Male travellers have traditionally symbolized adventure and risk-taking, according to historical accounts that usually only mentioned male achievements. For example, Graham Hughes was the first man to visit 201 countries using limited funds. Touring has long been seen as a way for men to experience growth and escape domestic responsibilities. Some male travelers visit places like the Red Light District in Amsterdam seeking alcohol, entertainment and sex. Guided tours introduce tourists to the sex industry as a "staged authenticity" where the female bodies are commodified and the male gaze is reinforced. While both male and female tourists now visit such places out of curiosity, the sex industry was originally intended for men's sexual desires.

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*The travelling of men often symbolizes “adventures”
and “risk-taking” & “bravery”
*E.g. The first man who visited 201 countries
*Graham Hughes, 33, used buses, taxis, trains and his
own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426
days - all on a shoestring of just $100 a week
*His lowest point was when his sister, Nicole, died of
cancer two years ago
*He says: 'I think I wanted to show that the world is not
some big, scary place, but in fact is full of people who
want to help you”
*(Blake, 2012)

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* New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese
Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount
Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at
11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953
*The first couple to climb up the Mountain
(Rosenberg)

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Only MALE is mentioned in such pioneering
journey & in history.

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*Male: Dominates travelling
*=> growth and maturity
*=> becoming a “man”
*Women: Stays at home and looks after children
*=> “Good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go
everywhere” (Enloe,2000, P.21)
*“[Tourism] is a set of presumptions about
manhood, education and
pleasure”(Enloe,2000,p.28)

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*Male travellers might opt for alcohol,
entertainments & sex escape
*Visit bars and pubs
*E.g. Moulin Rouge in France
Enjoy Can Can dance
Male gaze in sexual female bodies
Though tourists of both sexes can go there
(maybe out of curiosity)
Originally: For man’s sexual desire only
“Women are something to be experienced”
(Enloe,2000,P.28)

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*Case Study:
*Red Light District in Netherland
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
rsKe3rMc5fo
(0:47)

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*For Fordism:
*Production oriented: sell similar sexual services
*Highly standardized : Expected range of
services & charges
*Tourists gaze (exotic; unlike the prostitutes in
homeland)
*Extraordinary (away from everyday)

9. *Window “shopping” for sex services
*=> reinforced male gaze
*=> female bodies are being commodified
*=> Sell herself like the mannequins sell clothes
*Inferiority of the locals; superiority of the foreign male tourists

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*Efficiency: Two hour tour to walk through RLD &
Museum of Prostitution
*Calculability
*=>From USD $ 34.87 (expected price)
*Predictability
You know where you’re going, doing & seeing
E.g. Guided walk, visiting museum, and
witnessing the prostitutes for your own eyes
Homogeneity
*Same tour day by day, on & on

13. *Tourists believe that they are “insiders”, who
are able to see the “real” stuff
* Yet it is merely “staged authenticity”
*A “show” viewed by the foreign tourists
*Not only male gaze is reinforced, but also
tourist gaze

14.  Women (prostitutes) => Dangerous
 Classified as “dark side” of the City (then what about casinos
and pubs?)
 Locals: “friendly”, “knowledgeable” and “reliable”
 => Superficial social relations (like a trustworthy “friend” or
“brother”)
 Has to rely on the local guide in order to be “safe”
 Make the place sounds like more dangerous and risky
=> Don’t go by yourself alone!

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*Adrenaline rush by witnessing the sexy
prostitutes in the window display
*More than the gaze by male
As well as female tourists
View the prostitutes as if they are sex objects
=>Male gaze is being legitimized by such tours

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*Condoms are one of the “must-have” souvenirs
from Holland
*Signify the sexual freedom of the country
*Attract tourists who want to experience and
satisfy they sexual desire
*“Sexualized” Holland => as a sex paradise

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*Blake, M. (2012, Nov 27). British man becomes
first person to visit all 201 countries.. without
using a plane read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
2239087/graham-hughes-british-man-person-
visit-201-countries-without-using-plane.html
*Coinseurotrip. (Performer). (2011, Mar 2).
Amsterdam Red Light District HD [Web Video].
Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKe3rMc5
fo
*Enloe, C. (2000). “On the Beach.” Bananas,
Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of
International Politics. Berkeley: University of
California Press. 19-41.

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*Rosenberg, J. (n.d.). The first to climb mount
everest. Retrieved from
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/
mteverest.htm