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Mongers in Heaven - Sexual Tourism and HIV Risk in Costa Rica and in the United States (Paperback)
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Mongers in Heaven - Sexual Tourism and HIV Risk in Costa Rica and in the United States (Paperback)
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Mongers in Heaven is an exploration of "Monger Culture." Mongers,
as defined by the author in relation to sexual tourism to Costa
Rica, are tourists and expatriates who have developed a unique
culture of simulation, lying, marriages, gender games, and sexual
liberation. Schifter-Sikora analyzes the relatively new phenomenon
of American senior citizens mass-traveling to Central America in
search of sex and love from prostitutes. The social and economic
impact of their travel, as well as the increase in new HIV
infections in the U.S. and the Central American countries, is at
the core of Schifter-Sikora's analysis. The author also makes a
unique psychological analysis that includes both the sex worker and
her American client and their mutual aspirations and
disappointments. The study features unique quantitative data on
this population of sex workers and clients and the group's reasons
for and expectations of sexual tourism. Also under analysis by
Schifter-Sikora, is Jean Baudrillard's theory of simulation and
simulacra, here in relation to the disappearance of the "real" in
sexual tourism. American sex tourists are creating a sexual culture
where truth is no longer relevant or desired. Costa Rican sex
workers, for their part, hope for the traditional "real" that the
Americans are escaping from. Both groups are turning a former
Banana Republic into a sexualized fantasy land where women who
charge are lovers and prospective wives, and those who do not are
seen as the real prostitutes.
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