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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)

* 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)

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

*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)

*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)

*Case Study:*Red Light District in Netherland

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsKe3rMc5fo

(0:47)

*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)

*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

*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

*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

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!

*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

*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

*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=rsKe3rMc5fo

*Enloe, C. (2000). “On the Beach.” Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press. 19-41.

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