Cleo Odzer (died March 2001 in Goa) was an American writer. Her true first name was Sheila.^[1] For other uses, see Goa (disambiguation). ...

Originally from New York, she traveled in Europe and the Middle East in the early 1970s and worked as a model. She spent the late 1970s in the hippie culture of Anjuna, Goa. Her experiences there, including drug use and the drug smuggling used to finance the stay, would later form the basis of her second book, Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India (1995, ISBN 156201059X). Official language(s) None Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Flower Power Bus Hippie (also hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Anjuna is a village in Goa, one of the twelve Brahmin comunidades of Bardez. ... For other uses, see Goa (disambiguation). ...

After her return to the United States, she entered graduate school and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the The New School for Social Research with a thesis on prostitution in Thailand. Beginning in 1987, she had spent three years in Thailand to research this topic, and these experiences were described in her first book, Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World (1994, ISBN 1559702818). In this work she describes the Thai prostitutes she got to know as quick-witted entrepreneurs rather than exploited victims. Following publication of the book, she worked at Daytop, a drug rehabilitation organization.^[2] Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Initiation rite of the Yao people of Malawi Anthropology (from the Greek word , man or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ... The New School, previously known as New School University, is an institution of higher learning in New York City. ... Prostitution has existed in Thailand for a long time. ... Daytop is a cult posing as a drug addiction treament organization. ...

Her third book, Virtual Spaces: sex and the cyber citizen (1997, ISBN 0425159868) deals with cyber sex. Cybersex is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. ...

From 1995 to 1998 she produced several dozen episodes of her show Cleo's Adventures for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public access TV. She appeared in one episode of SexTV in 1999. She also appeared in the 2002 film Last Hippie Standing which deals with the Goa scene and contains some of her old super-8 footage from the 1970s. Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) is a non-profit organization that broadcasts programming on four public access stations in Manhattan, New York. ... SexTV is a Canadian television series which premiered in 1998 which explores many issues about sexuality. ... Super 8 mm film, also called Super 8 is a motion picture film format that was developed in the 1960s and released on the market in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8mm home movie format. ...

She returned to Goa in 2000 and died there of a stroke or brain tumor.

References

1. ^ The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (PA), 5 June 2003
2. ^ Urban Desire contributors

The Times Leader is a Knight Ridder newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. ...

External links

• Cleo Odzer's website
• Yahoo discussion group about Cleo Odzer
• Excerpts from Patpong Sisters. Urban Desires, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 1994