PROSTITUTION AND SEX TOURISM IN THE MODERN WORLD AS EXAMPLES OF THE EXPERIENCE INDUSTRY

Abstract

In the modern world, such a social phenomenon as prostitution and sex tourism is widely developed. This specific “experience industry” includes about a dozen states and regions of the world, such as, first of all, Thailand, Vietnam, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, partly China, and a number of other countries, if we talk about male clients. It is customary to consider such services as an unambiguously criminal and negative phenomenon, which must be fought both at the government level and on behalf of international public and human rights organizations, as a modern form of slavery, exploitation and objectification of women. There is also female sex tourism, for example, in Turkey, Zanzibar, therefore, in our opinion, it is impossible to see here only facts of female sexual exploitation. In this regard, we aim to conduct a qualitative analysis of these industries, to rethink the basic clichés about this area, without encroaching on justification, but without condemning both sex workers and their clients. Modern prostitution and sex tourism have long been established as a social phenomenon that has centuries-old historical and even religious roots and has embodied in an almost legalized experience industry.

For citation:
Petrov V. E., & Yakimchuk, D. (2024). Prostitution and sex tourism in the modern world as examples of the experience industry. Experience industries. Socio-Cultural Research Technologies (EISCRT), 1 (6), 197-219. (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.34680/EISCRT-2024-1(6)-197-219