The sex trade related to tourism in Cartagena de Indias is linked to socio-cultural characteristics and is linked to socio-cultural characteristics established by the communities resident in the city, which are integrated into other variables coming from inland cities and international and global issues that tourism and globalisation of trade have brought together in the urban setting of the country’s first tourist destination. This essay seeks, through a narrative and visual exercise, to reflect on how these socio-cultural elements combine in our present reality to recreate the history of the body economy and erotism, as well as the ways of integrating tourism into such dynamics.