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Title: Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood ISBN: 0-306-81155-3 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The exotic and the erotic.
Comment: Why do people travel? For Ian Littlewood, 'the sexual element is vital to tourism' (p.5).
His book is mostly based on the diaries of writers and artists like Boswell, Wilde, Gide, Loti, Forster, Byron, Isherwood, Waugh, Gauguin, with at the end a comment on the Club Med.
It constitutes a keen look at (sex) tourism through the ages.
Since travel began (the British coming over to the continent), the sexual component was an implicit part of the story. The official reason was culture (opening of the mind), but the unofficial one was sexual 'education'. The home comers couldn't disguise it, for they were infected by VD's.
Travel reflected and still reflects economic power and 'colonialist' superiority.
For the affluent who could afford it, Italy (and also Africa) was the main pleasure ground for women travellers; Paris and the Mediterranean countries (Algeria) for men. Their main goal was 'sex with the young', also the very young (paedophilia).
Travel was and is an escape. Now, an escape out of stress. In the former centuries an escape out of the home situation: for women, the subordination; for men, lack of sexual liberty and condemnation of homosexuality.
I recommend this book because it treats a modern subject without dodging an often disguised but essential part of it.
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Title: Wanderlust: Writers on Travel and Sex by Daniel O'Connor, Michael Hemmingson ISBN: 1560254319 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Platform by Michel Houellebecq ISBN: 0375414622 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Against Love : A Polemic by Laura Kipnis ISBN: 0375421890 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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