History Main / SexTourism

* In ''{{Manga/BECK}}'', [[DirtyOldMan Saitou's]] Thailand trip seems to be one of this judging from the photographs he brings back. This is lampshaded by Koyuki, who (apparently obliviously) wonders why middle-aged men like going to Southeast Asia so much.

** Dominic's son Albie isn't explicitly trying to get laid in Sicily, but does flirt heavily with fellow American tourist Portia before sleeping with the hot Italian prostitute Lucia (who is ultimately playing him).
** Portia isn't explicitly trying to get laid in Sicily, but does flirt heavily with fellow American tourist Albie before sleeping with the hot English mystery man Jack (who is ultimately playing her).

** Bert Di Grasso (father of Dominic and grandfather of Albie) is too old to do real sex tourism, but besides reconnecting with his Sicilian roots his main purpose in traveling is looking at all the beautiful Sicilian ladies.

* ''Film/HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack'' is the quintessential example of female sex tourism. A woman visits another country and hooks up with a hunky young man. The movie is based on a book which is again based on the RealLife experience of the author. The relationship in real life didn't work out, since said young man was secretly gay and angling for a CitizenshipMarriage to escape the incredible homophobia of Jamaica; he came out once he got his citizenship and he and the author had a nasty divorce.

* Some of the characters on ''Series/{{MASH}}'' have, jokingly, remarked their main reason for [[JoinTheArmyTheySaid joining the Army]] and being in [[UsefulNotes/{{KoreanWar}} Korea]] is for the (female) nurses (with sex implied).

* This is what most of the holidaymakers (except the monks) are hoping the package tour in ''Film/CarryOnAbroad'' will turn out to be.

** In one episode, Munch goes undercover to bust a travel agent who secretly runs a sex-tourism business for male pedophiles. "We have an arrangement with a local orphanage" in a Third-World country.
** In another a pedophile ring is exposed and one of its members has recently returned from a tour. The Postal Inspectors intercept an incriminating video tape.

** In another DA Barba pursues a sex tourism case against a pedophile director who traveled to Canada to have sex with a young but legal in Canada girl.

In some cases, the sex is arranged as part of the package, e.g. as pre-arranged prostitution, or you just go somewhere and you hook up with someone as an ordinary pick up. In the movie ''Film/FortyEightHours'' (which does not have sex tourism), Creator/NickNolte refers to the process of someone going out to hook up with someone to have sex as a "trim hunt".

->"I'm going to Greece for the sex! Sex for breakfast! Sex for dinner! Sex for tea! And sex for supper!"

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* As much of a CrapsackWorld as ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is, it still gets tourists from other parts of the US and even other countries who want to visit [[RedLightDistrict Old Town]].

-->'''Brian''': [[CountryMatters Isn't there an "O" in "country"?]]
-->'''Quagmire''': Nope!
** Seen in "Fighting Irish" where during the [=QuagFest=] "Love Around the World" parade of Quagmire's conquests, Peter and the family observe the various women from different countries, including [[CrossingTheLineTwice Thailand:]]
-->'''Peter:''' Wow. ''Wow,'' they're young. We better go.

* On ''Series/TheWire'', [=McNulty=] (Dominic West) [[HowsYourBritishAccent pretends to be an Englishman]] in Baltimore in order to infiltrate a sex slavery ring.

Sex Tourism is when someone visits another area - typically another country - to get laid, generally with the locals. {{Squick}}y examples include men who go to various Asian countries for sex with children, or try to pick up kids over the Internet and fly out to where they are to take them to a motel. Less squicky/not-squicky examples (based on your perspective; in media, these are usually PlayedForLaughs) tend to involve things like American men going to Europe (because EuropeansAreKinky) or European men going to America (because supposedly [[ArousedByTheirVoice American women can't resist their accents]]) to pick up women in bars and such, or women going to the beach in Mediterranean countries like Greece, Spain, Italy, or the South of France, or to the Caribbean, where the men are [[LatinLover supposedly hunky and romantic]] and happy to have sex with tourist women from colder climates.

** In another DA Barba pursues a sex tourism case against a pedophile director who traveled to Canada to hav sex with a young but legal in Canada girl.

In the United States, the PROTECT act allows US citizens who engage in "illicit sexual conduct" outside the country to be fined and/or imprisoned.