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assignment 11

In the Article by Amelia Cabezas, she is talking about countries benefit from sex industry all over the world but especially Dominican Republic and Cuba. The two countries are different each other, but they are similar at some points. Both countries used to be under control of the United States. She approaches to “sex tourism” in different points of view which is from the tourists who pays for sex and from the sex workers who get money for having sex with the tourists. It is so easy to be a sex worker in those countries. If you are struggling with living, you will easily consider to be a sex worker because that the only way to get out of poorness.  For the workers, the labor helps people to get out of the counties where women only can get enough money by doing that job to survive.  For example, there is one lady in this article who was a young mother of three children. She was working as a sex worker and the working condition was terrible. However, she had some opportunity to get helped by that job. She found some boyfriends who helped her financially. Some people actually find men taking them to their home countries. For the government, they knows allowing sex industries are immoral, but they have to pretend what is going on in that kind of industry. For the tourists, they are traveling to the countries because there are less restrictions on prostitution or other sexual industries. It is hard for the workers fell in love with them because the tourists are just coming to those countries to have fun, and they are not looking for nothing serious. I think it is very important to think about the country or people’s situation and understand the complicated relationship between citizens, industries, and the government instead of just judge them if it is morally bad or not.