Tag: Asia-Pacific
laura agustin , January 12th, 2020
Since last spring I’ve been providing Naked Anthropologist News to Radio Ava, a sexworker project in London. Something between tweeting and blogging, these news-bits are meant to be…
laura agustin , October 25th, 2018
I collect well-styled and informative descriptions of sex-industry settings in novels, here John le Carré’s 1990 The Secret Pilgrim. Fiction can transmit far more of the atmosphere and…
laura agustin , April 12th, 2018
In 1995, my friend’s 17-year-old daughter Ermina was looking for work in Santiago, Chile. The obvious job available to her was posing in a short skirt beside cars…
laura agustin , December 11th, 2017
I know many folks who relate to the idea of sex work as one of their jobs and to sexworker as one of their identities. But I have…
laura agustin , November 3rd, 2017
Militia detectives are at Kazansky Station in Komsomol Square, in Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Gorky Park. Cartier-Bresson’s 1954 photo shows the station at the left and surrounding traffic. …