Taylor, Jacqueline Sanchez (2001) Dollars are a girl's best friend? Female tourists' sexual behaviour in the Caribbean. Sociology, Vol.35 (No.3). pp. 749-764. doi:10.1017/S0038038501000384

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Abstract

Though increasingly a focus of both political concern and academic research, ‘sex tourism’ is a difficult term to define. This article presents both quantitative and qualitative data on the sexual behaviour and attitudes of single and/or unaccompanied heterosexual female tourists in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. In so doing it aims to contribute to the body of research evidence on the phenomenon, as well as to highlight some of the conceptual problems associated with existing analyses of both ‘sex tourism’ and ‘romance tourism’. It calls for the development of a theoretical model of sex tourism which can accommodate both the diversity of tourist-related sexual-economic exchanges which take place in economically underdeveloped countries and the complexity of the power relations that underpin them.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Sex tourism -- Caribbean Area, Prostitution -- Caribbean Area, Sexual ethics for women, Tourism -- Caribbean Area, Caribbean Area -- Discovery and travel
Journal or Publication Title:	Sociology
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1469-8684
Official Date:	August 2001
Dates:	Date Event August 2001 Published
Volume:	Vol.35
Number:	No.3
Page Range:	pp. 749-764
DOI:	10.1017/S0038038501000384
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access

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