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Society has portrayed women bodies with sex. Women are view as a sex object. For instance, naked women are display in music videos, on the cover of magazines or models depict during commercial all this to earn a salary. Many of these women sometimes sleep with their employer, not for love but simply for money, to help support themselves and family.

Cabezas in her article, “Between Love and Money” indentified during her research than many Cuban and Dominican women traded their bodies to tourist in search of money. Many of these women were destitute and became a prostitute to provide the necessities for their families. In addition, many women migrate to work in tourist resort where there befriend, a visitor in hope that their affair can continue once the tourist return to his homeland to sends money back. Many women form relationship with these men simply for romance. Consequently, many tourists travel to these countries for prostitute and pleasure not for love.

Cabezas wants us to see the stereotype many women face being a Cuban or Dominicans women. Tourist thinks of these women as prostitute and nothing more. Automatically when a tourist sees a native woman, they quickly offer money for sex. Visitors believe that women are objects and nothing more. Woman moral, values and norms are disregard. Consequently, the norm of marriage is descending rapidly while the cultural norm of prostitution is ascending. Sex tourism is the only means of survival in this tense economy while the latent function of prostitution is helping to grow the economy. Sex tourism help worker to get by and to get ahead: recreation, consumption, travel, migration and marriage. Cabezas wants us to see how poverty can stigmatize a group or society and what was once a self-respected country becomes label as a deviant where civilian would do anything just for a mint. Also she wants us to see how foreign money have such great influence on poor countries and being from another country provide wealth to its civilian and why immigrants would leave their country in search of wealth and opportunity