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	Third World Women's Health: Prostitution and Sex Tourism
		In sex tourism, an American man may pay a sex travel agency for a trip to Thailand which includes airfare, hotel, food, and women for sex.
		Sex tourism agencies originating in New York could be prosecuted under this law.
		Its history of supporting sex tourism in Thailand makes it unlikely that current policy critically considers the effects of sex tourism on women in children.
	haneydaw.myweb.uga.edu /twwh/traf.html (1209 words)

	The New West Indian
		Just as male sex tourism can be understood as an attempt to affirm a given racialised and gendered identity, so female sex tourism appears to reflect a concern to reverse and restore a particular order and to ensure their own position and power within that order.
		Sex tourism allows some Western women to sexualise their bodies in ways that would be difficult to achieve back home and to be desired by highly desirable men.
		The increase in HIV infection in Trinidad and Tobago is attributed to sex tourism, prostitution and pornography.
	www.awigp.com /default.asp?numcat=sextour (2041 words)

	Sex Tourism
		One particular website promised nights of sex "with two young Thai girls for the price of a tank of gas." The easy availability of this information on the Internet generates interest in child sex tourism and facilitates child sex abusers in making their travel plans.
		These governments sometimes turn a blind eye to the sex tourism industry, thus allowing the industry to perpetuate sexual exploitation upon children in order to encourage tourism in their country in general.
		The distorted and disheartening rationales for child sex tourism are numerous.
	www.usdoj.gov /criminal/ceos/sextour.html (1446 words)

	Sex tourism thrives unabated
		While sex has always been part and parcel of the "feel good" tourism industry, new investigations revealed that there is a category of tourists who come to Kenya looking for virgins, buoyed by the universal myth that sex with a virgin could cure terminal diseases such as Aids.
		Tourism officials admit that Kenya's role as a child sex destination has been downplayed for fear that it would undermine the crucial tourism industry that is already reeling from negative travel advisories from the US governments.
		Campaigns against sex tourism is even made worse by the fact that most hotel management lack the knowledge on how to deal with tourists who engage in the vice.
	www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_10656.html (2539 words)

	Sex tourism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sex tourism is travelling for sexual intercourse with prostitutes or to engage in other sexual activity.
		The World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks, with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the tourist with residents at the destination".
		The United Nations opposes sex tourism citing health, social and cultural consequences for both tourist home countries and destination countries, especially in situations exploiting gender, age, social and economic inequalities in sex tourism destinations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sex_tourism (1133 words)

	CD Fact Sheet 3: Comprehending child sex tourism
		As tourism begins to overtake traditional sources of employment, children and young people are encouraged to migrate to tourist areas, in hopes they can earn an income for themselves and their families.
		While the majority of child sex offenders are male, it is also known that women are involved, and in some cases, male and female offenders travel as a couple to avoid discovery.
		Child sex tourist persuade themselves that in another country, normal social and moral restraints can be discarded, along with the belief that one will not be held responsible for his or her behavior.
	www.captivedaughters.org /ByandAboutCD/CDdocuments/cdfactsheet3.htm (613 words)

	SAMAR \| Sun-Surf-Sex Tourism
		Tourism in its modern form developed only after the 1960's in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), although there have been many travellers to the island throughout ancient and colonial times.
		The growth of tourism since then has been very rapid, although there were clear setbacks from 1983 onwards due to the separatist war that has gripped the country for over 17 years.
		When tourism was first imposed on villages, rich outsiders bought up the beachfront land for a pittance and put up hotels before the villagers could realize the value of the land.
	www.samarmagazine.org /archive/article.php?id=82 (3348 words)

	Child Exploitation and Obscenity (CEOS): Trafficking and Sex Tourism
		Much sex trafficking is international, with victims being taken from places such as South and Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, and other less-developed areas to more developed places including Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.
		Together, these statutes prohibit sex tourism and the interstate and international sex trafficking of adults and children, as well as sex trafficking within a state.
		Sex trafficking and sex tourism are heinous crimes that victimize the most vulnerable among us.
	www.usdoj.gov /criminal/ceos/trafficking.html (803 words)

	afrol News - Your Portal to Africa!
		A waiter in the tourism zone may earn around US$ 25 per month and normally will have to sustain 5-10 family members on his or her salary.
		As the child sex industry is becoming better organised, the abuses become more systematic and other types of children are caught in the prostitution networks.
		The new tourism law waiting to be passed by parliament sharpens the reaction on child abuse.
	www.afrol.com /html/News2003/gam001_sex_tourism.htm (1153 words)

	Stop Child Sex Tourism Campaign
		Sex tourists expect anonymity, low-cost prostitution, easily accessible and increasingly younger children, and impunity from prosecution.
		Preventing children from being drawn into the commercial sex trade by transforming communities and families through child sponsorships and interventions like education, advocacy, and the creation of other means to make a living.
		Some of those who engage in child sex tourism are pedophiles who regularly travel abroad for the purpose of having sex with children.
	www.cwwov.org /Projects/Prevention/prevention.html (701 words)

