Title: Tourism, Sexuality and Development: Gay sex tourism and the Philippines in the new millenium.Submitted by: Dana Collins, Ph.D. Candidate ,Department of Sociology ,University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USAMy research explores the relationship between sexuality, sex work, and tourism by focusing on gay tourism and male sex work in the Philippines. Although gay tourism is an overlooked component of the tourist and sex industries in the Third World, male sexual services are an integral part of these industries. Aside from research on HIV/AIDS and child prostitution, little research has investigated the social impact of gay sex tourism on sexual communities in the Third World. Gay sex tourism is a process of exchange where meanings of sexuality, labor, and consumption change through the contact of local cultures with international tourism. I will focus on three social relationships within gay sex tourism-sexual labor, tourist motivations, and the commodification of gay travel. I shall base my analysis on interviews, ethnographic techniques, and tourist documents in order to specify the cultural and material relationships that produce gay sex tourism.
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