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[email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. C. Benoît Sex, AIDS, migration, and prostitution : human trafficking in the Caribbean Study of sexual tourism in Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, where prostitution is a widespread reality. Author argues that on this island where rapid economic development is based on the tourist industry and on offshore financial services, sexual relationships are determined by geopolitical and financial (neoliberal) interests that go beyond sexuality per se. She focuses on the precarious situation of the foreign prostitutes who have no working papers. In: New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 73 (1999), no: 3/4, Leiden, 27-42 This PDF-file was downloaded from http://www.kitlv-journals.nl Downloaded from Brill.com02/28/2019 07:29:22PM via Connecticut College CATHERINE BENOIT SEX, AIDS, MIGRATION, AND PROSTITUTION: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE CARIBBEAN In every society, sexuality is set in the service of several realities - economic, political, etc. - which have nothing to do directly with sexuality or with the sexes (Godelier 1995:117).