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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic

What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic

Brennan, Denise

Paperback

Series: Latin America Otherwise

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 0822332973
ISBN13: 9780822332978
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 14 2004
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women move to Sosúa to pursue sex work and describes how sex tourists, primarily Europeans, come to Sosúa to buy sex cheaply and live out racialized fantasies. For the sex workers, Brennan explains, the sex trade is more than a means of survival--it is an advancement strategy that hinges on their successful performance of love. Many of these women seek to turn a commercialized sexual transaction into a long-term relationship that could lead to marriage, migration, and a way out of poverty.

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