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Written by Scott Silver
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Saturday, 29 April 2000 |
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There can be no more disgusting or abusive form of industrial tourism than "Sex Tourism." For those unfamiliar with this issue, it is a global problem of massive and growing proportions.
Please read the short quoted passages below and then ask yourself the following question:
"In allowing tourism's pimps to turn America's wild lands into wreckreational commodities, are we not doing to Mother Nature what poorer nations are doing with the bodies of their women and children -- turning them into commodities?"
Prostitution comes in many forms... and not all pimps wear sharkskin suits.
Scott
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http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/DB/issues/98/11.30/view.balotro.html
Imagine basking in the sun, watching beautiful women perform an exotic
tropical dance and being massaged by a skilled masseuse (your
soon-to-be-wife) in a foreign land all for only $2,000. It's a perfect
vacation day for a sex tourist.
Women's Labor: A Key Factor in Globalization
Ironically it is the excesses of wealth that globalization has
generated in some parts of the world, especially some parts of Europe
and Asia, the increased demand for a different kind of women's labor
that has led to a dramatic and frightening increase in trafficking in
women for prostitution and sex tourism. Women's bodies become just
another commodity to be bought and sold.
http://www.gn.apc.org/tourismconcern/magazine/sex%20tourists.htm
The most interesting feature of sex tourism is how locals involvement
rests on using their 'Blackness' as part of the commodity that they are
selling. For along with the actual services, whether it be acting as a
guide, fruit seller, artist, or gigolo/prostitute, they are selling
part of their personal self.
So long as it remains acceptable to use 'difference' as the Caribbean's
unique selling point, the tourist industry will continue to provide a
framework which permits (even encourages) sex tourism.
Consumerist Behavior and the Development of Tourism
Consumer behavior included and coincided with the development of
tourism as a world industry. Politically vulnerable and economically
weak countries were opened up as tourist destinations. As large numbers
of male tourists bought sexual adventure in exotic countries of the
South, the routes and the businesses of sex tourism, were established.
It was also during this period that international financing
institutions were pushing the development of tourism as an economic
strategy for developing countries whose governments then pursued
aggressive and successful tourism promotion policies.
http://193.135.156.14/webpub/csechome/216a.htm
Sex tourism (including child sex) is seen as an unfortunate but
necessary part of tourism development. There is a frequently quoted
statement by a former Deputy Prime Minister of a government in Asia
when his country was developing its tourism industry. Speaking to
Provincial Governors in October 1980 he said that they should
contribute to the national tourism effort by developing scenic spots
while at the same time encouraging "certain entertainments which some
of you may find disgusting and embarrassing because they are related to
sexual pleasures". The Deputy Police General responded to the challenge
to promote tourism "by lengthening service hours on entertainment
places .... to welcome tourists". The link between tourism and
prostitution is a mind-set in many places...
It must be clearly pointed out that whatever short-term economic
benefits might come from sex customers for tourism and related
interests concerned, the unseen long term economic, social, cultural
and health costs are high and passed to "others", i.e. the future
generation, the future government, international aid agencies, aid
programmes from the countries of tourists' origin, charity
organizations etc. This reality defines - by implication - concrete
responsibilities on the side of all those, who can influence the course
of tourism development.
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