ABSTRACT

Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex destinations'. It is a comprehensive summary of past research by academics and original primary and secondary research by the authors and has examples from Asia, Australasia and the USA.

The authors have generated new models to show different dimensions of sex tourism, which normalise at least some components of the sex industry, and represent a new way of looking at sex tourism by challenging the preconceived perceptions that some people have of sex tourism or confirm the impression of others. Sex Tourism looks at issues of importance to those working in tourism, women's studies, gender studies and social change.

chapter 1|21 pages

Holidays, sex and identity

A history of social development

chapter 2|25 pages

Tourism and prostitution

A symbiotic relationship

chapter 3|22 pages

Paradigms of sex tourism

chapter 4|32 pages

Bodies, identity, self-fulfilment and self-denial

A personal introduction and a caveat

chapter 5|16 pages

Bodies on the margin

Gay and lesbian tourism

chapter 6|18 pages

Sexual slavery

Trafficking sex

chapter 7|16 pages

The role of the state

Regulating sex and travel

chapter 8|2 pages

Afterword