Line #6 Main/SexTourism


1	->''"I'm going to Greece for the sex! Sex for breakfast! Sex for dinner! Sex for tea! And sex for supper!"''
2	-->-- '''Shirley''', ''Theatre/ShirleyValentine''
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4	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. This is sometimes called ''romance tourism'' to differentiate it from the more male oriented trope name.
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6	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/FortyEightHrs'' (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".
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8	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.
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12	!!Examples:
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16	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
17	* In ''{{Manga/BECK\|1999}}'', [[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.
18	* In ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'', the gang frequently travel to various places for the specific purpose of sampling the "succu-girls" there. They explicitly want to experience as many different species as they can.
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22	* The European railways organisation who sell youth-aimed "Inter-Rail" international European rail passes got into trouble with a magazine advert showing yellow condoms on a blue background as a parody of UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion flag, suggesting a little too overtly that holders might engage in this trope.
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25	[[folder:Comic Books]]
26	* As much of a CrapsackWorld as ''ComicBook/SinCity'' is, it still gets tourists from other parts of the U.S. and even other countries who want to visit [[RedLightDistrict Old Town]].
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29	[[folder:Film]]
30	* ''Film/HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack'' is the quintessential example of female sex tourism. A professionally successful divorced Black American woman visits another country (specifically Jamaica) and hooks up with a hunky young man.
31	* ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' has a scene with one of the cowboys going to Mexico to anonymously hook up with a local man, presumably to release the stress of having to live in a heterosexual marriage and limit his contact with the other sheep herder to only once a year.
32	* This is the initial plot in the first ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. At least before things get bad. Fast.
33	* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', a member of the Board of Directors for the Mooby Corporation is killed by Loki (the Angel of Death) because he flew to Thailand to have sex with an [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Eleven! Year! Old! Boy!]]
34	* Pretty much the entire plot of ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}''.
35	** Scott actually goes to Berlin to profess his love for a girl he never actually met. His best friend, though, goes specifically for this reason.
36	* ''Heading South'' with Charlotte Rampling is about middle-aged Western women who go to the Caribbean for sexual encounters with local men.
37	* ''Holly'' is about an American expatriate in Cambodia who tries to rescue a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl from the world of child prostitution.
38	* In ''Film/LoveActually'', Colin goes to America because he figures American girls will go crazy over his cute British accent. It works.
39	* In ''Film/StealingBeauty'', Lucy goes to Italy and has sex for the first time. Oh, and looks for her father.
40	* In ''Film/ThePrinceAndMe'', Prince Edvard makes his college choice based solely on seeing it featured in a ''GirlsGoneWild'' video.
41	* ''Film/SexDrive'' is about a young man who steals his brother's car and drives halfway across the country so that he can lose his virginity to a girl he met online.
42	* This is what most of the holidaymakers (except the monks) are hoping the package tour in ''Film/CarryOnAbroad'' will turn out to be. Vic Flange wants to have an affair with Sadie Tompkins, Bert Conway wants to find an attractive woman, Lily Dickey and Marge Mace want to find young men, Stanley Blunt wants his wife Evelyn to loosen up sexually, and Nicholas Phipps wants to find a girl.
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45	[[folder:Literature]]
46	* The novel ''Literature/ExitToEden'' is about a BDSM sex-fantasy island.
47	** Also its [[FilmOfTheBook film adaptation]]. Which [[FanDisservice starred ]] Creator/DanAykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell.
48	* The backdrop of Creator/PeterStraub's novel ''Koko'' is the sex-tourism fueled underbelly of UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}.
49	* Michel Houellebecq's novel ''Platforme'' deals extensively with sex-tourism.
50	* ''Literature/TimeScout'' features SexTourism to the past. Some people go downtime to have sex with downtimer whores. This is viewed very negatively and explicitly referred to as rape. They're called "zipper jockeys".
51	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Ultimate Evil'' by Creator/AndrewVachss. Batman takes on an international child pornography/prostitution ring, which includes an expy of Thailand whose major source of foreign currency is child sex tourism.
52	* In the ScienceFiction story ''And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side'' by James Tiptree, Jr, aliens are exploiting Earth for its resources while the more perverse among them engage in BoldlyComing with the locals.
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55	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
56	* ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'':
57	** 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. A pedophile ring is exposed and one of its members has recently returned from a tour. The Postal Inspectors intercept an incriminating video tape.
58	** 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. It's a case of JusticeByOtherLegalMeans, as the director had been getting away with exploiting barely legal actresses in certain American states for some time.
59	* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': Jim asks for vacation advice from the other employees. Kevin suggests Hedonism in Jamaica: "It's like Club Med, but everything is naked."
60	* On ''Series/TheWire'', Jimmy [=McNulty=] (Creator/DominicWest) [[HowsYourBritishAccent pretends to be an Englishman]] in Baltimore in order to infiltrate a sex slavery ring. He gets much farther with it than expected, to the eyerolls of his colleagues.
61	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' had an episode where a former Foreign Exchange Student named Pierre wanted to stay in America to get girls, [[EverythingsoundssexierinFrench it works for him.]]
62	* Some of the characters on ''Series/{{MASH}}'' have, jokingly, remarked their main reason for joining the Army and being in [[UsefulNotes/{{KoreanWar}} Korea]] is for the (female) nurses (with sex implied).
63	* Implied in one of the ''Men On...'' sketches from ''Series/InLivingColor''. The two (''very'' camp) hosts talk about their trip to Europe, upon which they decided to leave Sweden, with its blond, buxom women (''"Hated it!"'') and go back to Greece, where they "bent over backward" for the pair.
