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'''Tourism and Eroticism/Sexuality'''
From Jean-Francois STASZAK:
"Dear Nelson,
About the title. In our view, the title of the conference has not yet been discussed, and it could be one of the issues of our meeting Thursday.
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Sincerely,
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Jean-François Staszak
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From: Nelson Graburn, for TSWG
Tourism and Eroticism/Sexuality Conference: Correspondence
Suggestions and Input:
Conference Parameters
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- rencontrer l'alter ego dans les clubs de vacances, la drague entre touristes, etc.
- tourisme et érotisation/libération (sexuelle)
- la sexualité des couples de touristes
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J-F Staszak and E Sohier.
SEX and TOURISM
International Conference, Geneva, June 2015
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2. DESTINATIONS
Tourist visiting of red-light districts, from Patpong (Bangkok) (Manderson, 1992) to De Wallen (Amsterdam) includes prostitution but isn't limited to it. These quarters - as with certain gay quarters? - have become tourist attractions, visited by millions of tourists who don't resort to the offers of prostitutes. (Graburn, 1983). Among these, who exactly are the sex tourists? What are the practices of the visitors? Who visits these quarters and how? What is the victors' discourse about their practices? How are we to understand this tourist behavior? In what ways do [professional] tourism operators take charge of these visits? Are the red-light districts of Paris, Tokyo or Hamburg visited in the same way as seascapes [seasides] in developing countries?
The red-light districts are, furthermore, not the only tourism destinations marked by sexuality. Certain types of spaces (the beach, the island, the desert, the Tropics in general) and the trip itself may be eroticized. Certain destinations (Venice) are favored by romantic couples. Others (Polynesia) are favored for wedding [honeymoon] trips. What makes a site erotic? What tourist practices are tied to this eroticization?
3. PRACTICES
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Some works insist on the manner in which they consider the sexuality of (potential) clients. But the sexuality of tourists is an issue in many tourism destinations, where local standards in this differ from those of the travelers.
How does is confrontation manifested from the point of view of the tourists as well as of the locals
4. ACTORS, "INTERMEDIARIES," AND NETWORKS
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Ethical positions are nonetheless different, even divergent, if not in conflict among different geographical and historical contexts. Their analysis forms a significant entry into the understanding of the relationships of domination (between persons, between social and cultural groups, between North and South, between colonizers and colonized) (Hall, 1992), of relationships between sexes, in the evolution of ethical and normative positions, and in questions of local and international government.
Bibliographical References Cited:
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Cohen, Eric (1982), « Thai Girls and Farang Men: The Edge of Ambiguity », Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 9, p. 403-428.
Frigault, Louis-Robert, « Tourisme sexuel et virtualité : le voyage dans le cyberespace »,
Graburn, N. H (1983), « Tourism and Prostitution », Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 10, p. 110-116.
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Ryan, Chris, et Amber Martin (2001), « Tourist and Strippers: Liminal Theater », Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 28, p. 140-163.
*I translated "toursisme sexuelle" as "sex tourism" rather than "sexual tourism," in that its usage here appears to imply a narrower rather than broader concept.
TO: Nelson Graburn and the Berkeley TSWG
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(1) Already established sex partners travel together and use a 'romantic' restaurant, or city (Paris), or beach, as an aphrodisiac, or just enjoy freedom of expression that is not possible when the kids are around, We are in the realm of a kind of sex tourism conditioned by normal overground imaginaries such as the long standing alignment of romanticism and orientalism. Question: How is this type of "sex tourism" different from and similar to the myriad other ways couples enhance everyday sex at home. (See Simoni, "Sex, love, and intimacy: emotions, economy and morality")
(2) Trips conceived for the primary purpose of 'hooking up' with other like-minded tourists—e.g., Spring Break, English young people at Gap year 'Raves,' in S.E. Asia, or Swetha's village in India.
(3) Voyages of discovery across legal / moral gradients or shifts—i.e., curiosity driven travel from a place where certain specific sexual standards and practices are forbidden by law or custom to a place where they are permitted. Visits to "Red Light" districts by tourists who may not purchase sexual services. We could fit quite a lot of anthropological investigation into this type. (See Simoni, "Stereotypes of the sexual and erotic Other.")
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See for instance
Jolly, M. & Manderson L. 1997. Introduction : Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the Pacific. In L. Manderson & M. Jolly (eds.). Sites of
Simoni, V. “L’interculturalité comme justification: Sexe ‘couleur locale’ dans la Cuba touristique”, in Anne Lavanchy, Fred Dervin, & Anahy Gajardo (eds), Anthropologies de l’interculturalité, 197-225. Paris: L’Harmattan.
