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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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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2014, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1628738650 9781628738650
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
Jan 02, 2014, Arcade
paperback
1611458811 9781611458817
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2012, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1102804754 9781102804758
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2012, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1611459834 9781611459838
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
2011, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1611452066 9781611452068
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Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World
April 1, 1997, Arcade Publishing
Paperback
in English
1559703725 9781559703727
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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.
1559702818 9781559702812
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