Sex tourism: do women do it too?

Author: Jeffreys S.¹

Source: Leisure Studies, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2003 , pp. 223-238(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article examines a recent tendency amongst researchers of sex tourism to include women within the ranks of sex tourists in destinations such as the Caribbean and Indonesia. It argues that a careful attention to the power relations, context, meanings and effects of the behaviours of male and female tourists who engage in sexual relations with local people, makes it clear that the differences are profound. The similarities and differences are analysed here with the conclusion that it is the different positions of men and women in the sex class hierarchy that create such differences. The political ideas that influence the major protagonists in this debate to include or exclude women will be examined. The article ends with a consideration of the problematic implications of arguing that women do it too.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/026143603200075452

Affiliations: 1: Department of Political Science, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

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