The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, behaviors, identities, and attitudes. The authors of this in-depth study deal directly with the language of sex in Thailand in all its raw, sometimes humorous, and often derogatory immediacy. The registers of spoken Thai (phasa phut), the language of the … Read more
Book Description: A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A “tom” (from “tomboy”) refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner, or “dee” (from “lady”). The patterning of female same-sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs, coupled with … Read more
Book Description: Bizarre Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted road of tourist hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight zone where travellers become soldiers and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and film stars, sacred tortoises mate on the streets of a small town, and Fertility Goddesses are wooed with massive … Read more
Book Description: “From Thailand With Love” is a hard-hitting, street-tough novel about the trafficking of adolescent Asian girls for prostitution in the U. S. It is violent and sexy, endearing and sad, sometimes humorous and often gut-wrenching. The book offers thought-provoking commentary on a wide range of issues: global economics, modern media, child labor, and … Read more
Book Description: Men have been coming to Thailand for many years now to enjoy the infamous night-life of cities like Pattaya, Bangkok and Phuket and to experience the girls that work in the thousands of bars around them. Some have found out to their cost that there are devils amongst the young women that ply … Read more
Book Description: John Triggerfish lost everything and decided to start a new life in paradise. It didn’t quite work out that way, although the ladyboys were pretty interesting. This is his story about becoming a Padi diving professional and meeting all manner of characters on his travels around the wonderful Kingdom of Thailand. Then of … Read more
Book Description: The significance of travel and tourism in relation to the international epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections has been widely recognized for many years. With the appearance of AIDS/HIV, a new impetus has been given to research in this field and to the consideration of practical preventative initiatives targeting international travellers. Considerable attention has … Read more
Book Description: As a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1970s, the author met and fell in love with a Thai woman named Orawan. Torn between love of country and the man she loved, Orawan risked all-life, liberty, and personal happiness-for the betterment of her country. These fifty-one poems pay tribute to her courage, her character, … Read more
Book Description: Auf der Suche nach Sex, Abenteuer und dem neuesten Kick, irrt der Held der Geschichte, orientierungslos durch die Bar und Inselwelt Südthailands, um sich am Ende selbst zu verlieren. Der Leser erfährt die ungeschminkte Wahrheit über die wirklichen Gegebenheiten in Thailand. Das Buch räumt auf mit Vorurteilen und Klischees, die durch die deutsche … Read more
Book Description: Explore the complex relationship between tourism and intimacy in this new book with a worldwide perspective! With a unique combination of academic and personal accounts, Sex and Tourism: Journeys of Romance, Love, and Lust takes you behind the scenes with motel owners, adventure travel guides, backpackers, and others working on all sides of … Read more