“Romantic Entertainers” on Kenya’s Coastal Tourism: A Case of Sex Tourism

dc.contributor.author	Omondi, Rose
dc.contributor.author	Ryan, Chris
dc.date.accessioned	2021-04-06T12:52:27Z
dc.date.available	2021-04-06T12:52:27Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01-17
dc.identifier.issn	0149-0400
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.jooust.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/9354
dc.description.abstract	This paper results from a year-long ethnographic study spent with a group of women on the Kenyan coastline who provide older male European tourists with friendship and intimacy. However, for the most part these are asymmetric relationships for while in many instances the men experience emotional feelings of tenderness for their girl-friends (albeit based on concepts of being with an “exotic” woman), for the women a mzungu (a foreign long-term male client perceived as wealthy) represents a potential richer life-style. The paper describes the practices engaged in by the women as they entertain their clients in a theater of romance based often on a deceit and where to survive emotions are on the one hand faked and on the other require self-delusion and distancing.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Leisure Sciences	en_US
dc.subject	Kenya	en_US
dc.subject	Romantic entertainers	en_US
dc.subject	Sex tourism	en_US
dc.title	“Romantic Entertainers” on Kenya’s Coastal Tourism: A Case of Sex Tourism	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US