caa a22 4500 44580579X CHVBK 20180317145156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10611-011-9330-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10611-011-9330-5 Miller Jody School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, 123 Washington Street, # 545, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA aut Beach boys or sexually exploited children? Competing narratives of sex tourism and their impact on young men in Sri Lanka's informal tourist economy [Elektronische Daten] [Jody Miller] Sex trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) are widely identified as global social problems, but each remain politically charged, especially given the disproportionate emphasis on sexual slavery. The current investigation is a case study of CSEC within the context of Sri Lanka's international tourism industry. I draw from data collected during a multi-year field study to analyze and compare those understandings of sex tourism and CSEC driven by local "moral crusaders”—which dominated policy and public discussion—with the experiences of adolescent boys and young men who participated in these markets. Moral claims-making, focused as it was on cultural purity, morality, Western perversions, sexual slavery, and deviance, shifted attention away from the global political and economic contexts in which transactional sex took place. This resulted in both distortions and harms to marginalized youth in tourism communities, and a failure to address the economic realities of those involved in the informal tourism economy, including transactional sex with tourists. The current study thus adds additional support to the concerns raised by scholars and activists about the scope, nature, and impact of efforts to ameliorate commercial sexual exploitation, including the harms that result from narrow foci on individual deviance and sexual slavery. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 56/5(2011-12-01), 485-508 0925-4994 56:5<485 2011 56 10611 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9330-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9330-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Miller Jody School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, 123 Washington Street, # 545, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 56/5(2011-12-01), 485-508 0925-4994 56:5<485 2011 56 10611 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer