An in-depth portrait of Thailand’s billion-dollar sex industry
Thailand is known internationally as a popular sex tourism
destination. Yet, despite its size and reputation, remarkably
little research has focused on the country’s sex industry over
the past two decades. Based on original ethnographic data and other
sources, Sex Tourism in Thailand is an expansive yet nuanced study
of diverse sex markets and their moral economies. Ronald Weitzer
shows that although some of the central pillars of Thailand’s sex
industry remain unaltered over the past four decades, in other
respects there has been a profound transformation. In the sector
oriented toward foreign visitors, the number of sex businesses and
independent operators has grown numerically and geographically;
customers are increasingly diverse in race and nationality; paid
sexual encounters are no longer confined to young Thai women and
older white men; transgender women comprise a significant share of
the workforce; and technological advances give participants more
autonomy than ever before. Sex Tourism in Thailand explores these
developments in conjunction with related structural and
experiential dimensions in an illuminating account of sexual
commerce in Southeast Asia.
General
| Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ronald Weitzer
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4798-1340-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4798-1340-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781479813407 |
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