ABSTRACT
Sex tourism is an industry, a set of social-sexual relations, and a site for the exercise of different kinds of power relations. Exploring sex tourism means asking questions about relations between sex and power, men and women, First and Third Worlds, and relations across national, racialised and cultural boundaries. The increase in sex tourism is linked directly to processes of global change, most noticeably to aspects of globalisation and restructuring which both facilitate expanding international travel and tourism, and generate increasing inequalities within and between states.
