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Sex tourism is the practice of traveling to a different nation or area for the primary purpose of engaging in sexual activity. In many cases, this practice seeks to indulge tastes or appetites that are considered unacceptable at home, or else simply to avoid prostitution laws in the tourist’s home country.

My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist provides a raw, unflinching look at a new development in the sex tourism industry: the growth of the “24-hour girlfriend”. The documentary focuses on the sex tourism industry in Venezuela and Thailand, where visiting tourists (typically men) can essentially “buy” a woman to act as the love of their life for the duration of their stay.

The documentary tells the story of the women who are bought and sold and gives them a voice to tell their own version of the vacation that these foreign men crave.

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British women are travelling to The Gambia for relationships with black men — I have learnt to not judge them

Seyi rhodes was intrigued by the british women he met when first visiting gambia in 2007. now, he's returned to investigate those looking for sex.

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I first visited The Gambia over ten years ago. It was my last stop on a short backpacking adventure around West Africa and I never forgot the experience. So much so that I wanted to unpack some of the things I saw when I first visited the country, so this year I went back to make a documentary for Channel 4 called Sex On The Beach .

Back in 2007 The Gambia was becoming known as a tourist destination for Brits looking for cheap holidays with guaranteed winter sun. Nobody told me the other bit: The Gambia is a place where an older white woman could easily have sex with a young black man, as long as she showers him with gifts and money. It’s a sex tourism destination, but this time, for women.

In Gambia, the bars are full of white women mingling with black men half their age. When a white woman walks down the beach, muscular young men in tiny shorts ‘jog’ alongside her, smiling and trying to make eye contact, begging her to, “Let me be your friend, let me take you out, show you a good time.” It doesn’t matter how old she is – in fact, the older she is, the more attention she gets.

On my first trip I was treated like a local – and not just any local. People thought I was a “bumster” – local slang for a beach boy who chases white women. I was stopped from entering certain hotels and restaurants as the security guards were always conscious that their establishment was a place where women would come to escape the male attention they get outside. So if I was allowed in, it would only be at a white persons request. Even showing my British passport didn’t change that. I’d be told the hotel was for ‘guests only’. Of course my white friends weren’t guests, but they would stroll in and be greeted with massive smiles.

BANJUL, GAMBIA - 2018/03/11: A beach in Serrekunda, Gambia, where many young men go to run or play football, and locals nicknamed "bumsters" are also known to wait to hassle tourists. The nation of Gambia is situated in west africa. In 2017 it has a population of just over 2 millions. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The British tourists I met on my trip were brazen. At one point I was standing in a bar and a pair of hands pulled me backwards by the waist. I fell into the lap of a drunk British woman in her late 50s. She was giggling to her friends, “I like this one!” I was frozen in place, wondering what the hell possessed this woman to think she could grab at me like that. Within seconds her hand was up my t-shirt, having a grope, and then she offered to buy me a drink. This happened years before #MeToo , but I knew what had just happened.

The Gambia was once a major slave-trading port and The British Empire used this region for its people. Black people could be bought, sold, shipped abroad, raped and forced to work – legally. By British standards at the time, slavery was already seen as morally wrong and was outlawed in the UK, but it was still allowed in Gambia. In many ways the same convention still applies. Women from Britain – where there are thousands of young, single black men – choose instead to come to Gambia looking for sex and a relationship with a black man. In Gambia, a British woman’s money and power buys her things she could never have at home.

In the years since my first trip the phenomenon of female sex tourists in Gambia has become a staple of British tabloids. The focus is always on the women: their sex lives, their finances and their feelings. The men are never interviewed, but they are described as love-cheats, rats and scammers.

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I went back to make a documentary about all this because I wanted to meet those men and find out what motivates them, without letting myself think I know their lives better than they do. I’m now old enough to know what it feels like to be lonely and to get older but still feel young at heart. I can see how women over 50 become almost invisible to society and appreciate what that must feel like. I’ve met male sex tourists in places like Thailand and I’ve heard their stories: divorce, loneliness, feelings of inadequacy all ‘solved’ by a relationship with a local woman half their age.

Some of the people I met might look like they fit neatly into a box – ‘sex tourist’, ‘scammer’ or ‘victim’ – but once I’d taken the time to understand them I could see that they’re were all works-in-progress. From the woman who got engaged to a man she’d known for three months to the 34-year-old man who says he’s proud to be engaged to an 86-year-old. People don’t always know if they’re looking for love, sex, money or power. In reality they’re all interlinked, and you can only see that by diving into peoples lives and looking – with no judgement.

