Tourists increasingly mix the exotic with the erotic
Your suitcase is packed, your e-ticket is printed and your cab is en route to the airport. Are you ready to get away and get it on?
Sex is as much a part of vacations these days as tucked-in sheets and overpriced cocktails, and the Mile High Club has seemingly been replaced with the Miles Away Club, with people engaging in erotic behavior in increasingly exotic locales.
A couple was fined recently after having sex at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in northern France, while a British couple face harsh punishment for allegedly having sex on the beach in Dubai.
And although despoiling war memorials and offending conservative faiths should not be a turn-on, countless couples do seem intent on taking their lovemaking on the road, re-creating the beach scene of "From Here to Eternity," sand mites and fellow travelers be damned.
Exciting international places to have sex are touted on various Internet sites and personal Web pages. So why are so many people trading in their sightseeing guides for "The Rough Guide to Getting Naked"?
"A lot of people who are nice and proper here, do things more out of line when they are away," said Aurora Benzion, co-owner of the Toronto nightclub Wicked, which caters to swingers. "People are less inhibited."
Having sex in a new location can be as titillating as hooking up with a new partner, she said, and can add a much-needed shot of excitement to an intimate relationship.
"It's the anonymity. You put a mask on people and they're totally different," she said. "The real personality comes out."
A summer-sex survey done by the condom maker Durex in 2006 found that people on vacation are most likely to have sex in a hotel room, but will also engage in amore in the pool, at the beach and on the hotel balcony.
In Men's Health magazine, an article discussing the top reader-submitted vacation spots for sex included the Grand Canyon and a New York ferry.
"The castle in Prague," one reader reminisced. "My boyfriend and I took the self-guided tour. We went down a staircase and ended up in a very large, empty, dark, stone room. A little spooky, but I would definitely do it again."
In "Sex and Tourism: Journeys of Romance, Love and Lust," tourism professors Thomas G. Bauer and Bob McKercher describe the relationship between travel and intimacy.
Although the words "sex tourism" have become synonymous with prostitution, the authors argue that "the vast majority of people who engage in sex when they travel do so with their regular partners."
"Sometimes sex or the prospect of sexual encounters at the destination or along the way plays a central role in the decision to travel," the book states.
In interviews with motel owners, travel guides, backpackers and other industry experts, the book concludes that tourism is a major facilitator of human intimacy.
"There are numerous tourist destinations that have traded strongly on their association with romance, love and sex," the book states.
But not every country is happy about their coital connections, and some tourists can land themselves in hot water by getting spicy in public.
On the Greek island of Zakynthos, public sex among tourists is such a problem that, in 2005, a local member of Parliament called for the immediate extradition of any couples caught in the act.
In Britain, a phenomenon called "dogging" has seen a rise of people having sex and watching people have sex in public parks.
The British newspaper The Independent recently quoted Richard Byrne, an environmental-affairs expert, saying the country's parks are being used for more than just Frisbee tossing.
"From a study we did 18 months ago, we reckon about 60 percent of the country parks are affected by dogging," Byrne said.
In the case of the Vimy war memorial, Alain Robillard and Jackie Boldoduc were charged after posting an Internet video of their erotic encounter at the historic landmark.
They were ordered by a French court to pay a symbolic 1 euro ($1.56) in damages to Canada for despoiling its World War I memorial, and were given a suspended four-month jail term and a 500 euro ($780) fine.
But they were not the first to engage in such inappropriate behavior at the site.
Their punishment came just six months after two others were fined for taking nude photographs of themselves in the same place, and police said that similar incidents have been reported at other memorials.
"It is a problem which appears to be getting worse," a police spokesman told the Telegraph. "People appear to get a perverse pleasure out of this behavior."
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