UID:
almafu_9959230312102883
Format:
1 online resource (448 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-82-16-03872-6
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1-280-31495-8
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9786610314959
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0-313-01051-X
Series Statement:
Civic discourse for the third millennium
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Cover -- WORKING AT THE BAR -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON THE GLOSSARY AND THE USE OF BOLDFACE AND ITALIC -- 1 ON STUDYING SEX WORK -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY STUDY AIDS? -- WHY STUDY COMMERCIAL SEX? -- The Free/Paid Distinction -- Needed Research -- Basic Questions -- WHY STUDY THESE ISSUES IN THAILAND? -- Commercial Sex Is Dependent on Population Density -- Projected Growth Rates in Asian Cities -- Asian Cities Will Be Young and Poor, and the Poor Are Female -- Commercial Sex Providers Are Mainly Young Poor Females -- THAILAND AS A GLOBAL PLAYER -- Features of Commercial Sex in Thailand -- TERMS OF REFERENCE -- Bar Worker -- Names -- "Prostitute" -- "Prostitution" -- A CRIME OF COMMUNICATION -- "Dirty Old Foreign Men with Money" -- Context of Understanding -- 2 NUMBERS AND TYPES OF WORKERS AND WORKPLACES -- GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING STUDY -- Existence of Streetwalkers -- Proportions of Venue Types and Worker Types -- Number of Workers in Bangkok -- Number of Workers in Thailand: Point-in-Time Estimate -- DIRECT VERSUS INDIRECT VENUES AND WORKERS -- VENUES NOT STUDIED -- Barbershops, Teahouses, Karaoke Parlors, and Khao Tom -- Massage Parlors -- Local Thai Bars -- Brothels -- Brothels in the North -- The Role of Brothels, Hotels, and Outcall Services in Foreign-Oriented Commercial Sex -- FOREIGN-ORIENTED BARS -- Areas Studied -- Patpong -- Nana -- Cowboy -- South Pattaya -- Format Changes over Time -- Types of Bars -- Hostess Bars and Discos -- Go-go/Downstairs-Type Bars -- Show/Upstairs-type Bars -- Specialty-Service Bars -- After-Hours Venues -- CLIP JOINTS -- Screening of Applicants -- THE SHOW -- Artistic Acts -- Body Painting -- Fire Show -- Candle Show -- Floor Exercise -- Bath or Shower Show -- Traveling Man/Snake Show -- Simulated S& -- M Show -- Insertion/Expulsion Acts -- Extraction Acts.
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Insertion Acts -- Meaning of the Show -- 3 THE ROUTES TO BAR WORK -- INFLUENTIAL FIRST SOURCES OF BAR WORK INFORMATION -- Phase I Data: Optimal Heterophily in Workers as Information Sources -- Phase II Data -- Indentured Servitude, Slavery, and Abuse -- MOTIVATIONS TOWARD BAR WORK -- Ability -- Money -- Economic Hardship -- Economic Advantage: Increase in Standard of Living -- Love and Money -- Boredom versus the Excitement of the Bar -- The Dating/Exciting Model -- The Home/Family Model -- Friendship -- Status -- English -- 4 REASONS FOR NOT WORKING -- INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Loss of Status -- Sex without Love -- Loss of Boyfriends and the Ability to Marry -- Loss of Self-Respect -- Parents -- Hassles -- Arrest, Fines, and Incarceration -- Considerations of Foreign Workers -- LATER CONSIDERATIONS -- Difficulty and Nature of the Work -- Job Satisfaction -- Hardening and Desensitization -- Job Hazards -- Assault and Refusal to Pay -- Disease -- Losing Money to Pimps -- Abandoning Children Conceived in the Occupation -- A Bad Ending -- Required Intimacy with Unattractive Partners -- Required Intimacy with Unknown Partners -- Enjoyment of Sex on the Job -- SUMMARY OF LACK OF REASONS FOR NOT WORKING -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- 5 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CONCERNS -- BUDDHISM -- Lay Buddhism -- Sexual Immorality -- Merit Making -- Status of Women -- Buddhism as Practiced -- RELIGIOUS PRACTICE WITHIN THE BAR -- THE MORALITY OF BAR WORK -- Promiscuity -- Honesty -- Reopening the Closed Deal -- COMMERCIAL SEX AND WESTERN MORAL THOUGHT -- THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODEL AND THE SUPPRESSION OF SEX WORK -- 6 BAR WORKER DEMOGRAPHICS -- AGE -- Comparisons with Other Studies -- Age-Cohort Friendship Groups -- The Youngest Workers -- Comparison of U.S. and International Data -- United States -- International -- Thai-U.S. Comparison -- Number of Underage Workers -- The 800,000.
