Book Description: For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the “Tantric sex” currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of … Read more
Book Description: Welcome to the very real, largely hidden, and often surreal world of high-class sex for sale in Singapore, where the sexual desires of this tiny island run the gamut from simple missionary zeal to the cracking of the whip. Never before have outsiders been offered such a fascinating look into the weird and … Read more
Book Description: In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses—a career whose name … Read more
Book Description: This book gives an excellent history of US-ROK relations re: the US military troops in S. Korea. It also gives a vivid and detailed snapshot of the harsh, and sometimes brutal and tragic lives, of military prostitutes in the “camptowns.” And finally, it provides international backdrop, context and setting of the Nixon doctrine, … Read more
Book Description: This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be … Read more
Book Description: The first contemporary enthnographic account of urban life in China, Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City studies both public and private life, including such aspects as religious belief, gender images, family life, and sexual attraction.
Book Description: Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, … Read more
Book Description: This paper discusses a small but thriving industry of sex trafficking of women and children in Cambodia. Douglas examines the factors that contribute to trafficking, such as poverty, social disruption, and the sex tourism market in Southeast Asia. She explains how the practice continues, despite government and NGO attempts to stop it, and … Read more
Book Description: Why do Japanese mothers put their babies into coin lockers? And why is Japan the world’s biggest brothel of teenybopper hookers. Read The Japanese Disease: Sex and Sleaze in Modern Japan to find out. The Japanese Disease unlocks modern Japan’s sleaziest secrets — from Japan’s gang rapists, child prostitutes and serial killers to … Read more
Book Description: Behind the Red Door: Sex in China takes the reader on a journey from ancient days, when China’s rulers relied on shockingly vivid Daoist sex manuals, to the present, where China is torn between sexual orthodoxy and Western-style openness.