tourism and prostituion in the Caribbean

there is a dossier in the The New West Indian web site
http://www.awigp.com/default.asp?numcat=sextour

> 1. Sex tourists: survey / Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, sociologist at
> Leicester
> University, provides insight into the motivations and explanations of
> sex
> tourists and reveals how pre-conceptions of race and gender affect their
> opinions.
>
> 2. Cuba: The Thailand of the Caribbean / "I want to talk about
> prostitution in
> Cuba but I'm lacking experience. I've never prostituted myself. I've
> never paid
> for sex. I belong to a generation of Cubans who couldn't acquire enough
> power to
> awaken greed in the courtesans of true socialism and who now are lacking
> enough
> dollars to pay the new prostitutes of decadent socialism." by Jesús
> Zúñiga
>
> 3. Dominican Republic / There are 50,000 women from the Dominican
> Republic
> overseas in the sex industry - the fourth highest number in the world,
> after
> Thailand, Brazil and the Philippines.
>
> 4. Victoire à Vienne / La Coalition Contre la Traite des Femmes (CATW),
> en
> collaboration avec le Réseau International des Droits Humains, a mené et
> gagné
> une bataille décisive qui visait à influer sur la définition de la
> traite.
Received on Wed Mar 14 18:40:11 2001