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The exotic and the erotic.:

Why do people travel? For Ian Littlewood, 'the sexual element is vital to tourism' (p.5).

His book is mostly based on the diaries of writers and artists like Boswell, Wilde, Gide, Loti, Forster, Byron, Isherwood, Waugh, Gauguin, with at the end a comment on the Club Med.
It constitutes a keen look at (sex) tourism through the ages.

Since travel began (the British coming over to the continent), the sexual component was an implicit part of the story. The official reason was culture (opening of the... more info

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