Examining erotic encounters between European, Asian and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practice and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Polynesian islands.

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the Pacific Lenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud and Imperial Sexualities Ann Staler Ch. 2: Contested Images and Common Strategies: Early Colonial Sexual Politics in the Massim Adam Reed Ch. 3: Gaze and Grasp: Plantations, Desires, Indentured Indians, and Colonial Law in Fiji John D. Kelly Ch. 4: From Point Venus to Bali Ha'i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific Margaret Jolly Ch. 5: Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations and Thailand - Place and Sex Lenore Manderson Ch. 6: Primal Dream: Masculinism, Sin and Salvation in Thailand's Sex Trade Annette Hamilton Ch. 7: Kathoey >< Man: The Historical Emergence of Gay Male Identity in Thailand Peter A. Jackson Ch. 8: State of Desire: Transformations in Huli Sexuality Jeffrey Clark Ch. 9: A Plague on the Borders: HIV, Development, and Traveling Identities in the Golden Triangle Doug Porter Ch. 10: A Matter of "Choice": Discourses on Prostitution in the Philippines Lisa Law Ch. 11: The Foreign Devil Returns: Packaging Sexual Practice and Risk in Contemporary Japan Sandra Buckley Notes Bibliography Filmography Contributors Index