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"Childhood should be carefree,
playing in the sun; not living a
nightmare in the darkness of
the soul."
-Dave Pelzer
 What is
Child Sex
Tourism?
Child sex tourism (CST) is tourism for the purpose of
engaging in the prostitution of children, which is
commercially facilitated child sexual abuse.

The definition of child in the United Nations Convention

on the Rights of the Child is "every human being below
the age of 18 years". Child sex tourism results in both
mental and physical consequences for the exploited
children, which may include sexually transmitted
infections (including HIV/AIDS), "drug addiction,
pregnancy, malnutrition, social ostracism, and death",
according to the State Department of the United States.
 Child sex tourism (CST) is the sexual exploitation
of children by a person or persons who travel
from their home district, home geographical

Chil region, or home country and have sexual contact

with children. Child sex tourists can be domestic

Se
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travellers or they can be international tourists.

Touris
CST often involves the use of accommodation,

x transportation, and other tourism-related services

which facilitate contact with children and which

m enable him or her to be anonymous to the

surrounding population and environment.
Child sex tourism, part of the multibillion-dollar global sex
tourism industry, is a form of child prostitution within the
wider issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Child sex tourism victimizes approximately 2 million
children around the world.

The children who perform as prostitutes in the child sex

tourism trade often have been lured or abducted into sexual
slavery.
Child-Sex Tourism
Where, Who and
How?
Where
?
 Child sex tourism has been closely linked to poverty,
armed conflicts, rapid industrialization, and exploding
population growth. In Latin America and Southeast
Asia, for instance, street children often turn to
prostitution as a last resort. Additionally, vulnerable
children are easy targets for exploitation by

Where
traffickers.South Africa,United States, Thailand,
Cambodia, India, Brazil, and Mexico have been
identified as leading hotspots of child sexual

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exploitation. Also, child victim ages have been found in
Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand to
range from 6 to 11 years old, followed by 12 to 15 years
old, and 15 to 17.Child sex tourism has also been
complicated by varying ages of consent laws where,
for example, the age of consent is 13 in Japan while it
is 21 in Bahrain (see ages of consent in Asia).
Brothels and clubs
Beach and streets in tourism
destinations
Hotels and guesthouses
Rented accommodation
(residences, apartments, villas,
etc.)
 Users of children for commercial and sexual
purposes can be categorized by motive. Although
PEDOPHILES are popularly associated with
child sex tourism, they are not the majority of

Who users.
There are two types of offenders:

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•Situational Child Sex Offender
•Preferential Child Sex
Offender
Pedophil
e
Suffering from a clinical condition/pathological
disorder, the pedophile desires sexual contact with
children exclusively and not with adults. Usually,
this preference is for pre-pubescent children.

Very small minority of child sex

offenders
Situational
Sex Offender
Child
Abuses children by way of experimentation,
sexual indiscrimination, or through anonymity
and impunity as a tourist. He or she does not
have an exclusive sexual inclination for children.

Majority of child sex tourists

Preferential
Sex Offender
Child
Active sexual preference for children. The
preferential sex offender can be someone who
prefers sexual contact with children in general or
someone who feels sexual desire for children
exclusively.

Minority of child sex tourists

Colonial or Historical Routes:
French tourists in West Africa
UK citizens in India
Japanese nationals in South-East
Asia

Regional Routes:
US and Canadian citizens in Mexico and the
Caribbean
East Asians in South-East Asia
Scandinavians in North-East and South-East
Europe

HOWEVER, unexpected child sex tourism routes include:

Italian tourists to Colombia
Swedish nationals in Paraguay
Swiss man in South Africa
Victims tend to come from disadvantaged
backgrounds:
Poor
Living on street/beach
Ethnic minority
Low-level education
From dysfunctional or broken family
Abused in home

Middle-class background
Influenced by materialism and consumerism
(often as a result of peer pressure)
Unaware of dangers/consequences
Wealth discrepancies between
tourists and underprivileged
local children
H ow
Working children and street
children are directly exposed ?
to tourists
Travel:
Organised tours.
Independent travel

Access to children:
Third party (taxi drivers, waiters,
vendors) Direct contact with children
(street/beach children, organisations
working with children)
Payment:
To third party (pimp, brothel
owner, family member,
accommodation owner)

Directly to child Grooming

process/emotional engagement
with child
Major
Factors
Unregulated tourism
development Widespread
poverty
Weak enforcement of law
Demand for sexual contact with
children Economic discrepancies
Materialism and consumerism
Misconception
s
All child-sex tourists are
foreigners All child-sex tourists
are older men
Child-sex tourism takes place only in sea and
sun destinations
Minors are happy to engage in child-sex tourism and
do so out of choice (the issue of consent)
Child-sex tourism takes place in South-East Asia and
South America only
Child-sex tourism is caused by the minors who engage in
Impacts
(society)
Health risks - especially HIV/AIDS and STDs affect
local community
Social and cultural damage: loss of cultural
identity and dependency on tourist dollars
Damage to image of destination and tourism
industry- EXTREMELY difficult to shed image of sex
tourism Undermines sustainable tourism
development unstable investment prospects
Impacts
(individual)
Long-term psychological (and possibly
physical) traumatisation
Health risks - especially HIV/AIDS and STDs
Stigmatisation by family and close community
Economic difficulties resulting from
marginalisation vicious circle leading back to
prostitution
Loss of self-esteem
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