Romance on the Road provides rich details on sexual geography. Topics include:

Places

• Overarching geographic patterns governing sex tourism destinations for men and women
  • The world’s two leading emporia for sex tourism: Thailand and the Dominican Republic
  • Men’s destinations: Southeast Asia, Latin America
  • Women’s destinations: Mediterranean, Africa, Caribbean
  • Gay destinations: Sitges, Cape Town, Bangkok, Brazil
  • Lesbian destinations: Lesbos, Bali
  • The Zone of Sexual Freedom: Africa
  • The Zone of Sexual Winter: East Asia
  • The Zone of Sexual Violence: Melanesia
  • The Zone of Abandonment: Oceania
• Femininity, masculinity, sex warfare and geography
• Exclusive immigration data on foreign wives and husbands of Americans
• Emotional geography and the commodification of sex

History

• Veiling laws, agricultural development and female sexual freedom
• Cleopatra, Babylon’s sacred priestesses, Turkish free spirits and Native American single women
• History’s first sex destinations: Italy and Greece
• Victorian female adventureresses: Rome, the Near East, India
• Spain, the Caribbean, West Africa and the 1960s explosion in female sex tourism
• Erica Jong, Terry McMillan and how novels accelerated trends
• Princess Diana, Osama bin Laden and the Middle East
• Predictions of the future of female sex tourism and its social impact

Language

• Sex tourism by language groups in Caribbean islands

Demographics

• Feminism and unintended consequences
• Mate shortages created by marriage patterns:
  First World and Third World alike
• Sex and the divorced Baby Boomer woman
• Mate selection in throes of a revolution
• Widespread involuntary celibacy: Female and male

People

• Female sexual pioneers:
  — in Southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Polynesia
• Gay men: Common motivations with Victorian women
• Lesbians: Special destinations and strategies

Theory

• The first sexual geographer: Sir Richard Francis Burton
• The female participant: Anne Cumming, Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• The novelist as theoretician: Paul Theroux, Michel Houellebecq
• The skeptical social scientist: April Gorry