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Between love and money

In the book Between Love and Money by Amalia L. Cabezas, we learn that in places like Cuba and Dominican Republic, who struggle economically throughout their country, they turn to their most valuable possession in order to increase financially. In this case tourism would be their most prized possession being that their countries are beautiful and attract many people from much richer countries who love to travel. The people of these countries relied on tour related jobs in order to make a better income and it was mostly what they relied on to feed their families. Eventually the people found a way to increase their income and hopefully find a way to move to a better country. The people started rely more on sex tourism since it was more popular and it allowed them to establish relationships with the tourists. Men and women both participated as sex workers in order to establish relationships with people from richer countries in hopes of finding a way to gain citizenship in these countries or in other cases to find romance. Sex tourism is the act of traveling to other countries with less restrictions on prostitution and other sexual activities in order to take advantage of the lack of laws. As income started to increase through this type of tourism police officers and the government turned a blind eye since it was beneficial to the country. Although many knew that this was being done in order to raise their income and obtain other benefits women were still judged. It was unapproved for women to do this since women in these countries were not allowed to express sexuality in any way. On the other hand for men it was okay. Other than women people of darker complexion were also oppressed. They are stereotyped and incarcerated if they happen to appear to be sex workers. Sex tourism had definitely caused complications between citizenship and nationality because it is used as a way to leave their country and shows the true struggle of the people to make a decent income.