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From Mekong Erotics: Men Loving/Pleasuring/Using Men in Lao PDR.
By Chris Littleton.
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2008.
I am 52 and live several hours outside of Vientiane. I was born here and stayed at school here in the countryside until I was 16, when I moved to the capital Vientiane and got a job as a typist in a government office. I had never met a kathoey before. I had heard the word phumae (a term for male/female used for other species, but not humans) before, but never had anyone to talk …