Travels in the Skin Trade by Jeremy Seabrook

Book Description: Press coverage of the sex trade in Thailand routinely consists of moralizing and sensationalist denunciations of this infamous “industry”. Through the words of sex workers, performers, and all those who provide services within the sex industry – and their clients – this book poses some controversial questions: who are the real beggars – … Read more

Love in a Different Climate by Jeremy Seabrook

Book Description: In this carefully researched and finely written work, Jeremy Seabrook deals with subjects rarely discussed in Western narratives about South Asia. Going beyond a straightforward contextualisation of the gatoei (lady-boys) in Thailand and the hijara (eunuchs) of India, he unravels the less familiar and more complex territory of homosexual and homoerotic encounters in … Read more