For love and money

Pruitt, Deborah Jane; Lafont, Suzanne

doi:10.1016/0160-7383(94)00084-0

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“…Starting from a point where women were virtually invisible in tourism research (Swain, 1995), a body of knowledge has slowly grown documenting various aspects of women's experiences with tourism. Studies of women as solo travellers (Jordan & Gibson, 2005;Wilson & Little, 2005), women as tourists within the family context (Davidson, 1996;Deem, 1996;Small, 2005), women engaged in romance (Jeffreys, 2003;Pruitt & LaFont, 1995;Taylor, 2001), and more recently in relation to sex in tourism (Berdychevsky, Gibson, & Poria, 2013) have provided insights using a gender aware framework as advocated by Kinnaird and Hall (1996). Gibson, Berdychevsky, and Bell (2012) focused on a growing trend in women's travel that of the girlfriend getaway (GGA).…”

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Understanding women's accommodation experiences on girlfriend getaways: a pragmatic action research approach

Khoo‐Lattimore

Gibson

2015

Current Issues in Tourism

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In the realm of women's travel, while the accommodation experiences and preferences of female business travellers have been investigated, little is known about the female leisure-traveller in this regard. This study investigates one of the growth sectors in women's travel -girlfriend getaways (GGAs), which are holidays taken by females with other females. An action research approach was employed to explore the accommodation needs of all these female travel groups in the Malaysian context. Using a five-stage approach which included in-depth interviews, a hotel stay for three groups of women on a GGA, focus groups and secondary data analysis, four themes were identified. These themes address feminine comforts, facilitating friendship, safety, and shopping and the use of discount promotions with GGA. Findings suggest that the needs of female leisure-travellers are distinct from those of women who travel on business. Recommendations for hotel management are made to enhance the GGA experience for women, notably providing spaces and activities to facilitate female bonding.

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Understanding women's accommodation experiences on girlfriend getaways: a pragmatic action research approach

Khoo‐Lattimore

Gibson

2015

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Studies from the Dominican Republic document how sex workers articulate their activities as efforts to get ahead ( progresar ), which sometimes culminate in love, marriage and possible immigration with their mostly European clients [35]. Other research on sex work in Caribbean resort towns shows there is a “general tendency to back away from overtly commodifying sexual relations”, with the purpose of preserving the dignity of the local participant [36]. In the case of Thailand, research suggests that most forms of sex work require previous social engagement and continuous involvement over time, although the level of economic and personal commitment can vary [37].…”

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Benefits and constraints of intimate partnerships for HIV positive sex workers in Kibera, Kenya

Benoit

Roth

Hallgrímsdóttir

et al. 2013

Int J Equity Health

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IntroductionResearch on the intimate partnerships of female sex workers (FSWs) tends to focus on the risks associated with these relationships. This paper takes as its starting point that the situation of FSWs is better understood by including knowledge of the benefits of their intimate partnerships. Specifically, we employ the conceptual framework provided by emergent research examining intimacy as a complex fusion of affective and instrumental dimensions among sex workers. This perspective allows us to frame information about FSWs’ intimate partnerships within a behaviour-structural approach that is helpful for identifying how intimate partnerships can be a source of both benefit as well as increased risk to FSWs.MethodsOur results are based on a mixed-methods study carried out in the summer of 2011 in Kibera, Kenya. We conducted face-to-face interviews (n=30) with a non-probability sample of FSWs stratified by age who self-identified as Human Immune Virus positive (HIV+). We asked about participants’ involvement in current and past intimate partnerships, and whether these relationships had a positive or negative impact on their health and well‒being.ResultsParticipants currently in intimate partnerships had fewer clients and thus lower incomes than those without intimate partnerships. Participants presently with partners were also more likely to receive some financial support from partners, to report lower intimate partner violence, and to narrate higher partner emotional support and greater assistance with medications. These participants were also more likely to have disclosed their sex work and HIV+ statuses to their partners. Intimate partnerships, on the other hand, showed increased risk of economic vulnerability and emotional dependence for FSWs. This became especially problematic for those participants in fragile relationships. Despite these variations, none of the differences between the two groups were statistically significant.ConclusionsIntimacy and transactional relations are bound up with one another and intersect with the structural realities and vulnerabilities; this is the case for sex workers in well-resourced and resourced-constrained countries alike. Rather than treating intimate partnerships as distinct from transactional relationships, FSWs’ relationships should be viewed on a continuum of risk and support.

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“…Campbell et al further suggest that women living in the West who routinely traverse the 'masculine landscape' of economic success while also attempting to maintain their traditional feminized gender roles are especially attracted to this juxtaposition of the exotic and the erotic. One German saying reports, 'Men go to Thailand and women go to Jamaica' (Pruitt and LaFont 1995). Pertinent to this review, the term Caribbean primarily refers to the nations located within a chain of islands surrounding the Caribbean Sea; the term Caribbean also refers to territories sharing a common history involving European colonization and slavery.…”

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“…This is where the walking, talking, and frequently dancing male dolls commonly known as the rent-a-dread or the rastitute make their living patrolling the beach and entertaining unattached visiting females' (Noakes 1995, 374). Racialized sexual stereotypes are propagated through folk songs such as The Big Bamboo or Stamina Daddy (who can perform all night) (De Albuquerque 1998, 94) as well as mass packaged and sold on t-shirts, postcards, and cartoons for tourist consumption (Pruitt and LaFont 1995).…”

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Gender stereotyping and sex trafficking: comparative review of research on male and female sex tourism

Richards

Reid

2015

Journal of Crime and Justice

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Within the growing body of scholarly research focused on sex trafficking, the existence of male victims is not often acknowledged. Current understanding of sex trafficking overlooks exploitation of male victims by restricting the phenomenon to a single exploiter-exploited gender pattern, that of males exploiting females. This comparative review aims to broaden this construction by focusing on the small but emerging phenomenon of female sex tourism in Caribbean countries that features a transposed exploiter-exploited gender pattern. Results of the review describe female sex tourists and male sex workers as well as the dynamics of their liaisons and compare these with the more typical and exploitive depictions used by scholarly researchers to describe male sex tourism. In addition, existing theoretical orientations used to understand sex work and sex trafficking, specifically applied to sex tourism, are examined. Lastly, recommendations are presented urging advancement of scholarly research toward understanding the evolving dynamics of sex tourism in regard to gender, race, and class.

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For love and money

Cited by 314 publications

References 5 publications

Understanding women's accommodation experiences on girlfriend getaways: a pragmatic action research approach

Understanding women's accommodation experiences on girlfriend getaways: a pragmatic action research approach

Benefits and constraints of intimate partnerships for HIV positive sex workers in Kibera, Kenya

Gender stereotyping and sex trafficking: comparative review of research on male and female sex tourism

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