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Assignment 11

In Amelia Cabezas article, “Between Love and Money,” she discusses how sexuality is connected to citizenship and how the common conceptions of sex work is used in both the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Cabezas analyzes how the term sex work basically means any practice of sex for the exchange of money but she explains how the term has a more complicated meaning than a sex transaction. Globalization creates the condition in which sexual acts and sexualized identities are develop. According to the article both Cuba and the Dominican Republic use tourism as the dominant strategy for economic growth. Sex tourism is considered the most significant social impact and is a growing phenomenon with social, political, and economic implications for countries that depend heavily on tourism. Cabezas discusses how there is a relationship between the increased in tourism and the increased in sex work.  According to Cabezas in many instances sex work goes beyond sexual acts in exchange for money and states some cases where many tourist were looking for romantic relationship, marriage and migration from these sex workers. Cabezas’s research on sex tourism complicate traditional views about citizenship and nationality. In area where tourism is big, people are judge base on their skin color. A dark skin female in this area could be consider to be a sex worker by simply going to the club while a white female isn’t. Race plays a huge role in these tourist areas.  Cabezas explains how several terms used in both the Dominican Republic and Cuba to describe men and women in the sex working industry. Terms like sanky panky, pingueros, and jineteras contributed to the diversification of relationships between tourist and hosts. Many of these men and women develop relationship with tourist in hope of getting marry and obtaining a visa.