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Inside Thailand’s Child Sex Tourism Trade

101 East investigates Thailand’s sex tourism trade and how vulnerable children are exploited.

Thailand’s multibillion-dollar sex tourism trade is thriving again after its shutdown during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

With the country’s borders open again, tourists are flocking from around the world.

Despite prostitution being illegal, bar girls in the coastal city of Pattaya can earn triple the average wage, drawing workers from the country’s poor rural provinces.

But police say children are increasingly targeted in the city’s red-light district.

101 East investigates Thailand’s sex tourism trade and how it exploits vulnerable children.

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Sex Tourism: The Largest Free-market in Cuba

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HAVANA TIMES — When the Cuban government began promoting the tourism industry in the 1990s, it was sex tourism that jump-started that initiative.

Twelve years into the 21st century, they have managed to transition to other more conventional forms of tourism. Eco tourism, family tourism and luxury tourism are gradually coming to occupy prominent places in the industry.

Some people believe the success of these alternative approaches over sex tourism responds to the government’s refusal to legalize prostitution in Cuba. But such a statement might seem pretty naïve.

How many things are banned in this country for us to be surprised by the illegal status of the oldest of all trades? But with this being the case, the comment about other approaches makes a lot of sense.

In informal conversations with housekeepers in hotels, I learned that many tourists travel to Cuba for the sole purpose of having sex with male or female Cubans. About a third of the guests who stay at the hotels where these maids work are single men traveling with groups of friends.

They don’t come with a lot of luggage, nor are they are interested in nature or Cuban society. The lack of interest in these other themes becomes clearer when they have their first opportunity.

The international impact generated by the boom in sex tourism in Cuba in the 1990s had a connotation that was more political than economic.

Today, when the authoritarian bureaucracy that governs the country is challenged by issues of human rights and respect for freedom of thought, the interest of the international media in sex tourism in Cuba is no different from what takes place with any other Caribbean island.

It is no longer raised exclusively to undermine the Cuban government.

Nonetheless, sex tourism continues to demonstrate the relevance of what’s foreign in the Cuban imagination. This is an issue that would show up on the X-rays of many social, political and economic realities as being as explosive as those that “shocked” the international public in the ‘90s.

If today there still survives in anonymity what was previously debated, this is because sex tourism in Cuba is being instituted as a legitimate economic institution.

This is why I was not surprised that the maids who I interviewed were calling for the legalization of prostitution in Cuba. In the near future, we could wind up seeing such an appeal receiving political momentum in the offices of the Ministry of Tourism.

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I was born in cuba, and have been living in the US for the past 18 years. It’s very sad the situation that most cubans live. Sadly, prostitution is a common way to barely make a living in cuba. It’s a though case to manage, because even if prostitution was legalized and regulated, it will most likely not work as intended due to the corruption within the law enforcement officials who are incharged of enforcing laws and regulations. Cuba’s complete government system has to change radically, and the economy has to raise for prostitution to decrease. Although i believe it will never end, atleast reduce to it being a way to make easy money vs a necessity to make ends meet.

“In informal conversations with housekeepers in hotels, I learned that many tourists travel to Cuba for the sole purpose of having sex with male or female Cubans. About a third of the guests who stay at the hotels where these maids work are single men traveling with groups of friends.”

Do have any data to back this up? I’ve stayed in large resorts and casas alike and just by scanning the demographics, one third of the large hotel guests are not single males, are you kidding?More than 2/3 are couples, while the rest are made up of singles and families with kids.

Sorry, but most of us singles, male or female, do not travel to Cuba to have sex with you. We go for the beach, music, ambiance, weather….I don’t know what makes Cubans think they’re so hot.

What a truly bizarre comment you make!

Usually you write against capitalist exploitation of poor people, but when the topic is prostitution, you seem all for it. I’m sure there are a few people who enjoy working as a prostitute, but the vast majority of prostitutes, whether in Cuba or elsewhere do not. It’s a job of necessity, not choice. The failure of the Cuban government to provide real jobs and economic security is what is pushing the growth of prostitution.

For an interesting, and raw, depiction of prostitution in Cuba today, I recommend the novel, “Tropical Animal” by Pedro-Juan Gutierrez. It’s not a happy life.

