Sexual cultures and migration in the era of AIDS
Subtitle: anthropological and demographic perspectives
By: edited by Gilbert Herdt.
Contributors: Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Series: International studies in demography
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Sex customs -- Congresses.; Sexually transmitted diseases -- Congresses.; Population geography -- Congresses.; Demographic anthropology -- Congresses.
Description: Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS is the first demographic anthropological study of what happens to sexual behaviour and the rules of risk-taking in sexual encounters when people migrate from countryside to city, from one city to another, or from one country to another culture.

At the foreground of the study are commercial sex and prostitution, sexual tourism, heterosexual marriage and social pressure, and homosexuality and bisexuality in emerging sexual cultures. The volume brings together quantitative and qualitative case studies by an international panel of anthropologists, demographers, and sociologists aimed at better understanding the impact of human movement and mobility on sexual change and fertility.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference held in Bangkok, Thailand in March 1994, organized by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in cooperation with the Institute of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University.