'This is an important and thoroughly documented book...It provides its readers with unique keys to understanding societies that we have often, at least in matters of sexuality, treated with exoticism or judged in reference to the West.' - China Perspectives'Sexual Cultures in East Asia is a rich resource for students and scholars and will well serve undergraduate and graduate courses on HIV/AIDS, sex work, sexual cultures and gender' - Sabine Fruhstuck, University of California, Santa Barbara, JRAS, Series 3, Volume 18/2-2008