	Sex Tourism
		Elsewhere in the world -- in countries from Thailand to Cuba -- sex tourism is experiencing difficulties as international pressure, including lobbying from church groups, has convinced governments to crack down on child abuse, particularly the near enslavement of young women in the sex industry.
		Yet passing a law won't be enough, because those who profit from sex tourism include a network of people from taxi drivers to hotel clerks to police officers who get their share of sex-tourist spending.
		Sex tourists do not have to slink around dark foreign streets looking for prostitutes or struggle with foreign languages to ask taxi drivers where to find sex.
	gbgm-umc.org /response/articles/sextourism.html (1801 words)

	Sex Tourism - What it is
		Sex tourism is defined as traveling to a foreign country with the intent to engage in sexual activity with others.
		Sex tourism of children would therefore be defined as traveling to a foreign country with the intent to engage in sexual activity with a child younger than the age of 18.
		While much of the initial international attention on sex tourism of children focused on Thailand and other countries of Southeast Asia, there is no hemisphere, continent, or region unaffected by this trade.
	www.missingkids.com /missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=1498 (824 words)

	Sex Tourism - What it is
		Sex tourism is defined as traveling to a foreign country with the intent to engage in sexual activity with others.
		Sex tourism of children would therefore be defined as traveling to a foreign country with the intent to engage in sexual activity with a child younger than the age of 18.
		While much of the initial international attention on sex tourism of children focused on Thailand and other countries of Southeast Asia, there is no hemisphere, continent, or region unaffected by this trade.
	www.mgrfoundation.org /SexTourism.html (824 words)

	Manila Standard Today -- Sex industry throbs with tourism boom -- mar28_2006
		Working as a sex worker in a poor country, which is trying to rediscover tourism as a growth driver of the economy, Claris uses her pretty face and winsome charms to entertain foreign tourists searching for a wonderful experience in the island paradise.
		Most sex workers in the country use aliases to protect their real identities so that they can live normal lives as mothers, wives, sisters and girls-next-door during the day.
		Davao, one of the anchor tourism destinations in the Philippines, is famous for its nightlife.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=business03_mar28_2006 (1609 words)

	SCADPlus: The implementation of measures to combat child sex tourism
		In the wake of the 1996 Communication from the Commission on combating child sex tourism, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on this subject and the Tourism Council adopted a declaration in November 1997.
		At a technical meeting on measures to combat child sex tourism held in June 1997, the tourism industry and the Commission held an exchange of views.
		As regards tourism, the Commission and the Member States are called upon to continue to support awareness-raising measures and the establishment of codes of conduct Efforts must be made to bring an end to child sex tourism from the Member States.
	www.europa.eu /scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l33094.htm (1302 words)

	UNICEF - Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka campaign promotes ‘zero tolerance’ for child sex tourism
		The ‘Zero Tolerance for Child Sex Tourism’ campaign — launched by Sri Lanka’s Tourist Board with support from UNICEF — targets tourists, children and teenagers as well as hotel keepers, journalists, families and community leaders.
		Sri Lanka’s campaign to end child sex tourism targets tourists, children and teenagers as well as hotel keepers, journalists, families and community leaders.
		By increasing awareness and using the threat of heavy prison sentences, the campaign’s overall goal is to check the disturbing and growing tide of child sex tourism in Sri Lanka.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/sri_lanka_34933.html (472 words)

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		I come for sex, of course the sun, but mostly the sex.” A forty-five-year-old Caucasian woman from Chicago voiced the view that American women come to Negril because they are able to get what they cannot get at home.
		He added that sex tourism brought with it many negative implications such as the spread of infectious diseases and a tarnished national image.
		Cummings indicated that tourism interests in the resort towns have better working relationships with the police, and this has prevented the problem from being an overt one.
	www.filmclub.com (2228 words)

	SCADPlus: Combating child sex tourism
		The main perpetrators of child sexual exploitation in tourism are not 'real' paedophiles but people who take advantage of being in another country to ignore the social taboos which would normally govern their behaviour ("preferential abusers" and "occasional abusers").
		As well as making them aware of differences between the foreign country and their own, travellers would be reminded of the need to respect the values of the country being visited and to comply with certain basic rules of behaviour.
		The reasons underlying the supply side of child sex tourism are as numerous as they are complex, although poverty is one of the main factors.
	europa.eu /scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l33093.htm (951 words)