64	* Series/SaturdayNightLive: A fake ad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDjnG8J9cY&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive for Rosetta Stone]] shows several creepy looking men learning Thai "for a business thing". Phrases include, "Is that for the whole night?" and "I need to speak with the American embassy".
65	* Risa in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is a PlanetOfHats where this is the hat. Mostly portrayed positively, but some fans see unfortunate implications.
66	* [=LoMo=] in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is a "PleasurePlanet" chiefly devoted to sex tourism, with some [[SexSlave extremely]] [[LovePotion nasty]] organised crime. It may have been intended as a {{Deconstruction}} of the ''Star Trek'' example above.
67	* This is {{Inverted\|Trope}} with [[HighClassCallGirl Inara]] on ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': she rents a short-range shuttle from Mal, and has to stay with his ship, which takes her all over the star system. She meets up with clients based on where ''Serenity'' plans to go next, rather than the other way around. Many of the clients try to convince her to stay longer with them, despite her having made it clear beforehand exactly how long she is going to be there for, but when ''Serenity'' goes, Inara goes with it.
68	* Implied on ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' (of all places) in "Clubba Hubba" when Carlton wakes up the family butler, Geoffrey, his [[WakingNonSequitur reaction]] is "Get your own Geisha!"
69	* ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'' Season 2 has this going on in a few directions, as befits a season of a show about a luxury resort with the season's theme literally being lust.
70	** Cameron Sullivan takes full advantage of the opportunity to hire Lucia and Mia, and it's strongly suggested that he expected to do a good bit of whoring in Sicily.
71	** Daphne Sullivan is never ''shown'' to cheat on her husband Cameron, but it's strongly suggested that the trip to Noto with Harper Spiller was either a way for her to do so or to show Cameron that she could do so if she wanted.
72	** Dominic Di Grasso ''tries'' not to do this, but literal [[ExtremeLibido sex addict]] that he is he ultimately can't resist the [[AThreesomeIsHot offer of a threesome with Lucia and Mia]].
73	** 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 ([[spoiler:who is ultimately playing him and swindles him for €50,000.00]]).
74	** 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 ([[spoiler:who is ultimately playing her, though he does spare her life against Quentin's orders]]).
75	** 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 and flirting with all the beautiful Sicilian ladies.
76	** If you haven't noticed a running theme, Lucia and Mia are an inversion: Local Sicilians who exploit these Americans' (and presumably other foreigners') search for sex to their own advantage. (Luci is explicitly a prostitute and wants money, ''maybe'' to open a clothing boutique; Mia cooperates in her friend's schemes, but is mostly looking for her break as a singer).
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80	* Music/SteelyDan's "Haitian Divorce" (off ''The Royal Scam'') seems to indicate something like this--the woman flew down to UsefulNotes/{{Haiti}}, maybe to file divorce papers (a common practice before American divorce laws were liberalized, particularly for New Yorkers[[note]]Haitian divorce laws were long quite liberal, while NY was late to the liberal-divorce party in general and always moved in halting steps--New York didn't adopt non-consensual no-fault divorce until ''[[UsefulNotes/TheNewTens 2010]]''.[[/note]]) or maybe just to get away from her marriage for a while, and appears to have found a hot Haitian lover.
81	* K.T. Oslin's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD537oCkFk4 Mexico Road]]" has a woman and her girlfriends going this type of trip.
82	* [[Music/NinjaSexParty Ninja Sex Party's]] "Road Trip" is all about Danny going on a cross country road trip to have sex with women all over America, this later escalates to him traveling around the world for sex and finally flying a rocket into space so he can find "hot alien sluts."
83	* Music/{{Rammstein}}:
84	** ''Auslander'' is a song about a guy who travels to different countries ''just'' for sex. Forget one-night stands, the singer only stays for a few hours, just enough for a random hookup.
85	** ''Pussy'' is a bit tongue-in-cheek about someone going to other countries for sex because "I can't get laid in Germany."
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88	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
89	* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': The Magistracy of Canopus is a realm on the Periphery border of the Free Worlds League. It's noted for having the most [[FreeLoveFuture sex-positive outlook]] of anywhere in the setting and sex tourism is a major industry for them (the other major industry being medical in nature, as they're also noted for having some of the most skilled surgeons and [[HollywoodCyborg cybernetic prosthetics]] of anywhere in the setting).
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92	[[folder:Theatre]]
93	* In ''Theatre/ShirleyValentine'', Shirley isn't actually going to Greece for the sex -- it's just an impulsive attempt to recapture some joy in life -- but her daughter assumes that's her motive, especially after she admits she hasn't told her husband yet. (She ends up getting some sex while she's there anyway.)
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97	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': In Ethelmik with the mines used up and the crown preparing to shut down the town people are trying to keep their home afloat using brothels which entreat travelers and pilgrims to come in and spend foreign sem and local labor points.
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100	[[folder:Western Animation]]
101	* Bonnie of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' while away from her paraplegic husband, goes to France to sex it up with... a paraplegic French man.
102	** In one episode Quagmire goes on a "Cross Country Tour" to California, having a lot of sex on the way.
103	--->'''Brian:''' [[CountryMatters Isn't there an "O" in "country"?]]\
104	'''Quagmire:''' Nope!
105	** 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]]:
106	--->'''Peter:''' Wow. ''Wow,'' they're young. We better go.
107	* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' "Bloopers" episode had the host explain how he has to supplement clips from his own troubled life due to the company's CEO blowing the show's budget on vacations to have sex with Thai schoolboys.
108	* In episode 140 of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the Super Adventure Club is revealed to be an organization which travels to the most exotic places in the world so they can be the first explorers to have sex with the native children.
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