An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War
Amanda Boczar, "An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War "
English | ISBN: 1501761358 | 2022 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501761358 | 2022 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
In An American Brothel, Amanda Boczar considers sexual encounters between American servicemen and civilians throughout the Vietnam War, and she places those fraught and sometimes violent meetings in the context of the US military and diplomatic campaigns.
In 1966, US Senator J. William Fulbright declared that "Saigon has become an American brothel." Concerned that, as US military involvement in Vietnam increased so, too, had prostitution, black market economies, and a drug trade fueled by American dollars, Fulbright decried an arrogance of power on the part of Americans and the corrosive effects unchecked immorality could have on Vietnam as well as on the war effort. The symbol, at home and abroad, of the sweeping social and cultural changes was often the so-called South Vietnamese bar girl.
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