The mile high club and sex laws overseas
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What legal risks should travelers know about sex and public intimacy abroad?
I ended up sort of freaking out and trying to figure out where I could get. The morning after pill, heading to the pharmacy that was open for two hours of the day. In my broken Spanish, tried to figure out how to ask the morning after pill and got pretty much shamed out of there. screamed at by an old male very religious pharmacist assuring me that that was extremely shameful and they would never sell anything like that on their island.
Warning adult content. The hookup. Love and on Triple J Making out in the street or having sex in your hotel might be something we can do freely and safely here at home, but it can get you in trouble in heaps of popular holiday destinations. It could land you in jail and even get you deported. Plus, being overseas can make you more vulnerable to sexual assault. How do you deal with it when you're so far away from your friends and family? But first, you'll You'll find out how you can be best prepared for where you're going and what countries have bans or really look down on the simplest of sex acts. With Chris Zire from Lonely Planet.
I think the thing that we all have to recognise is that when we enter a country, when we're admitted into a country, we have to abide by that country's laws. You know, you are a guest of that country. And sometimes we do forget or we assume that the laws are going to be the same as when we're at home. So but they're actually they're most likely that they're not going to be. So a lot of the popular destinations that um that Aussies are tracking. travelling to do have some really kind of what we would think are slightly a c archaic laws when it comes to particularly LGBTQ community um and even just you know really how much skin you can show um as a man or a woman when you're traveling and it's and it it really is quite a complex area.
So one of the things we always advise um is that knowledge is power. So make sure you know um you know you know of the laws when you're about to to choose a destination or you're going to a particular destination because that's gonna um hold you in good stead when you're away.
Do you find that like a lot of young people sort of go travelling not really reading into it and getting blindsided by these things? 'Cause they just expect it's gonna be fine?
Yeah, I think there is a little bit of that. And I think certain types of travellers kind of take a little bit of a holiday from their senses as well. So they actually end up um uh probably unfortunately engaging in some slightly riskier behaviour than they would at home because you're kind of like, you know, you're on holiday from yourself a little bit when you're away. So so there is a little bit of that um checking of yourself that you have to do in terms of w if would you actually behave in this way when you're at home? home. Um so yeah, things to be really careful of. But you know, again, it's really complex out there and we, you know, avail yourself of the laws. And that's why we have at the back of every one of our our guidebooks, we put a whole section on traveller safety.
Um that's for women, the LGBT community. That's yeah really very much, you know, that advice that we put within those columns um so people know that that information is uh is is at hand.
It's the hookup on Triple J. Uh I'm Nat Tencich and I'm with Chris Zayer from Lonely Planet, talking about knowing the laws and culture around sex and how you can be safe when you're having sex abroad. Uh Rachel from Kensington, uh you ran into a bit of a culture clash disaster. What happened?
Yeah, I did. Um It was last year I was travelling by myself, uh, in the Philippines and I found myself one weekend in need of emergency contraception. Uh and it turns out it's very difficult to access, um, if not impossible in the Philippines. Which I was not prepared for. Um, so I did a lot of Googling and I discovered this and I was sort of travelling a around the islands and ended up back in Manila and um walking the streets, going into the chemists, none of them Sell it over the counter.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What legal risks should travelers know about sex and public intimacy abroad?
0:00–4:12
2
How can you safely obtain emergency contraception when you’re stranded in a restrictive country?
4:12–8:09
3
What practical steps should you take to prepare a travel sex‑health kit before a trip?
8:09–12:30
4
Which destinations have especially strict or confusing laws for LGBTQ travelers?
12:30–16:04
5
How do airline jurisdiction and airspace affect the legality of in‑flight sexual activity?
16:04–19:57
6
Why are people more vulnerable to sexual assault while traveling overseas?
19:57–23:51
7
What immediate actions should you take if you experience sexual assault abroad?
23:51–26:32
8
How can you find support and resources after a trauma while far from home?
26:32–29:46