Sextourismus immer mehr auch Frauendomäne

Arne Hoffmann, Thursday, 04.09.2003, 11:21 (vor 8190 Tagen)

Darüber berichtet Leah McLaren für "The Globe and Mail":

--> (...) Confronted with the term "sex tourist," most people automatically visualize a bald, corpulent, middle-aged American guzzling Mai Tai cocktails in a Bangkok strip club. It goes without saying that this imagined sex tourist is a man, and probably not a very nice one at that. But at many resorts and holiday destinations around the world, sex tourism is an equal-opportunity pastime these days. European and North American cities are burgeoning with single (heck, married), professional women with money, and libidinous urges, to burn.
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Like some resorts in the Dominican Republic and Cuba, Negril is renowned as a place where white, middle-aged Western women come in search of what is nicknamed "the big bamboo." According to the Guardian story, U.K. researchers Jacqueline Sanchez and Jila O'Connell Davidson found that the usual analysis of sex tourism "does not allow for the possibility of women as buyers of sexual services, because prostitute-users are, by definition, male, and this assumption is shared by many researchers and theorists."
The researchers interviewed 240 women on holiday in Negril and did two similar reports on the Dominican Republic. In the course of their holiday, almost a third of the interviewees had engaged in sexual relationships with local men. Though 60 per cent admitted to "economic elements to their liaisons, they did not perceive the sexual encounters as prostitute-client transactions, nor did they view their sexual partners as prostitutes." (...) <--

Nein, natürlich nicht. Sie bezahlen dafür, um Sex zu bekommen, aber selbstverständlich ist das keine Prostitution. Prostitution ist etwas, was die bösen MÄNNER machen, weil diese Unholde im Partriarchat gelernt haben, Frauen als Ware zu betrachten. Frauen würden dasselbe niemals tun, sobald sie die Gelegenheit dazu hätten ... :-/

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Herzlicher Gruß

Arne