Colonial tourism and prostitution: the visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955)
This article is about touristic visits to Bousbir, Casablanca’s red-light district during the French colonial period. Bousbir was a kind of erotic-exotic theme park, visited by both the local population and travelers. It was an essential stop on any visit to Casablanca, and hence to Morocco. The Bou...
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| description | This article is about touristic visits to Bousbir, Casablanca’s red-light district during the French colonial period. Bousbir was a kind of erotic-exotic theme park, visited by both the local population and travelers. It was an essential stop on any visit to Casablanca, and hence to Morocco. The Bousbir touristic experience had elements, all at once, of colonial travel, excursions to red-light districts, slumming, and visits to the great works of the French Empire. The appeal of Bousbir was in making available – at the same time morally scandalous and politically admirable – the indigenous female body in an oriental setting. The history of Bousbir invites us to question the connections between tourism and prostitution, and more specifically between (neo)colonial tourism and sex tourism. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-013cff507fff4f3ea5f76b84941fbbda2025-01-30T14:04:40ZdeuAssociation Via@Via@2259-924X2015-11-01810.4000/viatourism.431Colonial tourism and prostitution: the visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955)Jean-François StaszakThis article is about touristic visits to Bousbir, Casablanca’s red-light district during the French colonial period. Bousbir was a kind of erotic-exotic theme park, visited by both the local population and travelers. It was an essential stop on any visit to Casablanca, and hence to Morocco. The Bousbir touristic experience had elements, all at once, of colonial travel, excursions to red-light districts, slumming, and visits to the great works of the French Empire. The appeal of Bousbir was in making available – at the same time morally scandalous and politically admirable – the indigenous female body in an oriental setting. The history of Bousbir invites us to question the connections between tourism and prostitution, and more specifically between (neo)colonial tourism and sex tourism.https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/431colonizationprostitutionsex tourismslummingtheme park |
| spellingShingle | Jean-François Staszak Colonial tourism and prostitution: the visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955) Via@ colonization prostitution sex tourism slumming theme park |
| title | Colonial tourism and prostitution: the visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955) |
| title_full | Colonial tourism and prostitution: the visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955) |
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| title_short | Colonial tourism and prostitution: the visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955) |
| title_sort | colonial tourism and prostitution the visit to bousbir in casablanca 1924 1955 |
| topic | colonization prostitution sex tourism slumming theme park |
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