Transnational Prostitution: Changing Patterns in a Global ContextSusanne Thorbek, Bandana Pattanaik Patterns of prostitution, like so much else in our increasingly inter-connected world, are changing radically, as the investigations in this volume dramatically show. The question of migrant prostitutes in the West may be much debated, but it is little researched. This collection makes a radical break with the current media focus on human trafficking and the old habit of simply blaming the victim. What emerges is a nuanced and empirically grounded portrait of the complexities of prostitution across national boundaries today. |
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... CUSTOMERS ' PERCEPTIONS OF THAI PROSTITUTES TODAY The male customers ' view of Thai prostitutes today has some simil- arities with the European modernist view around 1900. It is hard to find out exactly how much has changed , and I will ...
... customers that the availability of sexual satisfaction in Thailand is due to the poverty of the women involved and the relative wealth of the customers . The guide to the bar - scene expresses this quite clearly : ' You could never get ...
... customers . Most of the time is spent in tiny 10-12 square metre living rooms . They are free to go whenever they have something to do outside , as long as one woman stays to answer the telephone and is available to customers . At night ...
Contents
Sex Diaries of Tourists Returning from | 13 |
Male Perspectives | 24 |
Postcolonial Entrepreneurs | 42 |
Copyright | |
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