Scripts em cena: HIV e mercado sexual no contexto turístico

Tourism creates social, cultural and health impacts on host communities. Current paper analyzes, throu gh an ethnographic study and 14 interviews with young ecoto urism guides, how the sexual scenario in the tourism context and its sexual scripts construct the vulnerability to STD/HIV and to commercial sex among young "caicaras". Traditional sexual scripts, operated by "sex playing", "pleasure," "no sexual inhibition" scenario, revealed social inequ alities among "caicaras" and tourists and expanded the young people's vulner ability to STD/HIV and the commercialization of sexual ity. Female sexual scripts (passive/naive) impaired the condom negotiation in collected sexual scenes. The "more a utonomous" scripts were interpreted as availability for "sexual program ". The "non-failing" and "pick the tourists" script s also broadened the vulnerability of young males. The tourist context b uilds a unique sexual scenario and crosses the loca l residents' social- affective trajectory. Political and local health pr ograms must take seriously into account the tourism impact.