Full Description
Explore the complex relationship between tourism and intimacy in this new book with a worldwide perspective!
With a unique combination of academic and personal accounts, Sex and Tourism: Journeys of Romance, Love, and Lust takes you behind the scenes with motel owners, adventure travel guides, backpackers, and others working on all sides of the international tourism industry. The editors have created a model that views the situation from three different perspectives: tourist, tourism provider, and nature of the encounter. Unlike other related volumes, this book is not just about the sex trade, but also about the role of tourism in love, marriage, and relationships.
The global focus of Sex and Tourism will introduce you to:
off-season romance on the island of Crete
sex tourism in Cambodia
a South Korean museum dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military
the sexual aspects of adventure travel in Canada
cross-cultural marriage in Thailand
gentleman's clubs in New Orleans
Australian river guides and their potential liaisons with clients
People who travel to escape their day-to-day lives often become involved in situations they would never find themselves in at home. Good or bad, many of these situations are examined in Sex and Tourism. You'll learn about the illegal trafficking of girls in Nepal, worldwide programs for combating child sex rings, and the lethal combination of AIDS and tourism, but you'll also find accounts of love and romance far from home. You will see how the tourism industry can act as a facilitator of human intimacy and what happens when different cultural realities collide.
Anyone involved in recreation, leisure, anthropology, social science, or tourism will be interested in this book. Sex and Tourism is an enlightening guide to the complex world found at the crossroads of sightseeing and sex.
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
Section I: The Setting
Chapter 1. Conceptual Framework of the Nexus Between Tourism, Romance, and Sex
Introduction
Relationships Between Sex and Tourism
The Centrality of Sex in the Tourism Experience
The Encounter
The Role of Tourism As Facilitator
Conclusion
Chapter 2. On Holiday in the Liminoid Playground: Place, Time, and Self in Tourism
Introduction
Place and Placelessness
Sensing the Liminal/Liminoid
Conclusion: The Importance of the Process of Traveling
Section II: Romance on the Road
Chapter 3. Island Girl (Lina M. Wong)
Chapter 4. Romance, Retsina, and Reality in Crete
Introduction
Agia Galini, Crete
Our Hosts
Other Travelers
Travel and the Single Woman
Questions Raised and Some Conclusions
Chapter 5. Transnational Marriage in Thailand: The Dynamics of Extreme Heterogamy
Introduction
Thai-Foreigner Intermarriage
Prostitution and Transnational Marriage
The Dynamics of Thai-Foreigner Marriages
Discussion
Conclusion
Section III: The Tourism Industry As Facilitator
Chapter 6. Sex Tourism: An Accommodation Provider's Perspective
Introduction
Motels and Sex Tourism
The Hot Pillow Trade
The Motel Operator's Perspective
Chapter 7. The Adventure in Adventure Travel
Introduction
Group Composition
Trip Phases
Chapter 8. Condoms in the First Aid Kit: River Guides, Clients, and Sex
Chapter 9. Attraction of the Naughty-Gentleman's Clubs As a Tourism Resource
Introduction
The Tradition of Stripping
Gentlemen's Clubs As Part of a Market's Pull Matrix
Structuring the Performative Space
Legal Action, Novelty, and Bourbon Street in the French Quarter
Conclusion
Section IV: The Dark Side
Chapter 10. Former Comfort Women As Touristic Objects in South Korea
Introduction
Tourism and Human Sexuality
Former Comfort Women and the History of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Conclusion
Chapter 11. The Dark Side of Tourism and Sexuality: Trafficking of Nepali Girls for Indian Brothels (Nina Rao)
Chapter 12. AIDS and Tourism: A Deadly Combination
Introduction
Tourism and HIV/AIDS
Trends in Vietnamese Tourism
Tourism and Prostitution
Perceptions of Commercial Sex Workers
Future Scenarios
Conclusion
Chapter 13. Sex Tourism: The Case of Cambodia
Introduction
Background
The Sex Industry: Supply and Demand
The Customers
Impacts of Sex Tourism on Cambodia
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Ending Child Sex Tourism: A Vision for the Future
Introduction
Child Pornography and the InternetThe Globalization of Child Sex Tourism
TourismA Catalyst for Change
What Comes Next?
Index
Reference Notes Included
