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
·
The
questions I found interesting
