{"product_id":"caribbean-pleasure-industry-mark-padilla-9780226644363","title":"Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Pleasure Industry\u003c\/i\u003e shifts the focus onto the men. Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures, and new challenges for HIV prevention. In fluid prose, Padilla analyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as \"normal\" heterosexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. Padilla's exceptional ability to describe the experiences of these men will interest anthropologists, but his examination of bisexuality and tourism as much-neglected factors in the HIV\/AIDS epidemic makes this book essential to anyone concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Padilla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226644367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226644363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.11w x 0.67d","brand":"Mark Padilla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056656642303,"sku":"9780226644363","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5283dec-32a2-4e0a-9d6b-2d610558876e.jpg?v=1685042535","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/caribbean-pleasure-industry-mark-padilla-9780226644363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}