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Posted by TJResearcher on March 21, 2001 at 08:28:39:

A few months ago, I contacted this board and recruited some of its members to participate in a survey for my research on the Tijuana sex industry. I'm still working on that data, but I wanted to provide an update on where my research is currently heading.

This is my website:
http://home.mindspring.com/~blackbryr2/index.html

In it, you will find some useful links to other sites, as well as a great bibliography to browse through (if you like to read). The project description only comprises a portion of my current work, and it was written to get funding from the Social Science Research Council. Ironically, if you read the project description you may quickly realize that it is a proposal which has been edited for placement on a webpage. Any proposal requires you to look like you know whats going on before you start your research - and yet anthropologists work in exactly the opposite direction - they want to find the answers to questions that the community itself finds interesting and relevant. Well, I'm not there yet.

The site doesn't include a thing about the data I'm collecting from customers, or from the TJ scene in general - the observational work I've been doing in Zona Norte, for example.

Anyway, take a look if you want, but try to remember it doesn't summarize all the interesting stuff I see now that I'm living in Tijuana.

Now -- I have a few questions and I thought it might be fun to get your responses listed here, instead of through email:

1) How much money do you spend on your hobby/habit/activities in Zona Norte every year? This would include things like transportation to and from, beer, food, hotels, tips, and of course, sexual services.
2) What proportion of your total annual income gets spent in Zona Norte?
3) What proportion of that money goes towards sexual services alone? In other words, how much of your dollar actually goes to the service providers themselves?
4) If there are any Mexican economists out there, what city records can I look at in order to determine what proportion of the city's revenue comes from Zona Norte (property taxes, etc.)?
5) Brainstorming: I was talking with a researcher from San Diego State a few weeks ago, and we were wondering how readers of TJHombre/RedSnake/etc. compare to non-readers in terms of activities and money spent in the TJ sex industry. Is this a subset of the total population of customers in that area? If so, what special characteristics set them apart from the general population of customers in Zona Norte?

I found the following shared characteristics among respondents from the TJHombre survey - U.S. origin, English as a first language, income bracket, and little familiarity with other sex industry areas in TJ. How and why is that important? How can I tie this into city tourism and the promotion of the industry directly along the border? How is the scene in La Mesa different?

Thats it for now.
Thanks for your participation :)

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