SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Sex Tourism, Street Prostitution, The Beach Boys
Document Summary
Tourist-related-sexual-economic exchanges take place in economically underdeveloped countries. Patterns of sexual interaction b/w tourist women & local men differ from patterns of sexual interaction b/w tourist men & local women. Formally organized female prostitution in jamaica and dominican republic for tourist men. Female street prostitution limited sexual services for set fee. Tourist men provide demand for these services. No equivalent commercial market of male prostitutes for female tourists. Male tourists enjoy gendered economic & racialised power over local females. Local women report being abused by tourist clients. Beach boys not vulnerable to violence from female tourist sex partners or police harassment/ legal prosecution. Prostitution laws in both areas designed to control female, not male sexuality. # of north american & european who migrated to marry w/ local bf made on holiday ended up in extremely abusive relationships no action taken to protect them. White men"s whiteness never called into question by their sexual contact w/ black women (unlike for females)
