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Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements
ISBN-13: 9780252037931
Hardcover
224 Pages

Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements

by Erica Lorraine Williams

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ISBN-139780252037931
ISBN-100252037936
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
Published2013-11-08
LanguageEnglish
FormatHardcover
Pages224

About This Book

For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships. Erica Lorraine Williams explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia from the perspectives of foreign tourists, tourism industry workers, sex workers who engage in liaisons with foreigners, and Afro-Brazilian men and women who contend with foreigners' stereotypical assumptions about their licentiousness. She shows how the Bahian state strategically exploits the touristic desire for exotic culture by appropriating an eroticized blackness and commodifying the Afro-Brazilian culture in order to sell Bahia to foreign travelers.