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Empirically Based Estimates -- Enforcement Effects -- The Oldest Workers: Two Cases -- Suay -- Noi -- FAMILY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENCE -- Area Definitions -- Origin -- Means of Support of Family of Origin -- Current Living Situation -- EDUCATION -- PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL CHALLENGES -- Hearing Impairment -- Drug Use -- 7 EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS -- PRIOR BAR WORK EXPERIENCE -- MONTHS WORKED -- AGE FIRST WORKED -- EMPLOYEE TURNOVER -- Turnover Rate -- Employment Activity Rate -- Workforce Half-Life -- Observed Turnover and Employment Activity -- Observed Half-Life -- Reenter Percentage -- Novice-Worker Percentage -- Applications of the Reenter and Novice-Worker Percentages -- Number of Workers in Thailand: Yearly Ever-Worked Estimate -- Effect of Foreign Workers and Working Abroad -- Yearly Population Proportion Estimate -- SUNLIGHTING: WORK IN ADDITION TO BAR WORK -- NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS -- INCOME -- Salaries and Commissions -- Tips -- Customer Payments for Services -- Fines -- Calculating Income -- Income Variation -- Income Comparisons -- Comparisons with Previous Studies -- Thai Minimum Wage -- Other Thai Income Comparisons -- Incomes of Outcall Workers -- DISTRIBUTION OF CUSTOMER PAYOUT -- BAR WORKER EXPENSES: WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? -- Savings -- Major Expenses -- Lesser Expenses -- 8 PARTNER SELECTION AND NEGOTIATIONS -- INTERACTION STAGES IN SHOW BARS, GO-GO BARS, AND SALARIED HOSTESS BARS -- The Approach Stage -- The Decision to Approach -- The Selectivity Index -- The Approach Itself -- The Social Interaction Stage -- The Negotiation/Sell Stage -- Use of Extraction Fabrications -- Cooperation and Competition in the Negotiation/Sell Stage -- Negotiating to Go -- Inside versus Outside -- Preemptive Payments -- Inducing a Reluctant Worker to Go -- Delivery of Services -- INTERACTION STAGES IN PHI HOSTESS BARS.
