å Thursday, November 16th, 2017

In Amalia L. Cabezas, piece “Between Love and Money,” she discusses the importance and globalization of sex. Sex in history, goes back to the breeding of slaves, the trafficking of women, and the hiring of wet nurses. The globalization of sex created conditions which allowed sexual identities to develop. Cabezas tell us how workers challenge the labor process through their expression of sexual identities. Her perception that people flee to these countries to take advantage of these sexual laws allows to create the idea that characterizes all sex tourism as sex work. Some people such as Martin Opperman and Chris Ryan believe that sex tourism is a form of victimization. Opperman believes that it is a form of victimization because the motivation for sex tourism is to travel to a foreign countries for the sole purpose of partaking in sexual activities. These women are being taken advantage of by men looking for an easy way to have sex. The research done by Cabezas portrays the idea of the exchanging of money for sex as acceptable. Sex tourism brings money into an economy that is struggling to stay afloat. It represented the reliance on outside forces to provide for them and gain economic stability. While, the idea of a sex worker is where one exchanges sexual activities for money. That definition is a bit construed because a lot of people in the Caribbean do it for the romance and leisure. The idea that sex tourism is more than just sex and money is becoming more widely known. It involves behaviors that are deemed acceptable, therefore it is more than an illicit activity. Although, some blame the absence of sexual rights on tourism because of their ability to take advantage of women, others blame it on the women for their greed, vain, and lack of moral values. These female sex workers could be seen as deviants and as a shame to society. Cabezas challenges these views because she believes that these women should identify themselves as sex workers, instead of hiding it. Countries such as Cuba, believes that these sexual acts by women taking place for money, are shaming their country. It creates a bad name for them and it portrays the idea that the only reason people travel over there is for sex.