Author: Dave Walker
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters To Bangkok Bar Girls & Their Revealing Interviews by Dave Walker & Richard S. Ehrlich TIME magazine hailed this book for its investigative journalism, interviews, and "intimate portrait" of the sex industry in Thailand. "Does love conquer poverty, cultural barriers and the fear of AIDS? Sometimes..." - TIME "A number of themes run through the book: prostitution, love, family, cultural stereotypes, AIDS. The most prominent, however, and perhaps the most interesting is money. "'Hello My Big Big Honey!' is interesting and readable, surprising and engaging...intriguing...picking up a copy of 'Hello My Big Big Honey!' is worthwhile..." - Bangkok Post A "masterwork" of "feminist research" - The British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections "...very funny..." - Publishers Weekly "...a Freudian whirlpool of sexual fantasies and frustration, of damaged egos and haunting super-egos, of dreams of pure love and acts of cold calculation, and a milieu of cross-cultural mayhem." - The Far Eastern Economic Review Richard S. Ehrlich is the Bangkok-based co-author and co-photographer, along with Dave Walker, of a book of investigative journalism entitled, "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews. Nearly all of the girls have flocked to the cities and resorts to escape their own prison: an impoverished existence in Thailand's rural expanses, whereas a night's takings from the city bar could sustain a family for a month. From Isan's desperately poor, rice farming villages, where hunger is the norm, the bars of Bangkok or Pattaya are a welcome escape. For girls with little education, they provide an opportunity to shine, and have the honour of providing for their families by sending new-found riches back home. - The Observer, U.K. "Thailand super-expats Richard Ehrlich and Dave Walker have many distinguished lines on their resumes, though none quite so noteworthy as 'Hello My Big Big Honey!', their anthology of love letters written to Bangkok bar girls by men of all nationalities, who, once back in the lands of dowdy, nagging women, strip malls, and other nine-to-five drudgery, can't seem to get the exotic vacation trollops of Thailand out of their minds." - Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, by Chuck Thompson "'Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews - This classic study of the Bangkok bar scene has been extolled by anthropologists and sociologists throughout the world." - S. Tsow, The Nation newspaper, Thailand "...our favorite is the timeless classic, 'Hello My Big Big Honey!'" - Bangkok Inside Out This book is a collection of love letters, written by men from all over the world, to Thai women who work in bars on Bangkok's famous Patpong Road. Plus revealing, in-depth, question-and-answer interviews with the women who receive them. How does romance blossom amid the harsh streets? "Hello My Big Big Honey!" delves beyond the neon, glitz, hype, and tragedy of Bangkok's red-lit nights and discovers a world of loneliness, desperation and - sometimes - love.
Author: Chuck Thompson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082093
Category : Travel writing
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Author: Dave Walker
Publisher: Bangkok, Thailand : Dragon Dance Publications
ISBN:
Category : Courtship
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Thomas M. Steinfatt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031301051X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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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 industry, makes for an excellent case study. While previous works have provided brief glimpses of one group of workers studied from a particular point of view, author Thomas Steinfatt examines considerations of health, behavior, economics, morality, religion, and worker safety. The result of data gathered from thousands of workers and customers in Thailand over a period of twelve years, Working at the Bar covers all aspects of an industry that, although it does not conform to various Western ideals, is nevertheless enormously significant. Among the most provocative of Steinfatt's arguments is that sex work is not itself immoral, and that far from being the exploitation industry we might imagine, sex work in Thailand is beneficial to everyone involved—especially given that education in this nation has proven not to be a viable alternative. Providing an opportunity for economic progress unavailable through other means, and providing working conditions far safer than those of the average Thai factory, sex work is ripe for a study that explores all aspects and perceptions associated with it. Working at the Bar is that long overdue study.
Author: Lenore Manderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226503042
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the PacificLenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud and Imperial Sexualities Ann Staler Ch. 2: Contested Images and Common Strategies: Early Colonial Sexual Politics in the Massim Adam Reed Ch. 3: Gaze and Grasp: Plantations, Desires, Indentured Indians, and Colonial Law in Fiji John D. Kelly Ch. 4: From Point Venus to Bali Ha'i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific Margaret Jolly Ch. 5: Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations and Thailand - Place and Sex Lenore Manderson Ch. 6: Primal Dream: Masculinism, Sin and Salvation in Thailand's Sex Trade Annette Hamilton Ch. 7: Kathoey > Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Ryan Bishop
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415914291
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Marc Askew
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134659857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous contemporary metropolis. Adopting insights from anthropology, urban studies and human geography, this is a powerful account of the city and its dynamic spaces. Marc Askew examines the city's variety from the inner-city slums to the rural-urban fringe, and gives us a keen insight into the daily life of the city's inhabitants, be they middle-class suburbanites or sex workers.
Author: Sheridan Prasso
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786736321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see.The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of 'yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with Asia or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practitioner of East-West relations.
Author: Lawrence Osborne
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 1429957328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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A PASSIONATE, AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S HOTTEST METROPOLIS Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons—a sex change operation, a night with two prostitutes dressed as nuns, a stay in a luxury hotel. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry. Broke (but no longer in pain), he finds that he can live in Bangkok on a few dollars a day. And so the restless exile stays. Osborne's is a visceral experience of Bangkok, whether he's wandering the canals that fill the old city; dining at the No Hands Restaurant, where his waitress feeds him like a baby; or launching his own notably unsuccessful career as a gigolo. A guide without inhibitions, Osborne takes us to a feverish place where a strange blend of ancient Buddhist practice and new sexual mores has created a version of modernity only superficially indebted to the West. Bangkok Days is a love letter to the city that revived Osborne's faith in adventure and the world.
Author: Denise Brennan
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332978
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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DIVAn ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization./div