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INTERACTION STAGES IN SPECIALTY-SERVICE BARS -- INTERACTION STAGES IN OUTCALL WORK -- 9 AIDS IN THAILAND -- THE EXTENT OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC -- THE EPIDEMIC IN THAILAND -- The Five Waves of HIV Infection in Thailand -- The Extended Cost of AIDS -- Changes in Risk Factors and Prevalence in Thai Population Subgroups -- WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "YOU'VE GOT AIDS?" -- Testing in Sex Work Venues -- α and β: Type I and Type II Error Rates in HIV Testing -- Western Blot Error Rates -- ELISA Error Rates -- Effects of Communication of a Positive Test Result -- The Effects of Communication of a Negative Test Result -- AIDS BELIEFS AND KNOWLEDGE IN THAILAND -- SEX EDUCATION IN THAILAND -- SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THAILAND -- Visits to Sex Workers -- Number of Customers of Sex Workers -- AIDS AND COMMERCIAL SEX IN THAILAND -- Sexual Transmission Rates -- Infection Rates and Related Risk Factors in Commercial Sex -- Infection Rates among Female Sex Workers -- Infection Rates Among Males -- The Decline in Infection Rates and in Brothel Visits as a Risk Factor -- CONDOMS, COMMERCIAL SEX, AND AIDS IN THAILAND -- Do Condoms Encourage Sex? -- Condom Effectiveness and Breakage -- Decreased Sensation -- Condom Use -- The "100% Condom Campaign" -- Risk of HIV during Oral Sex -- Continued Condom Use -- Alcohol Consumption, Sexual Behavior Patterns, and Condom Use -- Use of Multiple Condoms -- Condoms and Cervical Cancer -- The Female Condom -- THE EFFECTS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION ON RISK BEHAVIOR -- Knowledge -- Fear Appeals -- Locus of Control -- Knowledge of AIDS Vaccine Trials -- Studies of Unique Populations -- Sexual Beliefs and Behaviors of IV Drug Users -- Men Who Have Sex With Men -- Hill Tribe Studies -- AIDS Education in Thai Commercial Sex -- Outreach Programs -- Health Education -- EMPOWER -- WELD and Microloans -- The Model Brothel Program -- Diffusion of Innovations.
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RELATIONAL BONDS, CONDOM USE, AND THE "CAUSE" OF AIDS -- Commercial Yes, Noncommercial No -- The Relational Bond Effect -- Feen Relationships, Casual Sex, and Marriage -- A Mechanism for Blaming Sex Workers for HIV Transmission -- Occupations Do not Transmit AIDS -- 10 CONDOM USE AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN-ORIENTED BARS -- DO ORAL RESPONSES RELATE TO ACTUAL CONDOM USE? -- CONDOM USE PROPORTIONS IN BAR TRANSACTIONS -- BAR TYPE, WORKER TYPE, AND CONDOM USE -- BAR WORKER CONDOM REQUESTS PRIOR TO VAGINAL SEX WITH CUSTOMERS -- Bar Worker Condom Use with Noncommercial Partners -- BAR WORKER NATURAL MESSAGE STRATEGIES IN INDUCING CONDOM USE -- Opening Strategies -- Fallback Strategies -- EFFECTIVE WORKER COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES -- 11 HOPES, DREAMS, AND THE FUTURE -- SHORT-TERM GOALS -- MID-RANGE GOALS -- LONG-TERM GOALS -- The "No Thai Men" Rule -- A Perceptual Domain Explanation -- A Comparison with "Sarong Party Girls" -- RETIREMENT -- The Sample of Retired Workers -- Pattern 1 (Representing 13 Retirees)-Ah, Ton's Wife -- Pattern 2 (Representing 12 Retirees)-Bun, Older Sister -- Pattern 3 (Representing 10 Retirees)-Kop, Sister and Student -- Pattern 4 (Representing 5 Retirees)-Lek, Never on Sunday -- Pattern 5 (Representing 5 Retirees)-Doi, The Emigrant -- Pattern 6 (Representing 10 Retirees)-Lai, Coping and Thinking of Japan -- On Working Abroad -- Closing Comments on Retirement -- 12 SUPPORT STAFF, MANAGEMENT, AND OWNERS -- SUPPORT STAFF -- MANAGEMENT -- The Manager -- Why Have a Mamasan? -- The DJ -- Manager Style -- Hiring Decisions -- The Manager's Views on Health Issues: Phase I -- The Manager's Views on Health Issues: Phase II -- Sok, the Manager -- Mamasan -- Conducting Staff Meetings -- Mamasan's Views on Health Issues: Phase I -- Mamasan's Views on Health Issues: Phase II -- Pattern 7 (Representing 9 Retirees)-Mrs. Daeng, Mamasan.
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OWNERS.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-56750-566-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798216038726
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