To browse Academia. This exploratory study aspires to fill this gap by creating a taxonomy of non-commercial sex for women who engage in various forms of tourism. The study findings are discussed in terms of their contribution to the research area of sex in tourism. Resistance gave rise to feelings of adventurousness, challenge, control, and empowerment.
Post-structuralist lens of power relations, as well as the concepts of front and back regions, performativity, and existential authenticity were adopted to conceptualize the findings. Drawing upon constructivist grounded theory, 21 in-depth interviews with secular and traditional Israeli Jewish women were analysed using a Foucauldian lens, which incorporated technologies of self, inversions of sexual roles and heterotopia. The findings reveal that for some women, sexual behavior in tourism is an arena for self-exploration, resistance and self-transformation.
The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Prostitution exists as a 'fuzzy legal' activity, in that while largely proscribed in many countries, it nonetheless continues within a legal and social framework of constraint and limited tolerance.
Tourism can also be observed as a liminal behaviour, in that it is a temperorally constrained, socially tolerated period of wish fulfilment, a form of fantasy enactment that is normally denied to people. Generally, the tourism literature has tended to perceive sex tourism as a form of deviance, but this paper argues that it is not an added component to tourism, but a form of behaviour quite consistent with the motivations that underlie much of tourism.
Both activities of tourism and going to a prostitute involve satisfaction of needs of social companionship, fantasy fulfilment, family bonding, the search for something new and opportunities for relaxation.
