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Caribbean Pleasure Industry

Name: Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 04548183
Price: 38.61 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Padilla
ISBN: 9780226644363

Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic

Mark Padilla

Language

English

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Libristo code: 04548183

Publishers The University of Chicago Press, August 2007

In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on internationa... Full description

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In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, "Caribbean Pleasure Industry" shifts the focus to the men. Drawing on his ground-breaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures, and new challenges for HIV prevention. In fluid prose, Padilla analyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as "normal" hetero-sexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. Padilla's exceptional ability to describe the experiences of these men will interest anthropologists, but his examination of bisexuality and tourism as much-neglected factors in the HIV/AIDS epidemic makes this book essential to anyone concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.