Editorial Reviews:
There may never have been a time when men (and women) have not traveled for sex. The intrepid pedestrian Thomas Coryat, whose Crudities of 1611 was the first real travel guide, already notes that the allurements of the Venetian prostitutes have drawn trade from all of Christendom. For all epochs for which we have records it can be demonstrated that sex has been not merely supererogatory to travel but often its real impetus. And much of this sex has been bought and paid for. Until recently most expressions of this experience have been taboo. But in the last century, as the technological and economic power of the west, especially, enables more of its citizens to indulge in travel and the fantasies that impel them, a literature of sexual travel has emerged. Wanderlust is a voyeuristic collection by celebrants (and detractors) of the fugitive ecstasies, humiliations, and consequences of paying for sex far from home. Men and women, gay and straight, buyer and seller, amoral and conscience-stricken?all contribute a perspective on what can now be acknowledged a commonplace, though emotionally fraught and morally ambiguous, experience of the traveler. Included are selections from Stendahl, Timothy Mo, Nelson Algren, Alma Guillermoprieto, William T. Vollman, Marilyn Jaye-Lewis, Michel Houellebecq, Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood, Joe Orton, Jonathan Ames, Rachel DeWoskin, and many others.
Customer Reviews:
 Intermittingly interesting, mostly dreary
I didn't pick up on the fact that Wanderlust was pretty much all about ho's, and it made me depressed to slog through all that commercial sex and exploitation. After a while there was a monotonous sameness to it that was even more numbing, in spite of the interesting--even occasionally profound--points scattered throughout. Overall, I found it more degrading than engaging.  sex and travel-travel and sex
if you love sex and or travel then this book was written for you!
while reading many of the stories i was able to relive the sights, sounds, smells and sex described by the authors. so, if you love travel and sex or sex and travel, then read this book!
enjoy.
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