Then, 1950s:
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20150729062312im_/https://heartiste.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/beach1950bucket.jpg?w=552&h=414)
Now:
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20150729062312im_/https://heartiste.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/seksiturism.jpg?w=554&h=367)
A reader, German Viking, explains the provenance of the second photo:
This photo was from a story on American and European women going to African and Caribbean countries for sex holidays.
What I really liked about this “Ameriqua, Then and Now” contrast was how it seems in the 1950s photo the handsome family is a metaphor for their nation, happy and full of promise for the future as they walk confidently toward the viewer.
In the second photo, the couple walks away from the viewer, a metaphor for an America receding, turning her back on her people, full of fatty desperation and, well, Africa.
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