The exchange of sex for money in contemporary Cuba : masculinity, ambiguity and love
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
My dissertation proposes that in order to understand the complicated meanings that individuals attribute to sex tourism relationships in places like Cuba, we must do away with categories that simplistically focus on hierarchical relationships and one-way exchanges of emotions and resources. Categories such as sex work and prostitution continue to judge these relationships as illegitimate and thereby obscure the ways in which they resemble more ordinary and legitimate relationships. My framework for studying sex tourism in Cuba is one that includes love and ambiguity in the analysis and thereby refuses to place judgment on these relationships. In a sense, this is a classic anthropological type of analysis since I privilege local categories over the categories from my own culture. My approach, moreover, places close narrative analysis, contradictory and complex power dynamics at the center, instead of clumping worldwide sex tourisms and prostitutions under one umbrella. Equally important in my work, I believe, is the inclusion of a discussion of my fieldwork experiences and the way my relationship to the men I studied affected my writings. The bulk of my dissertation entails a close analysis of the relationship between Peter, a middle-aged Canadian tourist, and Salvador, a young Cuban hustler. Although one can identify the important influence of money in their year-long sexual relationship, love and ambiguity play equally important roles as their stories develop. Indeed, I show that many tourists are drawn to Cuba because they specifically seek these ambiguous relationships among exotic others, just as young Cubans often forsake love with locals for the complicated love and hustling relationships they develop with tourists.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it