Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language changing sexual mores

changing sexual mores

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Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language changing sexual moresEdited 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