Introduction: cross-cultural reflections on an intimate intersection / Mark B. Padilla [and others] -- Neo-liberalism and the marriage of reputation and respectability: entrepreneurship and the Barbadian middle class / Carla Freeman -- Tourism and tigueraje : the structures of love and silence among Dominican male sex workers / Mark B. Padilla -- "If there is no feeling-- " : the dilemma between silence and coming out in a working-class butch/femme community in Jakarta / Saskia E. Wieringa -- "Love makes a family" : globalization, companionate marriage, and the modernization of gender inequality / Jennifer S. Hirsch -- The strange marriage of love and interest : economic change and emotional intimacy in northeast Brazil, private and public / L.A. Rebhun -- A fluid mechanics of erotas and aghape : family planning and maternal consumption in contemporary Greece / Heather Paxson -- Loving your infertile Muslim spouse : notes on the globalization of IVF and its romantic commitments in Sunni Egypt and Shia Lebanon / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Playcouples in paradise : touristic sexuality and lifestyle travel / Katherine Frank -- Buying and selling the "girlfriend experience" : the social and subjective contours of market intimacy / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Love work in a tourist town : Dominican sex workers and resort workers perform at love / Denise Brennan -- Romancing the club : love dynamics between Filipina entertainers and GIs in U.S. military camp towns in South Korea / Sealing Cheng -- Love at first sight? : visual images and virtual encounters with bodies / Nicole Constable.