by Ryan Bishop, Lillian S. Robinson · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780415914291
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«Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle» is the essay by Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson, published by Routledge in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The book analyses how sex tourism became integrated into the so-called «Thai economic miracle»: Thailand's tourism industry, valued at billions of dollars, has prostitution as its main attraction, and every year young people arrive in Bangkok to work in brothels, massage parlours and hostess bars catering to tourists from the United States, Western Europe, Japan and Australia, among others. The work traces the historical, cultural, material and textual traditions that made paid sex an integral part of the country's economy and examines international sex tourism from the perspectives of economic development planning, forced labour market choices and the construction of «other» sexual cultures in the Western imagination.
The essay developed from Lillian S. Robinson's article in The Nation.
Recommended for readers interested in cultural studies, anthropology, sociology and development economics, as well as academic analyses of sex tourism.
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