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with contemporary fiction from Dominican Republic.
Heidi Kaspar- I support all the former comments in broadening the conference's topic to the myriad forms and processes seduction takes and entails. Sex tourism still could be a topic as such for one session within the conf (or two or three - I have no idea how big this conf will be).
David Picard - the more interesting to me is clearly based on the debates by Bataille and Sontag, both suggesting wonderfully evocative methodological tools (automatic writing) and links between pysochanalysis and anthropology.
To link this to tourism, you may want to discuss the "model" of north-south divisions of roles and tasks an author like Michel Houellebecq provocatively suggests in his novel Platform is a good departure point. Also the recent work by scholars like Jennifer Cole (ex UCB) and Valerio Simoni on what happens when the holiday flirt becomes more permanent, i.e. when tourists engage in more solid relationships with their vacation flirt, regularly returning or taken them with them.
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I would not try to wash it down too much, by calling the event "Sex Tourism", too placative in my view; keep it theoretically challenging!
Jennifer Cole authour of:
The person I immediately think of with respect to this issue is my student, George Meiu (meiu@uchicago.edu), who just graduated last year from anthropology and who is now at Concordia. He works in Samburu country in Kenya and has written quite a lot about white northern European women who travel there on sex tourism; I think he's teaching a ton but he's very good and in touch with this world and may know people.
Clothilde Sabre - tourism and eroticism are quite related and this topic is discussed in many ways, from many perspectives. Have you heard about the French writer Michel Houellebecq? He wrote a novel about sexual tourism in Thaïland (Plateforme), in which he borrowed some references from Rachid Amirou, I think it reflect a lot of representations that cross society about tourism.
A bientot j'espère,
His subsequent novel, Plateforme (2001), earned him a wider reputation. It is a romance told mostly in the first-person by a 40 year-old male arts administrator, with many sex scenes and an approving attitude towards prostitution and sex tourism. The novel's depiction of life and its explicit criticism of Islam , together with an interview its author gave to the magazine Lire, led to accusations against Houellebecq by several organisations, including France's Human Rights League, the Mecca-based World Islamic League and the mosques of Paris and Lyon. Charges were brought to trial, but a panel of three judges, delivering their verdict to a packed Paris courtroom, acquitted the author of having provoked 'racial' hatred, ascribing Houellebecq's opinions to the legitimate right of criticizing religions.
A recurrent theme in Houellebecq's novels is the intrusion of free-market economics into human relationships and sexuality. Whatever (Original title, Extension du domaine de la lutte, which literally translates as "extension of the domain of the struggle") alludes to economic competition extending into the search for relationships. As the book says, a free market has winners and losers, and the same applies to relationships in a society that does not enforce monogamy. Westerners of both sexes already seek exotic locations and climates by visiting developing countries in organized trips. In Platform, the logical conclusion is that they would respond positively to sex tourism organized and sold in a corporate and professional fashion.
Lina Tegtmeyer - panels of male/females and teenagers in tourism imagery - not sure if there should be regional/national/cultural divisions....a friend from Morocco talked about Ryan air adverstisement -set on a global scale, one image for all (that is cheaper for editorial and marketing design, clearly) - and she said that the meaning of naked shoulders in an Islamic nation are blasphemic. She talked to someone from Ryan air; they didn’t care/know how to respond.
That would be looking at the cultural meaning in the everyday culture of tourism imagery of "naked" or dressed bodies.
The other option I am thinking is to simply do a sort of account of how the male/female/trans/...body is staged in tourism imagery and focus on the mise-en-scene. ...possibly with the theoretical background of performance theory or film .... (> e.g. Laura Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema").
That can go together with the re-presentation/staging of bodies and how they signify certain national identities and tourism landscapes (bikini chicks as visual signifier for fun at the beach - the virgin and the untouched landscape - the authentic tourist experience with the exoticized authentic local to serve the tourists needs -....).
also suggest a panel on ideas/imaginaries of eroticism and race, racism, colonial host-guest ideas in tourism then and now. (A person still around to invite here might be Paul Gilroy, not sure if that would smash the circle, but as you know, I am always tempted to bridge tourism studies with other disciplines...!).
In short: visual representations of bodies and masculinity/femininity as signifiers in context of tourism industry (post-Fordist service industry and image production) and tourism as cultural practice (image consumption/production)
Yujie Zhu.
thanks for the continuous updates about the event.
