Paying for Sex While Traveling As Tourists: The Experiences of Israeli Men

Authors: Prior, Ayelet & Peled, Einat

Abstract: This qualitative study explored the experiences of 15 Israeli men who paid for sex while traveling as tourists abroad, based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with them. The findings focus on three major aspects of the participants’ experiences: the meaning of sex for them and their reasons for wanting to pay for it; the problems involved in paying for sex; and paying for sex while traveling abroad as a preferable option to paying for sex in Israel. The discussion offers sociological and psychological intersubjective explanations for the men’s preference to pay for sex as tourists overseas.

Keywords: constraints, consumer preferences, international tourism, international travel, men, psychology, sex tourism, sexual intercourse, sociology of tourism, tourists, willingness to pay