Sex tourism in Cuba is, by appearances, similar to what takes place in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Mexico. The striking difference in Cuba is that your average prostitute or ¨jinetera¨ in Cuba is likely far better educated. She (or he) could very well be a doctor, or a lawyer or engineer by education. Yet, because of the failed economic system in Cuba, this professional chooses to earn in one day with one ¨client¨ what would not be earned in two months working for Fidel. Long live Fidel indeed.

Actually, Yenisel, the philosopher Will Durant once established that, contrary to what most of us believe, the oldest profession is not prostitution, but midwifery. But your point is clear.

Prostitution is a product of social conditions. It should not be criminalized; it should be legalized and regulated.

The way to discourage, and hopefully someday to eliminate it is to do away with the social conditions that produce it. This ought to be a no brainner, but authorities all over the world usually take the criminalization approach. It is certainly true in the US.

The draft program of the US Cooperative Republic Movement puts forward, as part of its 20-plus Bill of Transformation, a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing citizens the legal rights of both sexual prostitution and its patronage. At the same time it severely criminalizes the sexual exploitation and pornographic representation of children; and requires strict regulation of the so-called sex trades.

What a bias opinion… Looks like you belong to “tea party” kind of people throwing childish accusations pushing pointless blame game around. Influx of turism induces all other business and social activities. Prostitution is just one of many. In fact – it’s one of the signs of tourism economy recovering. So don’t worry – be happy! Long live Fidel! 🙂

It is tragic, and not a little ironic, that many Cubans are compelled by hunger to prostitute themselves to foreign tourists. It was to rid their island of this sort of economic exploitation that the Cuban people fought a revolution. Now the regime relies upon the foreign currency prostitution brings in.

Interesting to read some acknowledgement of the growing issue of sex tourism in Cuba. The fact is that prostitution will never go away. Some countries around the world have woken up and realised that rather than trying to sweep the problem under the rug, they have indeed legalised and regulated it. The result is a noticeable drop in the rate of sexual assaults as well as rates of STI infections, as in the Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, etc. Even Canada is currently studying how to possibly regulate it in the future and put protections in place for sex workers. Of course going into that line of work should not be encouraged, but forcing people to go underground will only make it a more dangerous act for those who might have no other way to earn a living.

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Santo Domingo.- “The Dominican Republic has become a point of access for Western sex tourism,” is the title of a documentary produced by a British chain that exposes the prostitution of minors on the country’s beaches and tourist areas.

During the visit to the country, one of the reporters conducted a social experiment: a man was placed on a beach and in less than five minutes, he was also sold drugs, was offered sex with girls and boys 14 and older, in exchange for money.

The research carried out by the “Unreported World” on Channel 4 News also shows the point of view of several teenagers who have been forced to offer sex for money due to their economic conditions.

“They send me the money through Western Union and helps me a lot, mostly if they are tourists,” said Candy, a 17-year-old girl who has sex with a 76-year-old Swiss.

Another girl said that she had to go out on the streets because her mother is living abroad and one of her aunts did not treat her well. “I lived with an aunt and she did not treat well and I took the street.”

The producers consulted a tourist who said that this is a poor country where people need to survive. “The tourists take the girl to lunch to have a good lunch. They are happy, you know how much they can get in a day,” the consultant tells the program host.

They said that if they’d stop offering money for sex on the beaches, there would be no people there.

The video, which has more than two million views on Facebook, tries to raise awareness that this type of action is linked to the sexual abuse of minors.

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The Best (and Most Anticipated) Documentaries of 2024

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While the end of 2023 and first months of 2024 have yielded a trove of ambitious, frightening, and heartbreaking documentaries (see: Occupied City , Dario Argento Panico , 20 Days in Mariupol ), along with a soupçon of celebrity dish (see: Frida , Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces ), the spring and summer seasons promise a hodgepodge of nonfiction films that are similarly insightful, scandalous, activist, or unmistakably bizarre. Here, our quick guide to a few of the most exciting documentaries coming soon to a theater or streaming service.

Kim’s Video

Kim’s Video tells the quirky true story of how New York dry cleaner Youngman Kim founded Kim’s Video, a downtown institution that inspired a generation of cinephiles, filmmakers, and hipsters with its catalog of 55,000 independent, obscure, and bootlegged films. When Kim decides to close his chain of stores in 2008 and offer his video collection to buyers, a small Sicilian town with artistic aspirations purchases it intact, only to bury its location. Directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin travel to the small Italian town to find out what became of Kim’s collection—and hopefully return it to New York.

