And you’re assuming that has anything to do with my assessment of your behavior? Some women’s ability to racially/ethnically stereotype in the pursuit of Hot Vacay Sex is more important to you than even the slightest misgivings of anyone who is uncomfortable with racial and ethnic stereotypes. You’ve made that…

oops...forgot to reply to the first part: power dynamics are not always the same, no. depending on the situation, real or perceived racial, economic, national difference, including something as minor as having access to travel to a foreign country in the first place, the power dynamic can change. i am not one who sees…

and you can say all that without saying they are like the “spaniards” of the region. . . which i am sure you know has both social and sexual connotations . . . your comment on tibetans, however, was not the only one. there are several others that follow about tibetans that take common personality/behavioral traits or…

the only judgment i am making is one about people being reductive in their approach to other groups. sexual morality or respectability politics over women having sex is not my concern, but you seem to keep bringing it back to that...maybe because you still do not see how many of the comments are based on stereotypes…

no one is suggesting that people in the west are the only ones who practice sexual agency, but you, like one of the other commenters, are still only seeing this as a question of sex positivity. what i and several others happen to be saying is that many people here are sharing a reductive view of people who are…

I bet you’d love to hear other people’s reactions to you being a privileged, oblivious jerk.

What an assy comment. Deliver us from this sort of “sex positivity” that doesn’t even have any room for thoughtful discussion and expressions of discomfort with things that might encourage or sanction exotification and exploitation of other cultures. If it’s just about being comfortable with sexuality and having a…

oh, and i forgot to address this: but as i said above, i am not making a moral judgment, so calling me sanctimonious is a bit of a stretch. is that what you say to everyone trying to make a point about intersectionality or just me?

you are completely missing my point, which you have every right to do. but just in case: my statement is not against sex positivity. it’s against speaking about a whole group of people in sweeping statements about their appearance and behavior and placing it all under the umbrella of sex. if i replaced the…

also, nothing is really *badass* about having sex with people, particularly if you are doing so to get a notch in your belt for getting it on with someone of a different race and/or nationality.

exactly this. thank you. on a side note, every time i keep refreshing here, the comments are getting worse and worse. it’s rather interesting (though not surprising) to see how people are using this thread as a means of exorcising language they would otherwise couch in political correctness...

And then other women who are actually interested in culture and history go to those countries and wonder why the men are so incredibly rude and pushy, I was shocked by how many women go to Turkey as sex tourists. I just want to see the ruins!!

thank you. i commented something of a similar note (and even had a similar opening to my comment lol) a few minutes before you posted this. at least i was not the only one responding to that vibe. and even though this post does not attend to the question of female sex tourism explicitly, or the caribbean necessarily…

i know that, but a lot of them *are* sharing their stories while relying on stereotypes, which, as someone who has been on the other end of that, i find a bit frustrating to read.

Not to be a Debbie Downer—-and I don’t think this article necessarily advocates this—-but I think it’s important to be mindful of the whole “Privileged (and typically White) Woman looking for her Carribbean/Latin American/African Sex Play Thing While on Vacay.”

i don’t want to be that person (aka a “debby downer” or someone who takes something seemingly light to a dark place) but something about this post (or perhaps the responses of the interviewees within it/comments) skeeved me out a bit. i have seen a zillion and one pages by men posting about their experiences with…

Well, you can make the issuance of clinical trial licenses contingent on publication of the results. And also, there are journals for negative data, if you force companies to publish, you'll create the journalistic landscape. And it does not have to be published in a journal, you can just post the basic data points on…

From the ever popular series of advisories entitled "Stuff we really shouldn't have to say, but somehow still need to".

Having to publicize every failure is probably not good for stock prices, but the cost of publishing a paper is spare change for big pharma.