O is for Orientalism: the dynamics of the sexual tourist gaze in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005)

This article explores the Orientalist dynamics of North/South sexual tourism in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005). The narrative of the film is structured around the self-interested motivations of three white middle-aged bourgeois Western women who travel from North America to Haiti in the late 1970s in order to explore their sexuality in what they perceive as an island paradise, effectively exiling themselves from the codified social behavior expected of them in their homeland. The women avail themselves of the pleasures offered by young black Haitian men, often in exchange for money or goods, and fuel one-sided fantasies of romantic love with their local hosts, seemingly oblivious to the Orientalist nature of such an imbalance of social and economic power. The article explores the historical context of the political repression and violence of late-1970s Haiti under the Duvalier regime, as well as the manifestations of spatial politics represented in the film. In its Haitian setting, Vers le sud sheds light on a relatively unfamiliar cultural and social milieu for the Western/Northern audience, with the director keenly aware of the exoticism of the subject matter and the impossibility of the film to maintain its neutrality in a problematic engagement with the Orient/South. The article argues that the privileged position of the film’s protagonists is matched not only by Cantet’s directorial gaze, but also by the intellectual detachment of postcolonial scholars such as the article’s authors, who acknowledge that their engagement with the subject matter risks re-enacting the Orientalist dynamics they seek to expose.

The HIV Epidemic In Colombia: Spatial And Temporal Trends Analysis

BACKGROUND – Colombia occupies 4th place among all Latin American countries in HIV/AIDS incidence rates, which have been increasing since the 1980s. There is a paucity of studies which address this trend. In this study we employed spatial and temporal trend analyses to study how the epidemic behaves in Colombian territory. METHODS - Our sample was composed of 72,994 HIV/AIDS cases and 21,898 AIDS-related deaths reported to the National Ministry of Health between 2008 and 2016. We employed the joinpoint regression model to analyze the annual HIV/AIDS incidence and AIDS mortality rates. In the spatial analysis we used univariate autocorrelation techniques and the Kernel density estimator. RESULTS – While the HIV/AIDS incidence had an increasing trend in Colombia, the AIDS mortality was stabilized. There was a downward trend in HIV/AIDS incidence and AIDS mortality among people between 0 to 14 years of age. An upward trend was observed for HIV/AIDS incidence in people older than 15 years of age and with the highest trend in 65 years and over group. AIDS mortality showed an increased trend in those 65 years old or over. The high-high clusters of HIV/AIDS incidence and AIDS mortality were located in the Andean and Caribbean regions. The HIV epidemic expanded from the North Caribbean region to Midwest Colombia.CONCLUSION – Sexual tourism and internal or external immigration might be responsible for the highest HIV/AIDS incidence and AIDS mortality rates observed in the Caribbean and Andean regions. Our results showed that Colombia needs to invest in specific and comprehensive public health policies to end HIV by 2030.

The Prevention on Child Sexual Tourism in Lombok (The Province of West Nusa Tenggara), by Virtue of the Act Number 35 Year 2014 Concerning the Child Protection

There are two types of child criminals in the tourism sector, there are preferential crime and situational sexual child crime. The preferential is a crime on children sexual oriented, the perpetrator put the children as a target to satisfy their sexual demand, and they have always been looking for children in order to fulfill their sexual desire. In this sense, they take an advantage from tourism facilities to find the children particularly the child on a tourism destination. The criminal threat to the child sexual crime is regulated under criminal codes, and The act number 35 year 2014 Concerning The Child Protection. Lombok island as a tourism object face this threat. Therefore the aim of this research is to determine the prevention act conducted by the stae and communinities on the tourism section by virtue of the Act Number 35 Year 2014. The research method in this paper using empiric juridical study by conducting primary data which collected directly from the resources who are the respondent and interviewees. Further, it is completed by secondary data which collected through the library conduct. The conclussion of this study; the are numerous prevention acts conducted by the state and communities to fight against child sexual exploitation, namely; forming the group to fight against human trafficking in every village of Lombok Island, and implementating a task force in the province of West Nusa Tenggara.

Defiant Deviance and Franco-Moroccan Cinema's Queer Representations of Masculinity

In the last decade, Franco-Moroccan directors have begun to explore culturally taboo and unrepresented sexual communities within Morocco. This article examines how two pioneering films, Abdellah Taïa's Salvation Army and Nabil Ayouch's Much Loved, contribute to an emerging cultural politics in the Arab-speaking world that is reframing marginalized or invisible sexualities. While these films address issues of sexual tourism, incest, and prostitution, among others, the focus of this article is on the films’ critiques of internalized homophobia, sexual tourism, and the sociopolitical power structures that occlude, marginalize, or shame those males outside of the heterosexual matrix. Analyzing the films’ portrayal of the semiotics of forbidden desire, internalized homophobia, and the circulation and spatialization of queer sexualities in Morocco, this article argues that Salvation Army and Much Loved complicate our understanding of Arab masculinities and add to a growing queer visibility that stretches from the Maghreb to the Gulf.

