Book Description: This engaging and vivid book investigates the course of the HIV epidemic in seven countries of South East Asia: Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province. Emphasising the impact of the cultural and political landscapes of these countries on the progress of the disease, the book is the product of … Read more
Book Description: A true story Transcending into womanhood in Phuket, Thailand Everyone sees what you appear to be… Few people experience what you really are… Because of the way we look… And because of the way society sees us…
Book Description: When Peter Kannell, previously a month a year annual pilgrim to the tourist sex trade in Thailand, is forced back to England through lack of funds, he returns a defeated, sad and destitute man, He leaves Muay, his Thai partner, hurt and confused, not fully understanding the reasons for his departure, made to … Read more
Book Description: Peter Kannell has returned to Thailand and set about starting a new life for himself and his beautiful Thai partner Muay. Along the way he meets up with friends and Ladies of the Night he met when running a Girly Bar in Pattaya. Problems develop and opportunities present themselves, to be dealt with … Read more
Book Description: During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s were a particularly dynamic period of social and cultural transformation that had a profound impact on the development of Thai modernity. … Read more
Book Description: Charlie works for a San Francisco money management outfit that’s got billion dollar accounts and a penthouse suite, but he’s nowhere near the top. Long hours, big egos, and a skimpy entry level wage… It’s him against the big shots who want to keep him down so they can climb the company ladder. … Read more
Book Description: Fah, a twenty-two year-old farm girl from Thailand’s rural northeast has moved to Pattaya City to do the one thing that has any hope of bringing her decent money – work in the sex trade. Her goal: land a well to do foreigner who can deliver her and her family from a subsistence … Read more
Book Description: Commercial sex is the occupation of a significant portion of the women of the world, providing economic support for millions of people and their families. Working at the Bar is the first-ever, long-term, longitudinal, in-depth study of a large sex work industry—and Thailand, the most prominent nation in the rapidly growing sex tourism … Read more
Book Description: This updated version of Jeremy Seabrook’s highly acclaimed book Travels in the Skin Trade contains a new preface, highlighting the current issues surrounding sex tourism in Thailand. Press coverage of the sex trade routinely consists of ill-informed, moralising and sensationalist denunciations of the “industry”. Through the words of sex workers and their clients, … Read more
Book Description: Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. Bangkok’s brothels have become international icons of Third World women’s exploitation in the global sex trade. Recently, however, sex workers have begun to demand not pity, but rights as workers in the global economy. This book explores how prostitution policy is … Read more