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== Cross-cultural evidence == | == Cross-cultural evidence == | ||
There is a substantial historical evidence of such "romance tourism" women visiting places such as Indonesia,<ref>Kelsky 1994</ref> Greece,<ref>Zinovieff 1991</ref> Jerusalem,<ref>Bowman 1989</ref><ref>Cohen 1971</ref> Jamaica,<ref> | There is a substantial historical evidence of such "romance tourism" women visiting places such as Indonesia,<ref name="kelsky1994">Kelsky, K. 1994. Intimate ideologies: Transnational theory and Japan's "Yellow Cabs". Public Culture 6: 465-478.</ref> Greece,<ref>Zinovieff, S. 1991. Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and the Ambiguities of Sexual Predationin a Greek Town.InContested Identities: Gender and Kinship in ModernGreece, P. Loizos and E. Papataxiarchis, eds., pp. 203–220. Princeton: Prince-ton University Press.</ref> Jerusalem,<ref>Bowman, G. 1989. Fucking tourists: Sexual relations and tourism in Jerusalem's old city. Critique of Anthropology 2:77-93.</ref><ref>Cohen, E. 1971. Arab boys and tourist girls in a mixed Jewish-Arab community. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 12:217-233.</ref> Jamaica,<ref>Pruitt, D.J., and LaFont, S. 1995. For love and money: Romance tourism in Jamaica. Annals of Tourism Research. 22:422-440.</ref> Ecuador,<ref>Meisch, L.A. 1995. Gringas and Otavalenos: Changing tourist relations. Annals of Tourism Research. 22:441-462.</ref> Barbados,<ref>Karch, C.A., and Dann, G.H.S. 1981. Close encounters of the Third World. Human Relations. 34:249-268.</ref><ref name="pritchard1989">Pritchard Wright, J. 1989. The toured: the cultural impact of tourism in Barbados. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California</ref><ref name="layne1969">Layne, P. 1969. Sunny Barbados. Bim, Barbados. 13:46-51</ref> Hawaii,<ref name="kelsky1994"></ref> only to get rammed by 'beach boys'.<ref>Herold, E., Garcia, R., & DeMoya, T. (2001). Female tourists and beach boys. Annals of Tourism Research, 28(4), 978–997. doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(01)00003-2 </ref> | ||
The partners these women engaged with were rather [[hybristophilia|thug]] Chads than prestigious Chads, generally occupying relatively low socioeconomic status and having little finacial security, but yet sociable, confident, physically agile and high status within their trade, e.g. as tour | The partners these women engaged with were rather [[hybristophilia|thug]] Chads than prestigious Chads, generally occupying relatively low socioeconomic status and having little finacial security, but yet sociable, confident, physically agile and high status within their trade, e.g. as tour guides.<ref name="gorry1999">Gorry, A. M. (1999). Leaving home for romance: Tourist women's adventures abroad.</ref> | ||
Not rarely, these roaming women themselves provided their partners with financial resources,<ref>Amber 1997 | Not rarely, these roaming women themselves provided their partners with financial resources,<ref>Amber, J. 1997. Sex on the beach. Essence 28, October. p. 101</ref><ref>Pruitt, D.J. 1993. "Foreign mind": tourism, identity and development in Jamaica. Ph.D dissertation, University of California, Berkely.</ref><ref name="pritchard1989"></ref> to the degree that locals exploited such behavior by specializing on feigning romantic interest.<ref name="gorry1999"></ref> | ||
Stereotypes about such women can be found in Caribbean literature:<ref>Cumber Dance 1993:21</ref> | Stereotypes about such women can be found in Caribbean literature:<ref>Cumber Dance, D. 1993. Matriarchs, doves, and nymphos: Prevalent images of black, indian, and white women in Carribean literature. Studies in Literary Imagination. 26:21-31</ref> | ||
{{quote|The most persistent, stereotypical, and restricted image [in Caribbean literature] is that of the white woman, who is viewed as an eager, lustful, sex-starved nymphomaniac, one whose goal in life is to be desired, seduces, '''and violated''' by a black or Indian Buck."}} | {{quote|The most persistent, stereotypical, and restricted image [in Caribbean literature] is that of the white woman, who is viewed as an eager, lustful, sex-starved nymphomaniac, one whose goal in life is to be desired, seduces, '''and violated''' by a black or Indian Buck."}} | ||
And a Barbadian male wrote about his endeavours seeking to obtain romantic opportunities with such Western travelers:<ref> | And a Barbadian male wrote about his endeavours seeking to obtain romantic opportunities with such Western travelers:<ref name="layne1969"></ref> | ||
{{quote|I was a Barbadian, a man of the tropics, wild, untamed, supple, POTENT—what every northern woman wishes for.}} | {{quote|I was a Barbadian, a man of the tropics, wild, untamed, supple, POTENT—what every northern woman wishes for.}} | ||