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Assignment 11

According to Amelia Cabeza’s article, there is sex tourism in many places around the world especially in developing countries like Cuba and the Dominican Republic. These two countries are actually very different from each other, but there are few things that they have in common. One being the fact that they were both occupied from the United States and the other is sex tourism is popular and used for similar purposes. Cabeza discusses that sexuality and sexual identity in the role of sex tourism can be defined with such certainty instead it should be looked upon as a theory that is growing. She along performs an experiment that contributes to the connection of sexuality and citizenship.

One woman from the article named Yolanda who is from the Dominican Republic. She is a young single mother of three that was struggling to make ends meet even when working at her uncle’s resort. She was constantly getting harassed from the male guests and was fed up with the condition she was presented with. However, this was how she met some of her boyfriends. She met one man from Germany that did take care of her but it seemed temporary for her, which was not good enough. Soon after, she met an Austrian who provided everything for her that she did not need to work. She was able to find a relationship that was long-lasting. Some of these sex workers were in it for money but there were some that were in it for pleasure or rather more of the security like citizenship elsewhere or providing for their family. This even occurred with male sex workers and they would engage in activities with gay men even though they were not gay themselves. This was because it was more remunerative.

Sex workers greatly contributed from this and cling on to tourists because they are the ones that are more likely to cooperate versus locals. This is because such countries like Cuba and the Dominican Republic are more known their exotic economy e.g. mafia controlled casinos, world famous dance clubs, etc. (Cabeza:994).