How do we Look at Prostitutes in Algeria, a Model of Western Domination? The Example of the Appearance of the "Ouled-Naïl" in Fromentin, Maupassant and Gide

This article traces the genealogy of the figure of the dancer or prostitute from the Ouled-Naïl ethnic group in Algeria from the second half of the 19th century onwards. It assesses the possible responsibility of writer-travellers in the sexual exploitation of these women. By focusing on three great writers of the time (Fromentin, Maupassant and Gide), it aims to measure the appreciation of prostitution in French literary discourse, initially perceived as traditional practice yet which gradually engendered sexual tourism.

Revisão Sistemática sobre a Exploração Sexual Comercial de Crianças e Adolescentes

Revisão sistemática - RS é um processo metodológico que sintetiza resultados de estudos sobre determinado tema. A RS seleciona pesquisas relevantes no âmbito teórico-prático para a pesquisa bibliográfica. A presente RS teve como objetivo conhecer a realidade da ESCCA – Exploração Sexual e Comercial de Crianças e Adolescentes em nosso país em uma perspectiva fenomenológica, a partir do olhar de pesquisas empíricas. Descritores em língua portuguesa foram: exploração sexual comercial, violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes -abuso sexual contra crianças e adolescentes, tráfico sexual de crianças e adolescentes, turismo sexual, pornografia infantil e pedofilia. Foram encontradas 76 publicações nas bases de dados eletrônicas: Google acadêmico, Scielo e Portal de periódicos da Capes, sendo que 22 estudos preencheram os critérios de inclusão: i) estudos empíricos: ii) entre 1990 e 2011; iii) publicados em Língua Portuguesa; iv) sobre quaisquer tipos de exploração, exclusivamente, para o público de crianças e adolescentes. Constatou-se que a problemática da ESCCA está banhada de pluridimensionalidade, que não se esgota na violência da opressão socioeconômica e de reconhecimento da condição humana; implica na produção de um sistema simbólico gerador de estigma cultural, que traz impactos sobre todas as dimensões do ser com implicações locais, pessoais, políticas e planetária. A partir do diálogo teórico entre as pesquisas empíricas desta RS e estudiosos da área, pode-se concluir que a temática precisa ser aprofundada, em suas especificidades, para que os vulneráveis invisíveis e suscetíveis a todo tipo de violência simbólica da nossa sociedade desigual não permaneçam nesta situação.Palavras-chave: Ensino. Educação. Exploração Sexual Comercial. Violência.AbstractSystematic review - RS is a methodological process that synthesizes results of studies on a given theme. The RS selects relevant research inthe theoretical-practical scope for the bibliographic research. The purpose of this present RS was to know the reality of ESCCA - Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in our country in a phenomenological perspective from the perspective of empirical research. Descriptors in Portuguese: sexual violence against children and adolescents, sexual abuse of children and adolescents, sexual trafficking of children and adolescents, sexual tourism, child pornography and pedophilia; 76 publications were found in the electronic databases: Google academic, Scielo and Portal of journals of Capes, 22 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria: i) empirical studies: ii) between 1990 and 2011; iii) published in Portuguese; iv) on any kind of exploitation exclusively for the public of children and adolescents. It was verified that the ESCCA problem is loaded with multidimensionality, which is not barred with the violence of socioeconomic oppression and recognition of the human condition; It implies the production of a symbolic system that generates cultural stigma, which impacts on all dimensions of being with local, personal, political and planetary implications. From the theoretical dialogue between the empirical researches of this RS and scholars in the area, it can be concluded that the theme needs to be deepened in its specificities, so that the vulnerable individuals which are invisible and susceptible to all kinds of symbolic violence of our unequal society do not remain in this situation.Keywords: Teaching. Education. Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Violence.

FENOMENA POLIGAMI ANTARA SOLUSI SOSIAL DAN WISATA SEKSUAL DALAM ANALISIS HUKUM ISLAM, UU NO. 1 TAHUN 1974, DAN KHI

Polygamy is one of the problem in the marriage of the most discussed widely and controversial. One side of polygamy is rejected with a variety of arguments between normative, psychological, even always associated with gender injustice-as revealed by gender activists or activists of women. In fact, Western writers often claim that polygamy is evidence that the teaching of Islam in the areas of marriage is very discriminatory against women. On the other side, polygamy campaigned as it is considered as one alternative to resolve the phenomenon of cheating and prostitution. Whatever the reasons said, clearly polygamy is a religion shari'ah presence clearly in the Qur'an, regardless of how this verse applied. The issue is under what conditions and by whom this polygamy shari'ah can be implemented. This paper attempts to examines polygamy on one side of the impact on social solution, on the other side can be regarded as sexual tourism which is conducted the husband, and could also both reasons join simultaneously. Furthermore, the authors discuss polygamy with analysis knife of Islamic Law, Law No. 1 of 1974, and KHI (Positive Law). Not only that, the authors also attempt to align polygamy study it with a knife of analysis the theory of phenomenology in sociology. Keywords: polygamy, Islamic Law, Positive Law, Phenomenology.