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Learn more. DOI: Heidi Hoefinger. 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.
Citations References Cohen, ; Hoefinger, ; Kummels, Full-text available. Jun On the face of it, the sexualised spaces I had ventured into, which bring "economically mobile" men from the North into contact with "impoverished" locals, seemed to align with globally pervasive imaginings of areas of the Global South where the sex "trade" has become the focal feature Hoefinger, These imaginings predictably bring with them and reproduce dominant discourses of sex work, exploitation, victimization, and the contravention of both hetero and homonormative moral orders.
Other conversations and encounters recorded in the data likewise draw attention to semiotic resources such as "good heart", or "angel" that are deployed to accentuate the esteem that Cambodians have for the Western visitor.
