ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the reasons that bring some migrants to search for sex, love, and romance abroad and outside their local spaces and networks. It illustrates migrants’ motivations in searching for wives in Peru with Peruvian values, and the imagined representations of gay men searching for love abroad. Furthermore, the chapter explores the diverse services available online for searching for romance transnationally. Finally, it analyzes a form of sexual tourism that some Peruvian migrant men organize to Peru to undertake “harmless” sexual journeys.