It is closer and cheaper than other sex destinations, such as Thailand.
With the planned socialist economic infrastructure cracked at the seams, Cubans are forced to find new ways to survive.
In Cuban society it was accepted that men were naturally driven to sex.
We drank rum on ice from our table in the front row.
In 1959, women made up only 17% 262,000 of the work force, and around 70% of these women worked as domestic servants Smith and Padula, 1996.
The development of the Cuban tourist industry resulted in the income available from prostitution being many times greater than professional salaries in the country, and university-educated women turned to dollar-earning prostitution in the tourist sector.