How to watch: In select theaters

This documentary follows the celebrated Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, whose soundtracks for 1960s and ’70s spaghetti westerns, political dramas, gialli, and, later on, American melodramas and action films often rivaled or outshone the movies themselves. Ennio contains detailed interviews with the composer (Morricone died in 2020) on some of the 400 soundtracks that he produced throughout his lifetime. The film also includes a who’s who of filmmakers and musicians, including Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Springsteen, Quincy Jones, and Clint Eastwood, who share their thoughts on or memories of Morricone.

How to watch: Stream on Apple TV , Prime Video , or YouTube .

High & Low: John Galliano

This portrait of enfant terrible and culture vulture John Galliano—former creative director of Givenchy and Dior, and current head of Maison Margiela—recalls his ousting from the heights of the fashion world after a very public anti-semitic tirade in Paris was caught on video. Kevin Macdonald’s film digs into both the public figure and the private world of Galliano, while also examining the high-stakes setting of an industry that causes its leading lights to flame out, often in vividly self-destructive spectacles. Macdonald does not apologize for Galliano’s blunders, misdemeanors, and addictions, but neither does he shy away from the industry titans that abetted them.

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Uncropped (April 26)

Uncropped is D.W. Young’s chronicle of the life and work of photographer James Hamilton, who captured the famous, infamous, and unique figures of New York City for The Village Voice , Harper’s Bazaar , Creem , and The New York Observer . Hamilton relays the stories behind some of his most famous photogenic subjects, from Lou Reed to Alfred Hitchcock. But Young also manages to bring together colleagues and friends from Hamilton’s Voice days so that the film also acts as an elegy to an era when photojournalism and alternative weeklies still had a tremendous authority to document and to celebrate underground culture. Executive produced by Wes Anderson, the film also includes interviews with Anderson, Thurston Moore, and Sylvia Plachy, among others.

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (May 3)

Catching Fire is billed as a never-before-seen portrait of the Rolling Stones muse, actress, and fashion plate, told from the perspective of her children, lovers, and friends, including Keith Richards, Marianne Faithful, and Marlon Richards. The film tackles her infamous public reputation as well as her private life through an archive of home movies and family photos. It also includes excerpts from Pallenberg’s unpublished memoir, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

Power (May 10, on Netflix May 17)

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This provocative political documentary by Yance Ford ( The Color of Care , Strong Island ) makes the case for policing’s historic and contemporary role in the maintenance of a racist and classist status quo. Ford relies on a heavy mix of archival footage and academic, press, and social justice interviewees (including a former police officer-turned-advocate) to explore how the complex hierarchies of law enforcement from the 18th and 19th centuries continue to play out in current battlegrounds such as Minneapolis, the site of George Floyd’s 2020 murder by police officers.

Taking Venice (May 17)

Presented in the manner of a heist or caper film, filmmaker and art critic Amei Wallach’s doc examines the true stories behind the scandalous rumors that Robert Rauschenberg’s Grand Prize win at the 1964 Venice Biennale was rigged. The reason behind the supposed cheat? The American government’s desire to wield soft power over the Russians through cultural export. Wallach looks at the top players working between government and art, including legendary gallerist Leo Castelli and Jewish Museum curator Alan Solomon (an early champion of Neo-Dada), whose efforts helped to shift the global capital of art from Europe to America.

Queen of the Deuce (May 24)

Valerie Kontakos’s film is a zany family portrait of Chelly Wilson, a Greek-born Jew who escaped Athens on the eve of World War II and resettled in New York City, where she eventually ran a network of porn theaters in Times Square. A savvy businesswoman in an industry then dominated by men, Wilson helped to make 42nd Street into the Deuce, a mecca for sex tourism in the ’70s and ’80s. Her most unusual story is told through archival recordings, home movies, animation, and family interviews.

Rowdy Girl (May 31)

Rowdy Girl centers on the titular Texas cattle ranch turned animal sanctuary founded by Renee King-Sonnen and her husband, Tommy. After their story becomes a national media sensation, King-Sonnen sets up the Rancher Advocacy Program to encourage other ranchers to transition to plant-based agriculture and adopt a vegan lifestyle. First-time director Jason Goldman follows King-Sonnen over two years as she shares her personal story of conversion and her efforts to transform an industry one ranch at a time.

The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (June 1)

This Hollywood insider doc from William Nunez examines the fascinating story behind the making of The Conqueror , Howard Hughes’s soapy epic starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Considered one of the worst movies of the 1950s, The Conqueror became notorious for another reason: its filming had taken place close to the Nevada military site where nearly a dozen atomic bombs had been tested in the previous year. Nunez investigates the US government’s brazen negligence during the height of its atomic tests, along with the movie studio’s willful ignorance of the dangers. The director also tracks the dozens of cases of terminal cancer suffered by The Conqueror ’s cast and crew, including Wayne and Susan Hayward.

