HST 658 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dar Es Salaam, These Girls, Sex Industry
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In your essay answer, give clear, specific reasons drawn from the texts and from relevant lecture information. The economies of intimacy in the go-go bar - wilson. Came from poor families - needed to help support them. Came to bangkok through friends, female peers. Women chose the job they wanted - either a bartender or dancer. Workers in bangkok typically performed their services outside the bar. Example: ploi and her boyfriend - he paid her off . If a customer pays an off price (price to buy worker out of the bar for the night) then they negotiate exactly what"s going to happen and for how long. It is not an anything goes situation - they sell what they want to their customers and it is that attitude that appeals to many. There"s an emphasis on their capacity for abilities and choice - overall agency. Taught skills of negotiation for their pay, their services, etc.
