Dealing with the complex and discomforting grey area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many normative partnerships be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise.

Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as professional girlfriends, the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and their foreign...

Dealing with the complex and discomforting grey area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many normative partnerships be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise.

Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as professional girlfriends, the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and their...