Guidelines: Make sure to answer each heading.
Mention all major points in the article that pertains to the headings. Write a
minimum of one paragraph for each heading. Answer these headings for each article. We will use the
questions section to spur conversations about the readings.
Group Presentation Sheet
Author / title / year:
Julia
O’Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor; Fantasy Islands: Exploring
the Demand for Sex Tourism from the book Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex
Work in the Caribbean; 1999
Author’s main position:What
is the author trying to argue? What is the author trying to contribute? What is
their perspective? Why did the author write the piece in the first place?
·
The article begins by saying that men
(predominatly white western men from the US, Canada, and even Europe) seek out
prostitutes in third world countries (the non-white “other”), i.e. Ibiza,
Dominican Republic, and Southeast Asia, and pay them to help them act out their
repressed sexual desires and fantasies that white women in Western culture do
not normally engage in or support
Arguments in support of main position: What
reasoning does the author use to support their main position?
·
The main desire these men are trying to
feed is one that is out of the norm or exotic to them—they believe they need to
obtain a woman they can have control over, even if they are paying for her in
the end
·
Most of the time, they believe they have
to obtain their needs from a women who is different from them—a woman of a
different race (the “Other”)
·
The reasoning the authors use to support
their main position is the demand for sex tourism is inextricably linked to
discoursed that naturalize a celebrate inequalities structured along lines of
class, gender, race/Otherness—in other words, discourses that reflect and help
to reproduce a profoundly hierarchical model of human sociality
Evidence to support arguments: What
statistical information, historical events, or case examples does the author
use in backing up their arguments?
·
In 1995, the ECPAT (End Child
Prostitution in Asian Tourism) commissioned this research on the identity,
attitudes, and motivations of clients of child prostitutes; the fieldwork was
done in tourist areas such as South Africa, India, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Cuba,
and the Dominican Republic
·
Evidence the author gives is although sex
tourists are a heterogeneous group in terms of their background characteristics
and specific interests, they share a common willingness to embrace this hierarchical
model and a common pleasure in the fact that their Third World tourism allows
them either to affirm their dominant position within a hierarchy of gendered,
racialized, and economic power or to adjust their own position upward in that
hierarchy
How does this article relate to the
class:What is found in the article that relates to the
topics in class? How does the article tie into other readings that we have had?
·
Intersectionality comes into play when
the authors discuss the need these men feel for women of another race when it
comes to sexual activities
3 Questions that pertain to the article: What
does the article leave open ended? What wasn’t clear in the article? What
questions did you find interesting in the article? How could you summarize this
article in question form?
·
The authors stated that across the
board, white men as well as black men do not all recognize what they are doing
as prostitution or sex tourism, but if sex tourism is an issue that objectifies
woman as an object to be controlled under men’s power overall, how do we curb
this issue and is it even possible to curb sex tourism at this point in time?
·
They leave open the current research
project they are working on (Economic and Social Research Council), which
builds on this research through a focus on prostitution and the informal
tourist economy
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The questions I found interesting
