“The power of sex” : a study of power relations in the sex workers community of Singapore.

• Main Author: Ng, Qian Hui.
• Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15203
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Prostitution in Singapore has never been openly discussed although many studies have been done on it. Consequently, the female prostitute has always been seen as the disempowered party in society. She is often bound by pimps, perceived as a sex slave whose only means of survival is through selling h...