An edition of Patpong sisters (1994)

Patpong sisters

an American woman's view of the Bangkok sex world

1st ed.
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An edition of Patpong sisters (1994)

Patpong sisters

an American woman's view of the Bangkok sex world

1st ed.
  • 3 Want to read

Cleo Odzer, a young American anthropologist, spent three years studying Bangkok's red-light district, Patpong, an area of a few blocks teeming with bars and explicit sex shows. Patpong is now world-famous for its available and extremely attractive young women and men, who cater mainly to farangs - foreigners, most of them men but some women, who come from Europe, Australia, America, and Japan.

Odzer got to know the bar girls, the bar boys, and their varied entourages. She gained their confidence, interviewed them at length, lived among them, and accompanied some of them home to visit their families - whom they often supported - in the isolated countryside, where they were idolized.

She also got to know their customers - usually men who had traveled for thousands of miles to immerse themselves in the sensual world of Patpong - some of them falling in love with, even marrying, their newfound Thai companions. At times these liaisons, complicated by language and culture barriers, are truly hilarious, but they can be poignant, touching on the tragic. Odzer herself gained a deeper sympathy for these relationships when she became romantically involved with one of her male subjects. Her affair with him, mirroring the involvements in which many farangs found themselves with the bar girls, imparts to her book a very personal meaning.

Her people are not simply dry statistics but real human beings.

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English
Pages
313

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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2014, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
Jan 02, 2014, Arcade
paperback
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Patpong Sisters
2012, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Patpong Sisters
Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2012, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Patpong Sisters
Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2012, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Patpong Sisters
Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2011, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Patpong Sisters
Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
April 1, 1997, Arcade Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: Patpong sisters
Patpong sisters: an American woman's view of the Bangkok sex world
1994, Blue Moon Books, Arcade Pub., Distributed by Little, Brown and Co.
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-313).

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.74/5/09593
Library of Congress
HQ242.55.B3 O38 1994, HQ242.55.B3 O38 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
313 p. :
Number of pages
313

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1091286M
Internet Archive
patpongsistersam00odze
ISBN 10
1559702818
LCCN
94015551, 2013035251
OCLC/WorldCat
858610730, 30357744
Library Thing
168195
Goodreads
845523

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