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Sex Work in Southeast Asia

The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS

By Lisa Law

Published June 22nd 2000 by Routledge – 160 pages

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia.

Name: Sex Work in Southeast Asia: The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Lisa Law. Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS...
Categories: Asian History, Social Geography, Tourism