Writer Gerrie Lim investigated the blue-chip sex trade in Singapore and gained access to the secret world of high-priced sex workers. The result is a series of lucid portraits offering insights into this remarkable area of modern commerce.
His subjects are women who are lavishly rewarded with money and gifts, some diverging from the oft-trod path to perform kinky services that include whipping and spanking, others being flown to exotic resorts in the company of men with money to burn. He also enters the shadowy domain of gay male escorts and karaoke hostesses, whose views challenge societal norms and question assumptions made about their career choices.
But don’t take it from me: as Paul “The Great Railway Bazaar” Theroux wrote: “At last, after thirty years of my avoiding the city-state, this book restores my faith in the Singapore character and gives me reasons to return.”
The Invisible Trade is now available at all good bookstores in Singapore for S$18.95. For punters in other regions, the publisher, Monsoon Books, also provides an online shop for the convenience of readers worldwide.
(Full disclosure: Yeah, Gerrie’s my friend.)
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