Tourists interaction with travel and sex does not occur within vacuum Wealthy countries unfettered access to warm, third world destinations fuels unequal power dynamics and permits continued exploitation Histories of colonialization thus permeate relationships between affective care, sex and tourism As Cabezas explains, tourist plantations in Cuba and the Dominican are gendered and raced spaces, eroticized along a colonial axis of power which reinforce all the former divisions of labour, capital [...]