Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language If an observer asked today

If an observer asked today whether Thailand is becoming a “knowledge-based society”

Readers will find insightful and enriching contributions that consider how gender relations in Asia — and indeed the very meaning of gender itself — are affected by neo‐liberalism

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Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language If an observer asked todayEdited by Pimpawun Boonmongkon and Peter A. Jackson Translated by Timo Ojanen The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in depth study of twenty one keywords deal directly and unflinchingly with the language of sex in Thailand in all its raw, sometimes humorous, and often derogatory immediacy. The registers