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Author Leong, Kai Wen

Title Pleasure factory : horrors of the Singapore flesh trade / Kaiwen Leong with Elaine Leong and Chiu Whye Leong
Published Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; PART-TIME HOOKER, FULL-TIME MOTHER; NO LOVE FOR THE LOVELESS; 'ESCAPE'; FATHER; OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS; FOREIGN AFFAIRS; KIDS WELCOME; Conclusion; About the Authors
Summary Underneath Singapore's squeaky-clean exterior is a dark realm like no other. Based on interviews with hundreds of prostitutes in Singapore and years of research, we bring you Pleasure Factory. In the Pleasure Factory, women advertise pleasure by the hour, but the only real product is pain. Night after night, these women force smiles onto their faces, while their bodies are taken, ravaged, and violated. Day after day, they force themselves to continue for the sake of their children, families, for sheer desperate human survival. The only defense is numbness. The only comfort is empty hope. But w
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Subject Prostitutes -- Singapore
Prostitution -- Singapore
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Singapore
Form Electronic book
Author Leong, Elaine
Leong, Chiu Whye
ISBN 9789814484527
9814484520