Phenomenology of young women's sexual risk-taking in tourism

摘要: Abstract Tourist experiences have been conceptualized as heterotopias, and liminoid contra-normative settings offering a license for thrills, situational disinhibition, sexual experimentation. The purpose of this study was to explore the links between tourism young women's behavior, focusing on their perceptions risk-taking in its consequences. Transcendental phenomenology implemented grasp uniqueness individual assess universal meanings phenomenon, proceeding through stages epoche, phenomenological reduction, imaginative variation, synthesis. findings fifteen in-depth interviews reveal that is complex multidimensional phenomenon involving physical, health, social, emotional, mental/self-perceptional, cultural, legal aspects. Clarifying dimensions consequences benefits literature terms shedding light an under-researched topic provides information health education/intervention programs aimed at addressing risk behaviors tourism.