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7. Gay parade (gay festival) as art, festival, and demonstration/procession, and their interaction with the public audience/tourists
These are only some ideas without thorough studying. So please neglect them if you feel inappropriate.
Comments from two local scholars.
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From:
Dear Dean and Nelson,
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wish I had had it a few months ago while working on a "Gender and
Development" Handbook article on tourism. Of course, I would like to have
focus on service providers and researchers, as well as on tourists.
is a paragraph from my article that shows my not too developed thinking on
gender and sexualities continuum in tourism.
Take care,
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contractual to coercive in tourism markets. Scholars have used sexuality,
both literal and metaphorical, as a framework for articulating the
exploitative aspects of tourism.
the prototypical rich North– poor South tourism dynamic can be thought of
through the metaphor of the rich male purchasing or taking the services of
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hierarchies, while documenting their existence and potential for
transformation. An increasingly nuanced literature on the subject, for
example Brennan’s (2004)
that although the overall dynamic is exploitative, the women involved have
considerable agency and the men are not uniformly predatory on an
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this continuum, with some marketing aimed at gay and lesbian communities.
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Neil Carr - : " having written and researched on a variety of issues related to sex (as broadly defined and therefore including eroticism) and tourism and leisure I'd certainly be happy to serve as a member of your scientific committee. I'd also be happy to suggest a topic: "love and romance in tourism"
Phillipe Foret - Title: Transtopia in eroticism and tourism: the US Navy, Hong Kong and Macau in the 1950s.
Ulli Linke - Sensual life of the State –
Arthur Lizie - sustainable tourism and links between food/body and tourism.
Jared McCormick - demographics of men in Beirut as a regional hotspot for sex tourism and playground of the wealthily/wild.
I was thinking how to approach a panel and what might be useful is to synthesis and put in conversation a few "case studies" or comparisons that can inform one another. I feel like I keep seeing work that examines a "new" geographic area X, Y, or Z and hopes to unpack some of the tensions of Eroticism/Tourism but then stops there - as if the existence of "sex tourism," in and of itself, is interesting.
Also a strength of Eroticism/Tourism is the uncertainty and vagueness of both terms - their tenuous and overlapping relationship to one another.
▲Also a strength of Eroticism/Tourism is the uncertainty and vagueness of both terms - their tenuous and overlapping relationship to one another. Something that I keep trying to grapple with in my work are the relationships between tourists, diasporic movements, "migrations" and how they blur into one another.
Do be in touch and look forward to seeing how things develop.
Rafiq Pirzada - "Erotic Mysticism and its historical importation into tourism as tourist attractions and performances." I have in mind
Salazar, Noel - the material I've gathered on this topic while doing fieldwork in both Indonesia and Tanzania
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Swetha Vijayakumar - The Khajuraho Experience: Following Flâneurs in Phantasmagoric Temples
Gayathri (Gee) Wijesinghe - Sexual hospitality
Victoria Vantoch takes us on a fascinating journey into the golden era of air travel. The Jet Sex explores the much-mythologized stewardess within the context of the Cold War, globalization, and the emerging culture of glamour to reveal how beauty and sexuality were critical to national identity and international politics.
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▲Houellebecq Platforme 2001
Dear Pr Graburn,
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Docteur en ethnologie
Université Lille 1 – Clersé
His subsequent novel, Plateforme (2001), earned him a wider reputation. It is a romance told mostly in the first-person by a 40 year-old male arts administrator, with many sex scenes and an approving attitude towards prostitution and sex tourism. The novel's depiction of life and its explicit criticism of Islam, together with an interview its author gave to the magazine Lire, led to accusations against Houellebecq by several organisations, including France's Human Rights League, the Mecca-based World Islamic League and the mosques of Paris and Lyon. Charges were brought to trial, but a panel of three judges, delivering their verdict to a packed Paris courtroom, acquitted the author of having provoked 'racial' hatred, ascribing Houellebecq's opinions to the legitimate right of criticizing religions.
A recurrent theme in Houellebecq's novels is the intrusion of free-market economics into human relationships and sexuality. Whatever (Original title, Extension du domaine de la lutte, which literally translates as "extension of the domain of the struggle") alludes to economic competition extending into the search for relationships. As the book says, a free market has winners and losers, and the same applies to relationships in a society that does not enforce monogamy. Westerners of both sexes already seek exotic locations and climates by visiting developing countries in organized trips. In Platform, the logical conclusion is that they would respond positively to sex tourism organized and sold in a corporate and professional fashion.