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The winner of this year’s US documentary special jury award for the art of change at Sundance, Union spotlights a small group of Staten Island-based Amazon workers from the Amazon Labor Union, founded by organizer Chris Smalls (named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2022). The film follows the group as it attempts to unionize against one of the most powerful and profitable companies in the world.

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World’s oldest conjoined twins Lori and George die aged 62

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Guinness World Records are saddened to learn of the deaths of the oldest living conjoined twins and oldest female conjoined twins ever , Lori and George Schappell .

They passed away on Sunday 7 April at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania due to undisclosed causes, as per their   obituaries published by Leibensperger Funeral Homes.

They were 62 years 202 days old – nine years older than the second-oldest female conjoined twins ever recorded.

Born in Pennsylvania, USA, on 18 September 1961, Lori and George (formerly named Dori) had partially fused skulls, sharing vital blood vessels and 30% of their brains (the frontal and parietal lobes).

Lori and George as babies

Despite being joined at the head, the twins differed in many ways.

Lori was able-bodied but George had spina bifida and could not walk. He sat in a wheelchair-type stool which Lori pushed around.

George enjoyed a successful career as a country singer, whilst Lori was a trophy-winning ten-pin bowler. Lori also worked at a hospital laundry for several years during the ‘90s, arranging her schedule around George’s gigs, which took them around the world to countries including Germany and Japan.

Lori (left) and George (right) on ITV's This Morning (2011)

They became the world’s first same-sex conjoined twins to identify as different genders in 2007, when George started presenting as a man after revealing himself to be transgender.

He’d previously gone by the name Reba (after his idol, Reba McEntire) as he disliked the rhyming names that he and Lori were given.

The twins lived independently in a two-bedroom apartment in Pennsylvania. They each had their own room – alternating nights spent in each one – and tried to live their own individual lives as far as possible.

They took turns practising their separate hobbies; they said they effectively ‘zoned out’ when in each other’s room.

They also showered separately, using the shower curtain as a barrier while one showered and the other stood outside the bath.

Whenever they were asked if they wished they’d ever been separated, Lori and George always said no. “Would we be separated? Absolutely not. My theory is: why fix what is not broken?” George said in a 1997 documentary, which can be viewed above.

The twins defied all the predictions of medical professionals who said that they wouldn’t live past the age of 30. They became the oldest female conjoined twins ever in 2015, overtaking Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova who died aged 53.

Lori and George are survived by their father, six siblings, several nieces and nephews, and an extended family of friends.

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  4. My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist

    The documentary tells the story of the women who are bought and sold and gives them a voice to tell their own version of the vacation that these foreign men crave. Watch My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist (2007) online. Documentary providing a raw, unflinching look at a new development in the sex tourism industry: the growth of the "24-hour girlfriend".

  5. A Shady Side of Paradise

    The documentary delves into Pattaya's red-light scene -- and documents a lot of hypocrisy. Some German sex tourists convince themselves that their payments ensure the survival of impoverished Thai ...

  6. The Gambia is a sex tourism destination for British women

    I've met male sex tourists in places like Thailand and I've heard their stories: divorce, loneliness, feelings of inadequacy all 'solved' by a relationship with a local woman half their age.

  7. Inside Thailand's Child Sex Tourism Trade

    Inside Thailand's Child Sex Tourism Trade. 101 East investigates Thailand's sex tourism trade and how vulnerable children are exploited. Read more. 17 Aug 2023.

  8. Sex tourism: When conscience takes a vacation

    08/09/2022. A lot of travelers are looking for erotic adventures abroad — and are willing to pay for them. But many tourist destinations have shied away from addressing the issue. Red light ...

  9. Sex tourism

    Sex tourism is the practice of traveling to foreign countries, often on a different continent, with the intention of engaging in sexual activity or relationships in exchange for money or lifestyle support. ... From the documentary Ukraine Is Not a Brothel.

  10. Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries 2020x57 "Sex on the Beach"

    Aired September 28, 2020 12:00 PM on Channel 4. Runtime 45m. Country United Kingdom. Genres Documentary. Seyi Rhodes heads to Gambia to investigate the West African country's reputation as a destination for British sex tourists, looking at the truth behind the tabloid headlines. He meets 58-year-old Michelle, who recently married a younger ...

