Female Sex Tourism: Women Looking for Fun!

Female sex tourism is on the rise. More and more female tourists travel in search of sexual adventures.

History of female sex tourism

If you think that female sex tourism is a new phenomenon then you are mistaken. During the first wave of feminism, sometime after 1840, some wealthy women traveled to exotic countries with a special purpose: to enjoy in casual sex with a stranger. This was an era when the female independence and the right to independent travel were starting to be discussed, but certain ladies were a few steps ahead.

Then there was silence for several years in between, until the second wave of feminism appeared after 1960 and contributed to the rise of female sex tourism. Similar to today, women, especially of French Canadian origin, traveled to Barbados and also to India, Dominican Republic, Spain and Greece. Contemporary female sex tourism is discussed also in a documentary Rent-a rasta,which shows female tourists who pay to have sex with young Jamaican men. 

Women from all over Europe look for sex and romance

Current researches have shown that every year more than 80.000 women, mostly middle-aged, travel around the world in search of sex. In the last 25 years, more than 600.000 women traveled with such purpose. Popular destinations are those which are interesting for tourists also otherwise, for example Egypt, Indonesia and also Senegal, Ukraine, etc. Anonymous interviews with women, conducted by Global Post among others, revealed that women act no differently than men have acted for centuries.

Sex tourism isn't practiced only by the elderly who search for young Thai women, which is often what people imagine when someone mentions sex tourism, but also by married or single women, who mostly search for excitement but also love. Compared to men, women visit striptease clubs and public houses less often, and look for men in a more discreet way. In Senegal and probably in other places as well, women mostly find such men at the beaches or clubs and they shower them with expensive gifts and money.

Kamala Kempadoo, professor from the Institute for Culture and Society at York University in Toronto, studied female sex tourism for several years. She discovered that white women are especially excited over black men, but they don't want only sex from them. Some of them want to feel special again, enjoy in pampering, even if they have to pay for it. It is also interesting that these men (which are equal to gigolos in some places) have different nicknames, for example renta-a-rasta, while in Dominican Republic they are playfully called 'sanky panky'.

Personal experiences of a sex tourist 

If you are interested in personal experiences of a sex tourist then you should read the book Romance on the Road, written by Jeannette Belliveau. After a twelve-year old marriage she is faced with a difficult divorce and she decides she only wants sex from then on, without any emotional attachments. While she is vacationing on the Caribbean, she falls in love with a young black man and they also marry later. 

The book also includes interesting claims about female sex tourism, for which she discovers that it is not always conditioned by money. ''Women meet somebody while traveling and decide to have a good time,'' says Belliveau.

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