	Enterprise - Fight against child sex tourism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An initiative was launched designed to reinforce the co-ordination, at European level, of information and awareness raising campaigns in the EU countries against child sex tourism (1997-1998).
		Travellers were invited to put the "luggage tag" on their luggage to show their commitment to the fight against child sex tourism.
		STOP (I and II) programmes of incentives, exchange, training and cooperation for those responsible for combating trade in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children (1997-2000) have been merged into a single framework programme on police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters called AGIS (2003-2007).
	ec.europa.eu /enterprise/services/tourism/policy-areas/child.htm (729 words)

	World Vision Australia - Connect - Child sex tourism
		Tourism doesn’t cause child sexual exploitation, but it does increase opportunities for it to happen.
		Children suffer both from the consequences of forced and unsafe sex, and associated harms like threats and beatings, confinement, and a lack of healthcare or education.
		Gradually, child sex tourism is being tackled by the tourism industry, governments and independent organisations devoted to ending the practice.
	www.worldvision.com.au /wvconnect/content.asp?topicID=81 (1014 words)

	Sex Tourism Flourishing In Zambia - Never Mind AIDS
		Sex tourism is taking root in Livingstone, Senior chief Mukuni of the Toka-Leya people has revealed.
		Chief Mukuni said the problem of sex tourism was serious.
		Chief Mukuni encouraged people to play safe sex even if the act was being done for cleansing purposes.
	www.rense.com /general45/sextourismflourishing.htm (519 words)

	SEX TOURISM: a student report for WMST231, May 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Traffickers of sex tourism may face 5-20 years in jail, depending upon the age of the prostitute.
		The German Health Ministry said that the sex tourism industry is contributing to the spread of HIV in Germany.
		In 1994, ECPAT reported that 500,000 children in Brazil were involved in the sex industry.
	www.towson.edu /~loiselle/sextour.html (1799 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel: Poverty feeds exploitation in Brazil's sex-tourism trade
		Chances are, authorities say, they're sex tourists, men seeking flesh for sale thousands of miles from home, in a land where they are anonymous and, by local standards, fabulously rich.
		To reverse the influx of sex tourists, authorities are faced with the daunting task of dismantling an industry that involves not just the hookers and their customers, but cabbies, hoteliers and even real-estate agents, all of whom have cornered their own bit of profit from the traffic in sex.
		As a city councilwoman, Lins was the chief author of a report in 2002 that delved into the phenomenon of sex tourism and criticized authorities for doing little to combat it.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2002182172_sextourism20.html (987 words)

	Campaign Against Sex Tourism/Trafficking
		Protesting the failure of the Japanese government to investigate the death of Maricris Sioson, a woman from the Philippines who was killed shortly after she went to Japan to work as an entertainer, having apparently been dragged into the sex industry.
		Shutting down the Hawaii-based sex tour operator Video Travel, as well as supporting the enactment of a Hawaii state law prohibiting the activities of sex tour companies.
		Other initiatives Equality Now has undertaken in the campaign against sex tourism and trafficking include working for the passage of international and US legislation on trafficking, investigating the willingness of "mail-order bride" companies (PDF, 408K) to provide services to violent men, and organizing an event highlighting true stories of women who survived commercial sexual exploitation.
	www.equalitynow.org /english/campaigns/sextourism-trafficking/sextourism-trafficking_en.html (433 words)

	eBooks.com - Sex Tourism eBook
		Sex Tourism, however, argues that these images are only part of a wider social context.
		Sex Tourism examines the issues which emerge from sex worker-client interactions and from tourists visiting 'sex-destinations'.
		Sex tourism looks at issues of importance to those working in tourism, women's studies, gender studies and social change.
	www.ebooks.com /cj.asp?IID=240519 (499 words)

	Amazon.com: Tourism and Sex (Tourism, Leisure, and Recreation Series): Books: Stephen Clift (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The significance of travel and tourism in relation to the international epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections has been widely recognized for many years.
		Considerable attention has also been given to the impact which international tourism has had on the development of commercial sex industries in different destinations around the world.
		In particular, serious concerns have been expressed about the role of international tourism in promoting the sexual exploitation of children and young people.
	www.amazon.com /Tourism-Sex-Leisure-Recreation/dp/1855676362 (602 words)

	Polemic Space: Sex Tourism
		In a series of articles for tourism and anthropology research journals, Cohen describes various facets of a microcosmic aspect of the wider sex tourism industry in Thailand.
		Though their analysis is too erudite and far-reaching to represent a truly emic understanding of international sex tourism in Thailand, Bishop and Robinson come closest to fully circumscribing the historical, structural, political, and economic forces as well as the significant discursive elements that maintain commercialized sex as an institution.
		Patpong constitutes the discursive center of the international sex industry in Thailand; geographically it encompasses two parallel soi, Patpong 1 and Patpong 2, connecting Silom and Sukhumvit Roads, as well as the perpendicular Soi Cowboy and the nearby Nana Entertainment complex.
	www.msu.edu /~fragachr/asn490/docs/fatalism.htm (1706 words)

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