Cultural Anthropology -Assignment

Running head: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Anthropology
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Introduction
Sex tourism, as widely known as a form of travel that is planned particularly for the
purpose of sex, normally inside any country in which prostitution is legal. Though, HIV and the
different other sexually transmitted diseases are generally more communal amongst prostitutes.
Sex tourism even has support for human trafficking, which is considered to be one the biggest
criminal industries in the world. Even if in any country prostitution is deemed legal, sex with
minor, human trafficking and child pornography are always considered as crimes. Anyone who
engages in these kinds of activities in any foreign country is still in the purview of the law of
their home country and would get prosecuted after they return. According to Gregory (2014), sex
work is just largely the byproduct of the global, exploitative capitalist system and if mentioned
specifically then the neoliberal economic policies that has been thrusted and forced upon the
Dominicould Republic by the western capitalist nations. What has been widely termed by
scholars as sex work is not just it and involves more than just sex for money interactions and
therefore could be seen as sexual-affective relations or tactical sex. From the point of view of a
woman this concept could reflect that women possess some amount of agency and they also
could move on to develop long term relationships that could further move on to extended
economic support and even marriage (Jacobs 2016). The study of sex work and these kind of
affective sexual relationships is very hard if attempted to study systematically. This study would
be attempting to study the intimate link between desire, transgression and risk with both female
and male sex tourism. With the help of examples from all over the world, issues of identity and
agency would be explored.

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Discussion
While standard mindset accomplices sex tourists with white, reasonably matured Western
men, there are more young men, men from Latin America, and even women sharing in this kind
of tourism. Since there is a broad assortment of classes of sex work, from cheap street walkers to
high-end escorts, tourists of all compensation levels could be clients.
Respectably matured, heterosexual Western women are ending up more progressive sex
tourists, particularly in Jamaica and Ghana. These women are ordinarily bulky or respected
sexually deplorable in their countries of beginning. Some even report having been related with
harming or disastrous associations already. They are consistently moved nearer on the beach by
"beach boys"- male sex workers. The men begin a "vacation romance," where in the midst of the
length of her stay they give her thought, warmth, and sex. Consequently, she gets him gifts and
drinks, and routinely gives extra financial recompense. A short vacation romance with one of
these men is a straightforward way to deal with feel recognized and crucial and delightful. In this
way, in any occasion among this creating people of female sex tourists, romance is an added
segment controlling their activities. A similar number of them are starting from baffling
associations and little achievement in the dating scene, their chance with the "beach boys" fills
an emptiness – physical intimacy, and in addition enthusiastic closeness moreover
(Bandyopadhyay 2013).
The aftereffects of sex tourism have monetary, social and furthermore broad prosperity
points of view. Disregarding the way that there are stresses of sex trafficking and child
exploitation, while trafficking and child sex exploitation do take place, they mean a tiny bit of
the business. Child exploitation in Thailand do take place and such human rights violations
cannot be repudiated. In a case study of sex tourism in Samoa, the child sex tourism industry is a

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noteworthy concern powered by destitution and family brokenness. While the potential for
financial points of interest for neighborhood individuals proposes sex tourism could profit
tenants of a country, there are moreover useful and unfavorable social results. As noted above,
sex tourists might have the ability to attempt sexually and fulfill dreams that they couldn't do at
home, either as a result of social norms or comfort. "Beach boys" are more stunning than female
sex workers to use condoms, perhaps in light of the fact that they don't for the most part name
their coordinated efforts with female tourists as instituting sex work. Thus, the two tourists and
"beach boys" have greater chances of getting sexually transmitted infections and after that
offering those infections to their distinctive associates. In ranges where sex work is unlawful, sex
workers also go up against perils of attack and theft with negligible real arrangement of activity –
as they could be caught or bothered for taking part in sex work in case they approach adjacent
law approval. To the extent fiscal outcomes, sex tourism could be a constructive power in a
making economy. Since many sex workers begin from obstructed establishments, sex tourism
allows them to pick up a basically higher wage than working distinctive occupations (Rivers-
Moore 2012).
Sex trafficking is a concern the hospitality and tourism industry faces far and wide. For
all intents and purposes all parts of the world, excluding for Antarctica, experiences sex tourism.
Prostitution is authentic in 49 countries around the world, 12 countries have limited laws
permitting a couple of parts of prostitution, and 39 countries have laws making prostitution
unlawful. The Netherlands is a champion among the most understood countries with legitimized
prostitution due to the Red Light District arranged in Amsterdam. Thailand is a famous sex
tourism objective for tourists from Australia, Europe, Japan, and the United States. Sex tourism
exists all through the globe with both honestly run affiliations and diverse associations whose