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Sex Tourism in Thailand - Ronald Weitzer

Sex Tourism in Thailand

Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2023
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1341-4 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology

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.

Ronald Weitzer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at George Washington University. He is the author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business, co-author of Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform, and editor of Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Erotic Dancing.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 41 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 522 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4798-1341-9 / 1479813419
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-1341-4 / 9781479813414
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