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{{trope|wppage=Sex tourism}}
'''Sex Tourism''' is when someone visits another area - typically another country - to get laid. [[Squick
In some cases, the sex is arranged as part of the package, e.g. as pre-arranged prostitution, or you just go somewhere and you hook up with someone as an ordinary pick up. In the movie ''48 Hours'' (which does not have sex tourism) Nick Nolte refers to the process of someone going out to hook up with someone to have sex as a ''trim hunt''.
In the United States, the PROTECT
Sex-oriented travel to places where adult prostitution is lawful (such as Amsterdam's red light district) or loosely regulated may still fall with the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) definition of "trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks, with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the tourist with residents at the destination" even if it is not inherently a crime.
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{{noreallife|tell your local police force, not us.}}
== Advertising ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* The European railways organisation who sell youth-aimed "Inter-Rail" international European rail passes got into trouble with a magazine advert showing yellow condoms on a blue background as a parody of the [[European Union]] flag, suggesting a little too overtly that holders might engage in this trope.
== Comic
* As much of a [[Crapsack World]] as ''[[Sin City]]'' is, it still gets tourists from other parts of the US and even other countries who want to visit [[Red Light District|Old Town]].
== Film ==
* ''[[How Stella Got Her Groove Back]]'' is the quintessential example of female sex tourism. A woman visits another country and hooks up with a hunky young man.
** Which is based on a book BTW, which is again based on the [[Real Life]] experience of the author. The relationship didn't work out however, since said young man came out as gay when in the US, and they had a nasty breakup. Just so you know.
* ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' has a scene with one of the cowboys going to Mexico to anonymously hook up with a local man, presumably to release the stress of having to live in a heterosexual marriage and limit his contact with the other sheep herder to only once a year.
* This is the initial plot in the first ''[[Hostel]]''. At least before [[It Got Worse|things get bad]]. Fast.
* In ''[[Dogma]]'', a member of the Board of Directors for the Mooby Corporation is killed by Loki (the Angel of Death) because he flew to Thailand to have sex with an [[
* Pretty much the entire plot of ''Eurotrip''.
* ''Heading South'' with Charlotte Rampling is about middle-aged Western women who go to the Caribbean for sexual encounters with local men.
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== Literature ==
* The novel ''[[Exit to Eden]]'' is about a BDSM sex-fantasy island.
** Also its [[Film of the Book|film adaptation]].
* The backdrop of [[Peter Straub]]'s novel ''Koko'' is the sex-tourism fueled underbelly of Bangkok.
* Michel Houellebecq's novel ''Platforme'' deals extensively with sex-tourism when it's not busy insulting Islam.
* ''[[
== Live Action TV ==▼
* In a ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' episode, Munch goes undercover to bust a travel agent who secretly runs a sex-tourism business for male pedophiles. "We have an arrangement with a local orphanage" in a Third-World country.
* ''[[The Office]]'' (USA): Jim asks for vacation advice from the other employees. Kevin suggests Hedonism in Jamaica: "It's like Club Med, but everything is naked."
* On ''[[The Wire]]'', McNulty (Dominic West) [[
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' had an episode where a former Foreign Exchange Student named Pierre wanted to stay in America to get girls, [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|it works for him.]]
* Some of the characters on ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Bonnie of ''[[Family Guy]]'' while away from her paraplegic husband, goes to France to sex it up with a ... paraplegic
▲* Bonnie of [[Family Guy]] while away from her paraplegic husband, goes to France to sex it up with a ...paraplegic french man
* In episode 140 of ''[[South Park]]'', the Super Adventure Club is revealed to be an organization which travels to the most exotic places in the world so they can be the first explorers to have sex with the native children.
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