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The First Book Ever Written About Thailand’s Gay Sex Trade.
I Love Some of You the Most immerses readers in the lives, economies, and emotional worlds of gay prostitutes working in the Jomtien Complex in Pattaya, Thailand, the largest and most concentrated gay sex market on earth. They come from rice-farming villages in Thailand, shantytowns along Cambodian railway lines, war-ravaged regions of Myanmar, and remote Khmu villages in the mountains of Laos. Some walked for days through mountains and bullets just to get to Thailand. Others travel the world flying first class airplane tickets. Their stories form a portrait of a world shaped by desire, inequality and globalization. It is a world few outsiders can imagine, yet the compassionate portrayal of the struggle for survival and search for love will resonate with many.
You could fill bookshelf with books about the straight sex trade in Thailand. Incredibly, there has never been a single book about the gay sex trade, until now.
“Bob Ostertag details the mashup of poverty, gay desire, Southeast Asian culture, and globalization with insight, wisdom and an affable charm that casts an honest and respectful light on all the players in this bedazzled tale.”
—Michelle Tea, author of Free Love: Adventures in Marriage and Polyamory
"Much has been written about Thailand’s sex industry, nearly all of which focuses on women who sell sex to men. Bob Ostertag’s book turns attention to the “money boys” from throughout Southeast Asia who sell sex to foreign men in Thailand. Refusing sensationalism or easy judgment, Ostertag neither idealizes or demonizes. Instead, he offers a nuanced and deeply humane account that illuminates not only exploitation and hardship, but also agency, ambition, intimacy, and survival within the vast yet largely hidden world of male sexual commerce in Southeast Asia.”
—Ronald Weitzer, author of Sex Tourism in Thailand