Research Catalog

Title

Mongers in heaven : sexual tourism and HIV risk in Costa Rica and in the United States / Jacobo Schifter-Sikora.

Author

Schifter, Jacobo.

Publication

Latham, [Md.] : University Press of America, Inc., c2007.

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Details

Description

iv, 207 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Sexual tourism and HIV risk in Costa Rica and in the United States

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Sexual Behavior
• Risk Factors
• HIV Infections
• Sex Work
• Sex tourism > Costa Rica
• Prostitution > Costa Rica
• HIV (Viruses) > Costa Rica
• Sex tourism > United States
• Prostitution > United States
• HIV (Viruses) > United States
• Sex Work > United States
• HIV Infections > United States
• Risk Factors > United States
• Sexual Behavior > United States
• Costa Rica
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Methodology -- Information-gathering and illegality -- The surveys -- Focus-groups discussions -- In-depth interviews -- Enthnographic observation -- 2004 RAP -- Quotes -- Background -- Sexual culture -- US-Costa Rican relations -- Is Costa Rica a new Thailand? -- Sex or going fishing? -- Sex workers who cater to tourists -- Sex tourists -- Origins and characteristics -- Self-definition -- How do Mongers negotiate with sex workers? -- The sex worker -- Social status -- HIV in the Caribbean and Central America -- The Costa Rican epidemic -- Sex workers -- Sexual practices -- Condom use -- The women -- Condoms in trash cans -- Machismo and feminism -- Tradition versus modernity -- Liminal -- Latin women versus American women -- Lying and simulation -- The female perspective -- Sex work becomes complicated -- Girlfriend fantasy experience -- Second houses -- Ethics -- HIV -- Female condom -- English for sex work -- Ms. Safe : interactive software -- A sex worker's Website, paper and guardian angel program -- Noctuma : a sex worker's magazine -- Guardian angel program -- Non-mandatory HIV testing.

ISBN

• 9780761835974
• 0761835970

OCLC

• 81148600
• SCSB-12827169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library