Butterfly: An Erotic Odyssey - Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines (Sex in Southeast Asia) [Mass Market Paperback]

Steven Yang (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2005

Butterfly explores love for sale in Southeast Asia and the sensuality of the twenty-six young ladies profiled in this erotic odyssey . . . sexual technique, travel, culture, history, politics, and Pattaya's wild celebration of Songkran. In Butterfly, our intrepid photojournalist is writing travel guides in Pattaya and Phnom Penh, shooting illustrations, and making love with pretty Thai and Vietnamese women every night. Butterfly is hot, relentless and explicit, a virtual Kama Sutra of sexual variations. . . . told in a man-to-man fashion. Author of ten guides to Southeast Asian destinations, Yang has woven a treasure of travel information into this erotic tour de force.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Steven Yang . . . Our Asian expert dishes up the hot sauce." --Hustler's Asian Fever magazine

"Butterfly . . . A three month romp in Thailand and Cambodia . . . Find out what the girls of spoutheast Asia are really like!" --Asian Beauties magazine

"Butterfly takes a deep look at the Southeast Asian sex scene. . . . intimate . . . entertaining . . . dripping with sex." --Oriental Women magazine

About the Author

Steven Yang's "Yin & Yang" column, currently published in every issue of Oriental Women magazine, has been read throughout the English-speaking world for seven years. Yang's columns, photography, short stories, and travel articles have been featured in virtually all of America's magazines featuring Asian women. Chapter One of Butterfly, "Show Time," has been published in both Hustler's Asian Fever magazine and Oriental Women magazine. Butterfly is a smash bestseller in Thailand, where much of the story is set.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 430 pages
• Publisher: Full Moon Books; 1st edition (March 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9749270509
• ISBN-13: 978-9749270509
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be a voyeur to a connoisseur of life!, November 25, 2006

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Elliot (Boston, MA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butterfly: An Erotic Odyssey - Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines (Sex in Southeast Asia) (Mass Market Paperback)

Aside from learning a great deal about sexual positions and how to live and enjoy life, Steven Yang shares with his readers lots of true to life nuances like the physical build and temperament of the women he encountered in Thailand, Cambodia and The Philippines. In true artist's fashion he elaborates on the minute details of his experiences, teaching us how to be cognizant of life in all its facets. He also teaches a great deal about Southern Asian society and their women in particular. He shows an uncanny ability to quickly read a personality, something few of us men are adept at.
Steven's writing style allows one to vicariously share his voracious appetite for life. By generously allowing his readers access to some of his intimate thoughts, he shares experiences with us that we would ordinarily never have.
Overall I really enjoyed his writing style. Some of his material is peppered with humorous and poignant remarks, like when he comments about some young US solders who visited an area with seasoned working girls "they looked like they had just fallen off a cabbage truck". Many lines throughout the book are worthy of being emblazoned in bronze.
As a person, Mr. Yang seems quite the sophisticate. He has clearly been around the block many times and I'm astounded at his scope and wide grasp of many subjects.... Most importantly, he knows himself well.

I presume his portrayals were of actual events (they seem real enough) and this gives the added dimension of a guide that others can follow should they choose to. In fact he teaches throughout the book, from tidbits of Thai language to locations and much more. A virtual treasure trove of information!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME! An exciting, sex-filled romp through Southeast Asia, October 14, 2006

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KD (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butterfly: An Erotic Odyssey - Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines (Sex in Southeast Asia) (Mass Market Paperback)

Butterfly is a must read for any guy with an interest in, or curiosity about, SE Asia...especially its women. Having made over 50 trips to Thailand myself, and more than a handful to the Philippines, Butterfly is spot on. Sex is available the world over, but nowhere is it available like it is here.

In SE Asia a sexy, warm, charming, beautiful "girlfriend" (or "girlfriends"!) can be had for an hour, a day, a week, or more. The author shows us just how easy it is to be a "Butterfly"...fulfilling fantasies most can only dream of, yet still, raising questions many will likely struggle with.

In Butterfly, Yang quotes, 'Asia changes a man', which is true...but this quote can be taken a step further..."Asian women change a man". Revel vicariously as Yang explores all the pleasures these treasures of SE Asia have to offer in this true story written over his three month adventure in Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars At times interesting, but never erotic, February 16, 2008

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Zarock (NZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Butterfly: An Erotic Odyssey - Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines (Sex in Southeast Asia) (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought this book after it was included in a search for men's erotica here on Amazon (of which there seems to be a lack of for straight guys).

The book started off well and it was really interesting learning about the bars and what goes on over there as well as the people he meets and the places he goes.

After that the book gets repetitive with the author getting up, finding a girl, bringing her back to his hotel, doing her, him going to sleep, and then doing it all again the next day. Many times the sex scenes were not that descriptive and sometimes very short - I suspect because the author has done so many girls it is nothing special to him anymore.

Finally when he goes to Cambodia it gets interesting again for a little while because he describes the places that he goes and the people he meets, then it gets in to that "Ground Hog Day-ness" with him just getting a girl, shagging her, and then doing it all again the next day.

After Cambodia he goes back to Thailand where more of the same happens until near the end of the book where he starts describing just going to the beach meeting groups of girls, talking with, and having parties with them.

Note that the author never travels to the Philippines, he has a paid for girlfriend over there and whenever he got a crappy coc sucking he would mention her and how well she did it.

While sometimes interesting I did not find this book erotic at all; it does not contain any elements needed for eroticism, there is no longing, no sexual tension, no naughtyness - it's all paid for and far too easy. If you are easily turned on then this book might do it for you, but I found myself far more turned on by the descriptions of nakedness and sex in books by the likes of Wilbur Smith.

I actually stopped reading this book twice, because there is no real plot you can quite easily do this - there is nothing to make you read "just one more chapter" before you go to sleep, which for some people might be a good thing.

Printing and binding was all good.