To browse Academia. The edited volume "Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters" critically examines the intersections of sexuality, ethics, and economic exchanges within various cultural contexts. Contributors analyze the complexities of erotic encounters, focusing on how these interactions challenge traditional notions of gender, identity, and power dynamics.
By employing case studies from different geographical locales, the authors reveal how transgressive sexual practices not only resist societal norms but also embody forms of agency within the constraints imposed by economic and social structures. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Tourism is a crucial economic sector in many Caribbean nations and the primary channel for direct interaction between the local population and visitors from around the world.
Although not typically recognized in official statistics, Caribbean bodies effectively transform into a tourist attraction that supports the livelihoods of low-income families and makes a significant contribution to the domestic economy of the islands.
Through an analysis of films set in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba, this article debates the intricate connections between pleasure economies, traditional gender roles, and familial structures, while it challenges the prevailing victim-victimizer narrative and provides a multifaceted perspective on sex tourism. Access by first-world tourists to international mobility and foreign currency creates a power imbalance in their interactions with Caribbean individuals. This imbalance worsens existing disparities related to gender, race, and age.
In this context, Holy Beasts La fiera y la fiesta, is examined as a notable example, satirically deconstructing conventional narratives of erotic commodification in the Caribbean. El acceso de los turistas del primer mundo a la movilidad internacional y a las divisas internacionales crea un desequilibrio de poder en sus interacciones con los individuos del Caribe. She has recently come to the end of an ESRC project on tourist-related prostitution in the Caribbean and has a particular research interest in the phenomenon of female sex tourism and the racialised, gendered and sexualised discourses that tourist women and local men use to organise, explain and justify their sexual interactions.
