Name: Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and Aids in the Dominican Republic (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
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Author: Mark Padilla
ISBN: 9780226644363

portada Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and Aids in the Dominican Republic (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Author

Mark Padilla

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

294

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0226644367

ISBN13

9780226644363

Edition No.

Synopsis "Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and Aids in the Dominican Republic (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)"

In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, "Caribbean Pleasure Industry" shifts the focus to the men. Drawing on his ground-breaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures, and new challenges for HIV prevention. In fluid prose, Padilla analyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as "normal" hetero-sexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. Padilla's exceptional ability to describe the experiences of these men will interest anthropologists, but his examination of bisexuality and tourism as much-neglected factors in the HIV/AIDS epidemic makes this book essential to anyone concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.

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