Abstract
Abstract The above-mentioned authors offer a challenging and revealing study of the enjoyments and drawbacks of female sex tourism. I examine the interactions between white female tourists and local black men from the context of post-colonialism, asking whether these encounters can be considered a “fair trade” or whether they are the neo-colonising of people in this ex-slave society.
Highlights
In an interview (Gardner 2006:2) the playwright Tanika Gupta regretted that female sex tourism was “a still largely underdiscussed subject”, which induced her to write Sugar Mummies
Sugar Mummies and trade illustrate the questions raised in the title of this paper as to whether sex tourism is a “fair” trade or whether it is a new kind of colonial exploitation
“who is the victim and who is the perpetrator – the women who fall for declarations of true love or the mostly poor, underemployed men who make them?” (Martin 2006:2)
Summary
Most women tourists are middle-aged single travellers from a variety of social backgrounds, yet they are always in a privileged economic position compared to the impoverished local men they use or abuse for their sexual pleasure in an exotic land. Through the sexual relations and monetary transactions between these tourists and the locals, again of different ages – Andre, Antonio (young and inexperienced), Sly (experienced, pretending to be young), and Reefie (the most experienced and the oldest) – the spectator gains an insight into the holiday sex trade.
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