Invisible Trade II - Softcover

Gerrie Lim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9814423580 ISBN 13: 9789814423588

Publisher: Mon, 2013

Synopsis

series by Gerrie Lim that has sold over 35,000 copies to date! Writer Gerrie Lim investigates the secret world of high-priced escorts and legal and freelance sex workers in Singapore. The result is a series of lucid portraits offering insights into this remarkable area of modern commerce. His subjects are women who are lavishly rewarded with money and gifts, some diverging from the oft-trod path to perform kinky services that include whipping and spanking, others being flown to exotic resorts in the company of men with money to burn. He also enters the shadowy domain of gay male escorts and karaoke hostesses, whose views challenge societal norms and question assumptions made about their career choices. There s the girl who works at a public relations agency by day and moonlights as an escort by night, the karaoke-bar mamasan who deals in wild and wanton girls from mainland China, the American male escort who gets paid by visiting Shanghai socialites for his companionship both in an out of their hotel bedrooms, and the Singaporean university student who freelances as a bondage model. The result is a fascinating series of cultural observation, from the vantage point of an eloquent literary voice.

About this title

About the Author

Los Angeles-based Gerrie Lim wrote the popular 'Cinema Blue' column for Penthouse Variations. He has also written for Billboard, Details, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, The San Diego Union-Tribune and The Wall Street Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mon
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814423580
• ISBN 13: 9789814423588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224