ABSTRACT
This article is based on an anthropological fieldwork in the city of Pattaya, Thailand. The study consisted of in-depth interviews with approximately 60 Israeli men who are sex tourists. The analysis is grounded in political-economic theories and feminist theory, and searches a global context for local phenomenon while relating to sexuality as a central domain of patriarchal control. The research yielded many testimonies on the long-term influence of sex tourism on the men. They clarify that sex tourism is a significant mechanism that infuses the patriarchal perception, and affects not only the men and women directly involved. The article suggests that prostitution and sex tourism have other victims, and though they are merely secondary, the price they pay is very high. The cycles of influence which I mark here are related to the men themselves who are sex tourism consumers, their life partners, women in Israel and the culture of origin to which they return.
