Sex Tourism

There is also the Nairobi National Museum that is the largest in the country. The museum illustrates the history of Kenya through several displays including handcrafts, fossils of extinct animals, some portraits, and many other exhibits. The museum would be an interesting visit to any history fans who spend their vacations in

Sex tourism in the Dominican Republic is very common. It is defined as an organize vacation with the purpose to have sexual activities with foreign people because of the lack of restriction in the country. It sounds pretty likely as prostitution, but the difference is that sex tourism is only for tourists and prostitution is for everyone. Many women in the Dominican Republic define themselves as sex workers ', who get together with a representative to organize their sexual activities with their clients. However, those women do not identify themselves as prostitutes. Nowadays, not only women are involved in sex tourism, but underage girls too. These girls are being forced to have sexual activities with tourists without their consent these girls are involved into the many risks such as being raped and sold or killed, the used by alcohol and other drugs and get affected by any transitional sexual illness, like HIV. Non-consensual sex tourist where underage girls are being forced to rely on the money needs both for family and company, and also tourist interests and wants.

Prostitution is defined as “business of exchanging sexual services for martial compensation or financial befits” (Weitzer, R. J, p8). The practice usually happens legally in modern cites like Vegas, Berlin and

In a review by the New York Times, the author, Stephen Holder, highlights the context surrounding prostitution in each different country. From Thailand having a high end brothel ran by rich Asian men, to Bangladesh full of towering, run down apartments oversaw by madams,

“Sex tourism, a sub-sector of Cuba's prosperous tourist economy, is a significant industry and a major employer for many Cuban women and girls. This is obvious by the number of women seen in the streets, bars and

Reluctant Bedfellows is a book that shows the research of two depicted women who spent 5 years doing research on sex tourism in the Philipians and

“This map shows the legal status of prostitution (not activities surrounding prostitution such as brothels, pimping, etc.) by country. Prostitution is engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods,” (2).

Christiansen was assigned by the Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to go to Samoa to see the scope of child sex tourism, determine the root cause of child sex tourism and recommend a bassline foundation for policy and research. As taxis were one of the vacillators to sex tourism, (some involve being in a hotel or bars for prostitution) once the cultural adviser of Samoa gathered a taxi driver in a group, Christiansen took the sample of the group and begin to interview and surveyed many taxi drivers to attain their view points of the sex tourism affect Samoa children. What taxi drivers found about tourism was that it develops economic growth for the country and create a healthy relationship among them. With the topic of child sex tourism in Samoa, taxi drivers are aware of the extortion and the lack of report to law enforcement of the event. Some taxi drivers know where to pick up child prostutes and have low financial income to support themselves. Some important root causes that were found were financial pressures, legal process and law enforcement, shame, and the child as individual and the right to privacy. What it is very important from these finding were that some taxi drivers were motivated from financial reasons. Most residents in Samoa are in poverty and needed to find some way to earn

The growing popularity and declining cost of travel and the rise of new communications technologies had changed the nature of sexual exploitation by facilitating the rise of global sex tourism. Prostitution had occurred throughout history. Prior to the last quarter of the 20th century, it was common in poorer countries for the female children to sell themselves for sex, in order to help their families survive.

Tourism in Kenya has expanded since 1963. People travel to Kenya because it is such a beautiful country and has the most spectacular wild life. I attended African

Over last few decades Cambodia has faced the consequences of the Vietnam War and the Pol Plot genocide, which left the country economically despaired and nearly half of the population under twenty years old. Cambodia however attracts many visitors from across the world for its rich culture, fascinating temples and picturesque beaches. Unfortunately, Cambodia is also known for sexual tourism and in particular child sex tourism. The international community recognizes Cambodia’s trafficking epidemic, which child sex tourism falls under, and the United States ranks Cambodia as Tier Two on its Trafficking Persons Watch List. It is important to note that there is no internationally agreed upon definition of child sex tourism which in return perpetuates the problem. One may broadly define child sex tourism as the “sexual exploitation of children by a person who travels from his or her home region in order to have sexual contact with children. Child sex tourists can be domestic travellers of international tourists.”

Prostitution is defined as the act of “providing or receiving sexual acts, between a prostitute and a client, in exchange for money or some other form of remuneration” (Hock 557). The idea of exchanging sex for valuables has been around since the beginning of human society. The first reported data about prostitution was reported around 3000 B.C.E in one of the first known civilizations, Mesopotamia (Caraboi and Fierbinteanu 362). It is often referred to as “the world’s oldest profession.” Today, even though prostitution is illegal in most parts of the world, it is still prevalent worldwide with different ways to exchange sexual services for payment and many different types of prostitutes. One of these types of prostitutes are brothel workers; brothel workers work in “a house of prostitution,” a brothel, which are normally in areas where prostitution is not criminalized or is legalized (Hock 560). Like prostitution, human trafficking has been around for thousands of years and is still present today.

The modern world today is proud to recognize the equality that has been acknowledged between age, gender, and race. Women are beginning to be treated as equals with men, in new customs, lifestyle, society, and economy. Today, women are freer and are liberated from their traditional roles as housewives, and are pursuing their hopes and dreams. However, this is not the case in many regions of the world. In the developing countries, thousands of females are dehumanized by prostitution and the trafficking of women and children is dehumanizing which serves only to benefit men. It exploits and violates the rights of women in the developing world. Sexual exploitation, which includes sex tourism,

With child prostitution comes child pornography. Child pornography is the exploitation of children for sexual stimulation. It may produce with consent or non-consent. However, some people travel across the world to engage in “child sex tourism”. “Child sex tourism” is tourism for the purpose of child prostitution. “Child sex tourism” is most severe in South America and Asia, but is still a global problem.

Sex tourism is the act of tourists traveling to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes that are residents of the destination. A sex tourist is an adult that travels in order to have legal consensual sexual activities with another adult for gifts and most often money. By using existing tourism methods of travel these activities have become easily feasible for any individual looking to explore this sector of tourism. Creating a normal vacation with the intention of having sexual relations is a simple process. Sex tourism benefits every sector of the travel industry including: airlines, taxis, restaurants, and hotels. Some regions of the world, that have already developed a