Sexual tourism

Sexual tourism refers to a person who travel to have sexual relation with people, most of the time with a financial remuneration. 

This relation can be between a prostitute or habitants, who seek themselves sexual relations to have money, because they are poor.Sexual tourism concern essentially Western countries men who travel in developing country. But Western women take also “vacation” in Africa (Senegal, Madagascar, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Morocco, Gambia, Kenya, Tanzania) or in the Caribbean islands (formerly Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Bahamas, Puerto Rico) where young men live by offering their services. Clients are generally from Western Europa, China or Korea.

The country most frequently targeted are the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil and some European countries of east and North Africa, most recently Cuba. Some countries like Brazil, 

Thailand and Morocco have recently introduced policies to fight against this phenomenon often considered immoral or degrading.

country target by sexual tourism

country where clientes are from

country designated like privilaged destination to prostitution and where clients come from

city with many sexual prostitution 

Some countries like France, Canada and Belgium have create some laws to punish themselves people how had relation for hire in another country. 

Every year 850 millions persons travel in the world, 10 % of them choice their destination for sexuel offer, according to a report of the 2 june 2007 during a the First Global day on responsible tourism. Prostitution is considerated today like the third trade in black market.

 

Clientes justify themselves with simply and falses justifications like :

“ In this country is different, they love us”

“Sexuality is natural in them culture”

“With us, they can live and eat”

Sad reality...

 ... because we knows that often clients don’t care about prostitute age, if they are major or not, consenting or not. 

We can find two types of profile, quidam and pedophile regressive. Quidam is a occasionally cliente, after a drink or a drug, who accept a sexual relation very cheap. This people are often a man, married with a good job and his family in his country  who want a new pleasure. To conclude, it’s a man feeling powerful because he have money. After, we have pedophile regressive, who have frequently access to child prostitution to have a relation, illegal in their country. Some boys believe that they are protected of AIDS.

 

ASIA

Asia is the area the most touched by sexual tourism. In Thailand, there are 2 billons of prostitute and 300 000 are minor. Every year, more than 800 000 tourists went to profite of these young prostitutes. In Cambodia, 44 % of prostitute had their first relation with an Occidental, met in bars or nightclubs. In Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia sex industry represent between 2 to 14 % of GDP of these countries.

 

beach boys

In Africa (Jamaique, Kenya, Senegal Gambia, Madagascar), boys are called "beach boys" or "guides”. Beach boys find rich white tourists from seeking more than sun, sea. The majority of the beach boys are about 25 years wear dreadlocks, and tight t-shirts that put their biceps in value.

Their incomes are from time to invite tourists to eat in expensive restaurants, to make excursions, and who left him some money at the end of their stay. During the high tourist season, as summer, beach boys may have up to five or six different sexual partners. In addition, it recognizes that most women are more than 60 years.

In Senegal, economic and sexual exchanges between young Senegalese men and European tourists, the French and Italian and German, generally older, have gained visibility indisputable.

Children and sex tourism

Asian countries, including Thailand, India, and the Phillipines, (2-14% of the gross domestic product derives from sex tourism) is the first destination for children sex tourists. However, nowadays, this trade is travelling to Mexico and Central America.

Studies point out that child prostitutes receive between two and thirty clients per week, between 100 to 1500 clients per year (many children below the age of 10).

Factors supporting Children prostitution

- The most significant reason that brings children into prostitution is poverty, often correlates with limited employment opportunities, illiteracy, and bleak financial circumstances.

Then, children in these poor families are easy targets for pimps who ensure them jobs in a city and then push the children into prostitution. Moreover some poor families themselves prostitute their children in order to get money.

- Internet has also fostered the children sex tourism: websites show potential child with pornographic accounts.

- Finally, actions by governments may further child sex tourism. Some governments have increasingly oriented tourism in their search for sources of income ( Thailand, India…). These governments in many cases turn a blind eye to the sex tourism industry to promote tourism in their country.