  11. Sex on the Beach: The Yin Yang of Female Sex Tourism in Two Films

    Sex tourism is on a continuum with colonialism; it is the softer side of oppression, but it robs its impoverished victims of their humanity and dignity nevertheless. How profoundly depressing to witness the discredited narrative of colonial domination and white culpability gaining new currency by shifting the burden of guilt from men to women!

  12. Sex tourists in Thailand (2023)

    583 votes, 313 comments. 20M subscribers in the Documentaries community. tl;dw /r/Documentaries is reddit's main subreddit for documentaries. ... German sex tourism to Thailand is a pretty well-known thing to such a degree that whole docu soaps have been made for German TV about German pensioners fucking around in Thailand. Reply reply

  13. 10 Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn't Miss

    Storch, Anne and Mietzner, Angelika. "10 Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn't Miss". The Impact of Tourism in East Africa: A Ruinous System , Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Channel View Publications, 2021, pp. 122-137.

  14. Inside Colombia's fight against child trafficking for sex tourism

    Dateline investigates Colombia's booming sex tourism trade and the foreigners who come to prey on minors. We join police raids on brothels, hear from survivo...

  15. Sex Tourism in the Caribbean. The film/documentary that I chose to

    3 min read. ·. Apr 23, 2017. The film/documentary that I chose to watch was called "Rent a Rasta", a term heard and used in Jamaica to describe the prostitution of Jamaican men to European ...

  16. Paradise: Love

    Paradise: Love. Paradise: Love ( German: Paradies: Liebe) is a 2012 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It tells the story of a 50-year-old Austrian woman who travels to Kenya as a sex tourist. [1] The project is an Austrian production with co-producers in Germany and France. It is the first installment in Seidl's Paradise trilogy, a project ...

  17. German documentary reignites sex tourism concerns for ...

    Concerns are being raised about the potential damage to Thailand's overall tourism market due to a documentary by German media organisation Deutsche Welle (DW), which highlights Pattaya as a sex tourism destination.This documentary is currently blocked in Thailand. Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi, the president of the Thai Hotels Association (THA), recalls a similar report about sex tourism in ...

  18. Sex Tourism: The Largest Free-market in Cuba

    Sex Tourism: The Largest Free-market in Cuba. October 15, 2012. Yenisel Rodriguez Perez. From the Cuban film "Los Dioses Rotos.". HAVANA TIMES — When the Cuban government began promoting the tourism industry in the 1990s, it was sex tourism that jump-started that initiative. Twelve years into the 21st century, they have managed to ...

  19. Docudrama says sex tourism with minors has surged in DR

    <p>Santo Domingo.- "The Dominican Republic has become a point of access for Western sex tourism," is the title of a documentary produced by a British chain that exposes the prostitution of minors on the country's beaches and tourist areas. During the visit to the country, one of the reporters conducted a social experiment: a man was placed on a beach and in less than five minutes, he was ...

  20. Why is the Gambia a hotspot for sex tourism?

    The Gambia is a popular destination for sex tourism. Sex tourism attracts western tourists — primarily women — who are eager to have sex with younger men. Pr...

  21. The Best Documentaries of 2024

    Kim's Video tells the quirky true story of how New York dry cleaner Youngman Kim founded Kim's Video, a downtown institution that inspired a generation of cinephiles, filmmakers, and hipsters ...

  22. Tourism: when women are looking for love

    Welcome to the Dominican Republic. This beach is specially appreciated by women from Europe, America and Canada, looking for love. Here, everything seems pos...

  23. World's oldest conjoined twins Lori and George die aged 62

    Guinness World Records are saddened to learn of the deaths of the oldest living conjoined twins and oldest female conjoined twins ever, Lori and George Schappell.. They passed away on Sunday 7 April at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania due to undisclosed causes, as per their obituaries published by Leibensperger Funeral Homes.. They were 62 years 202 days old - nine years older ...

  24. Uncovered

    Uncovered | Sex Tourism In Thailand | Best Documentary (2021)The purpose of this report is concern of the sex tourism in Thailand. Besides, this essay would ...

  25. Sex Tourism Documentaries

    RTD's sex tourism documentaries also take you to a street in India, where men from neighbouring towns not only come to watch the girls dance. Sex tourism documentaries. Fallen Angels. Sex, Drugs & Refugees. Dance, sex, dance. The Story of an Indian Street. SOS: Sold Out Slaves.