Vietnam
Vietnamese women in 16th and 17th century Tonkin were sexually autonomous and even daughters of Vietnamese Mandarin officials could engage in temporary marriages with foreign merchants like the English and Dutch, both in Hanoi and Doméa in modern Haiphong. In Doméa even Moor Muslim Lascars on western ships via Fort St. George visited Vietnamese prostitutes as witnessed in 1688 by Dampier. In Hanoi the English and Dutch employees of the East India companies had temporary Vietnamese wives and bore children. The Vietnamese mandarins accented the children and raised them because they were light skinned. Haiphong was the main port of entry for European merchants during this time.