Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the CaribbeanKamala Kempadoo With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex. Apart from attention to sex tourism in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Jamaica, the book also examines sex work in the gold mining industry in the hinterlands of Suriname and Guyana, and in the entertainment sector in Belize and the Dutch Antilles. It presents new insights into the Caribbean sex trade and provides proposals and strategies for addressing the situation in the twenty-first century. |
Contents
Continuities and Change Five Centuries of Prostitution in the Caribbean | 3 |
Fantasy Islands Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism | 37 |
Globalization Tourism and the International Sex Trade | 55 |
Back to the Future? Women Race and Tourism in Cuba | 81 |
Womens Work Is Never Done Sex Tourism in Sosua the Dominican Republic | 93 |
Come to Jamaica and Feel All Right Tourism and the Sex Trade | 125 |
Bleak Pasts Bleak Futures Life Paths of Thirteen Young Prostitutes in Cartagena Colombia | 157 |
TouristOriented Prostitution in Barbados The Case of the Beach Boy and the White Female Tourist | 183 |
The Muchachas of Orange Walk Town Belize | 217 |
Gold and Commercial Sex Exploring the Link between Smallscale Gold Mining and Commercial Sex in the Rainforest of Suriname | 237 |
Givin Lil Bit fuh Lil Bit Women and Sex Work in Guyana | 263 |
For the Children Trends in International Policies and Law on Sex Tourism | 291 |
A Human Rights Perspective on the Sex Trade in the Caribbean and Beyond | 309 |
Bibliography | 323 |
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About the Editor and Contributors | 355 |
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