Bestiality Tourism/Animal Sex Tourism,
This topic was somewhat in a discussion in Germany and the EU recently since the German government has published plans to change the laws regarding zoophilia (or bestiality) and/or sexual intercourse with animals. Both are lawful in Germany and many other European countries. There had been many rumors in Germany and other European countries about Animal Brothels and Animal Tourism with so called 'Zoos' as special-interest tourists. It is a very secret market .... but psychologist tell us that it is a market (esp. with
There is an interesting article regarding animal laws and societal implications of bestiality "The Unjustified Prohibition Against Bestiality: Why the Laws in Opposition Can Find No Support in the Harm Principle", available online at http://jael-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Issue-2-Final.pdf
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Do you remember the "pro and contra waves" caused by the Sundance Film Festival 2007 Winners Film "Zoo"; cp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(movie).
An interesting source of information may be ESDAW (http://www.esdaw.eu/bestiality)
About Animal Sex Tourism cases in Sweden see e. g. http://www.thelocal.se/15610/20081111/
More research-linked information on bestiality is also available at
And for criminal research on bestiality see e. g.:
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Amaris Montes
The “Bad” Girls of Thailand: Deconstructing the Discourses of ‘False Consciousness’ and ‘Free Agent’ of Sex Workers in Thailand
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Faculty Sponsor: Nelson Graburn
More Bibliography:
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“Sex: The Power of the Powerless? The Use of Sex as a Spousal Influence Strategy in Vacation Purchase Decisions”
DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2010.520946
Ya'arit Bokek-Cohena* & Sabina Lissitsab
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This study is the first to test empirically the common notion regarding sexual manipulation as a spousal influence strategy during couples' vacation purchasing decisions. The study examined whether the use of sex as a spousal influence strategy is more prevalent among individuals who have less marital power than their spouses. Marital power is treated as two-dimensional: the first dimension is objective and composed of actual economic resources; the second is subjective and composed of feelings. A sample of 192 married or cohabiting men evaluated their own and their partner's use of sex as a means of exerting influence during a vacation decision process. Female subjects with low levels of subjective marital power and male subjects with low levels of objective marital power used sex as a spousal influence strategy at a higher frequency. The study found that during a vacation decision process, the use of sex as a spousal influence strategy is impacted by the marital power balance between the spouses. Second, economic power is not the dominant factor that affects the use of this influence strategy; rather, it is interpersonal power that is influential. The findings imply that sex may be used as a power strategy by the powerless.
Journal of Tourism History
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DOI:10.1080/1755182X.2012.671500
C. Michael Halla* pages 121-122
Journal of Tourism History
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Roux, Sébastien 2011. No money, no honey. Économies intimes du tourisme sexuel en Thaïlande. Paris: Éditions La Découverte. 276 p., 22€, ISBN: 9782707167125
Sex Tourism in Africa: Kenya’s Booming Industry
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Booming Industry”, Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space,
Place and Environment, 14:3, 528-531
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Hashim, N. H., Murphy, J., & Muhamad Hashim, N. 2007. Islam and Online Imagery on Malaysian Tourist Destination Websites. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 12(3), http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue13/hashim.html.
MacLeod, Scott. 2014. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/pacific-salmon-uc-berkeley-sorbonne.html Pacific Salmon: UC Berkeley / Sorbonne 'Tourism and Eroticism/Sexuality' conference June 2015 in Switzerland, Google Translate and Hangouts for communications?, UC Berkeley Harbin talk in November 2012, Harbin book, Money's book "Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation" (Oxford 1988), WUaS's Tourism Studies, Sexuality, and Erotism, wiki subjects, Berkeley Meetings - Tourisme et Erotisme / Eroticism and Tourism Conference Announcement, SEX TOURISM IN COLONIAL CASABLANCA: Bousbir, the Quartier Réservé, Added a great amount of 'Tourism and Eroticism' Conference Materials (and a new section by this name to the SUBJECT TEMPLATE) to the Tourism Studies' wiki subject page at WUaS, and this blog entry, as well]. February 5. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/02/pacific-salmon-uc-berkeley-sorbonne.html
Mortensen, Lena and George Nicholas. 2010. [http://www.academia.edu/316891/Riding_the_Tourism_Train_Navigating_Intellectual_Property_Heritage_and_Community-Based_Approaches_to_Cultural_Tourism_with_L._Mortensen_ Riding the Tourism Train?
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