Several countries, which have never before participated in the race for the right to become a country where tourists can use specific services, have stood out at this point during the recent years. In addition to such traditional destinations as Thailand and Southern Mediterranean states the list has been added with the Caribbean countries – Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

The gender affiliation of sex tourism has also suffered some changes. It is generally believed that sex tourism used to be attractive to women in their thirties, lonely and unhappy females. Nowadays, sex tourism enjoys great popularity among men too.

A typical female sex tourist is a middle class woman from a developed country. Citizens of Barbados , an island, which is also included in the group of sex tourism, dubbed such female travelers as “Canadian secretaries.”

Women explore Europe (presumably Holland and the Czech Republic) and the United States, other females brave Africa for new impressions.

The term ‘secretary’ represents the collective image of middle class women. Canadian women make the majority of 600,000 travelers visiting the Caribbean every year for a quick love affair.

The prices of escort services of local males vary from 30 to 150 dollars per hour, depending on women’s means. Successful gigolos can also enjoy gifts, souvenirs, clothing, jewels and accessories.

As for men, they are more traditional in their search for new impressions and bodily pleasures. Bangkok is the most popular destination among men from all over the world.

Female travel sex (involving American and English women) began in Rome in the late 1840s, at the same time as first wave feminism, which encouraged independence and travel.

Affairs and intrigues, particularly between American heiresses and impoverished European aristocrats, continued steadily until World War I, inspiring a whole genre of literature such as Henry James's Daisy Miller, Joaquin Miller's The One Fair Woman, and much of the early output of E.M. Forster.

Female sex travel declined from the time of the Depression until the 1960s.

Coincident with the explosion of leisure travel in the 1960s and second wave feminism, sex tourism by women re-ignited, first via French Canadian women traveling to Barbados and Swedish and Northern European women to Spain, Greece, Yugoslavia and the Gambia. Female sex travel became ubiquitous throughout the Caribbean, from the tiniest islands through the big destinations of Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Barbados.