Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language and speaker of the Asia-Africa

and speaker of the Asia-Africa Institute

this wide-ranging narrative takes us through prehistoric and protohistoric periods

The great Thai linguist William Gedney believed that “if all other information on traditional Thai culture were to be lost

In Tan Suang U’s lively account of his daily life in Bangkok’s bustling Chinatown

If an observer asked today whether Thailand is becoming a “knowledge-based society”

Thai Sex Talk: The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand Language and speaker of the Asia-AfricaEdited 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