“Santo Domingo: Sexo Urbano”

The HBO Latino television network feature “Santo Domingo: Sexo Urbano” again unveils the often unspoken tourism of “prostitution, lesbianism and homosexuality" in the Dominican Republic.

On Sunday night HBO’s repeated the documentary, first aired on February, 2006, whose content sparked reaction in Dominican society, in the various churches, and the government.

The documentary says Dominican Republic, in addition to being the land of the merengue, beautiful beaches, the “Pear of the Caribbean” has beautiful women and hot-blooded men. “It’s a perfect destination for whoever looks for pleasure and adventure. “Parties in the water, exuberant dancers and lady companions in Boca Chica and the old city, where everything conspires to create a sexual cornucopia for the most adventurous seekers of sex.”

“Dominican Republic is considered a paradise in the middle of the Caribbean. The land of the merengue lodges beautiful beaches, an exquisite gastronomy and majestic places. But also an immense variety of sexual tastes and practices,” the film says.

A “taxi driver” identified as “Peter González” and who’s the guide for the city at dawn is the star in the 49 minute-long production, which features erotic prostitutes, dancing, “masseurs”, lesbians, homosexuals, bisexuals and nocturnal ambiances in Santo Domingo’s main discos, especially the ones located in the Colonial City, El Malecon, and the upscale sectors Gazcue and Piantini.

The “taxi driver” begins the documentary describing Santo Domingo as “a tropical forest in quiet calm by day, but “it’s a night when there’s partying to enjoy, especially with the attractive and sensual skin of our colored women.”

The “taxi driver” adds that Dominican women who go out “to look for it” by night and dawn, “are like birds of prey: always ready to hunt to their quarry.”

Another participant in the documentary, identified as “Natalia,” 20 years of age, says she’s an exhibitionist because she likes to be seen naked. “To party with this body, this mouth and these eyes, imagine that, nobody can resists it and there’s nothing else to say,” adding that walking naked along the streets and beaches excites her, “mainly here in the city where the men watch me and honk their horns at me from cars, I love to walk like that.”

Another “star,” Catherine, 24, says she’s a lesbian, “because between women, sex is understood better because they do know what they like and what one does to the other”. She says she’s a waitress in a bar and isn’t going to change her sexual preference. “In my work I try to enjoy myself with the people I meet, I give them my number and if they call me, I go with them because the good customers always take me to the best hotels and beaches, discos and stores. I enjoy although it doesn’t happen always.”

“Being in bed with a man is really good, but with a woman it’s better, because with her I feel smoothness, sensitivity and texture,” Natalia said.

Also in documentary is “Pily,” an “erotic masseuse” who says she does her work with everybody, but when she performs a massage, if she likes a man, she gas sex with him. “Here in Santo Domingo there’s plenty sexual liberation, no taboos and everybody does what they want with their sexual taste.”