Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Cult Health Sex. 2011 Dec;13 Suppl 2:S263-77. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2011.562307. Epub 2011 May 24.
The contours of commercial sex in Lao PDR are significantly shaped by forces facilitating the entry of women from one ethnic group, the Khmu, into this service industry niche. Agricultural transitions, development policies, changing gender roles, ethnic hierarchies, snowballing recruitment networks and growing capitalist sensibilities collectively prompt poor Khmu women to aspire to material gain via selling beer and sex. Their predominance in lower echelons of the sex industry demonstrates how forces of neoliberal expansion build on both opportunity and enduring marginalisation and that material economies are closely intertwined with intimate economies as trajectories of modernisation evolve in contemporary Laos.
老挝的商业性交易轮廓受到多种力量的显著影响，这些力量促使来自一个少数民族群体——克木族的妇女进入这个服务业利基市场。农业转型、发展政策、性别角色的变化、族裔等级制度、不断扩大的招聘网络以及资本主义意识的不断增强，共同促使贫困的克木族妇女渴望通过卖啤酒和性来获得物质利益。她们在性产业的底层占据主导地位，这表明新自由主义扩张的力量既利用了机会，也加剧了持久的边缘化，而且物质经济与亲密经济密切交织在一起，因为现代化的轨迹在当代老挝不断发展。
