Tourism has been a major contributor to the economic, social and human development of Morocco. Its social and economic impacts such as the reduction of unemployment and poverty are clearly evident in today’s society. With a growth of 6.0% in its tourism compared to the world average growth rate of 1.6%, the success of the Moroccan tourism sector is without any doubts astonishing. In fact, tourism has become one of the most important sectors for Morocco. It is said that the reasons behind this success are mainly due to the development and implementation of new policies under the reign of the monarch, King Mohammed IV, and the development of certain industries such as agriculture and textile. In this paper, however, I argue that there are other factors behind Morocco’s rapid development in the tourism industry that are ignored due to social and religious reasons. In order to demonstrate this point, I will examine the predominance of sex tourism and prostitution in Morocco and how they play a major role in the development and success of tourism. Finally, I contend that the tourism sector is not sustainable as its social and economic impacts have already started affecting negatively the social life of the Moroccan population. Unless an alternative of sustainable tourism is put in place, this growth in the tourism industry will disappear leading to unprecedented and unwanted consequences. Before examining the sex tourism in Morocco, let us first look at its starting point. The
Sex trafficking is a global problem that involves the exploitation and abuse of girls as well as women. This paper will discuss the problem, with an emphasis on the views expressed by Paola Monzini in her book Sex Traffic: Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation. The paper will look at the causes, consequences and prevalence rates of sex trafficking and will consider the impact of such factors as globalization and women’s poverty in perpetuating the problem or making it worse. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the ways in which a human rights perspective might translate into positive action to eliminate the trafficking of girls and women.
According to dosomething.org, there are approximately twenty to thirty million people that are stuck in human trafficking. In addition, according to the United Nations, there is about 32 billion dollars in human trafficking. Also in the United States, according to the Human Trafficking Center, there is a net worth of 2.5 billion dollars by sexual exploitation or forced labor. In continuation, about 21.5 percent of trafficking is sexual exploitation, 67.9 percent is forced labour, and 10.5 percent is state imposed forced labour.
Sex trafficking can happen everywhere. People do not even realize when it is happening. Someone could be living their life, just as they normally do, and decided to go to the mall. Sometimes they may not even know that a little kid is going to be kidnapped, and later raped. This is what sex trafficking is. Sex trafficking is commonly defined as when violence, drugs, lies, or any other form of coercion is used to force another person to have sex against their will. (Sex Trafficking in the U.S, 1) Sex trafficking is becoming a bigger issue more and more each day. As a society, sex trafficking needs to be known about by everyone so we could prevent, and eventually stop sex trafficking.
Many people don't know the variances between sex trafficking, sex exploitation, sex work, and prostitution. Knowing these differences are very important. In this essay, I will examine how sex trafficking, sex exploitation, sex work, and prostitution are very different yet very connected to one another.
The society’s thinking was not as advanced, and more male dominated. Men were less accountable for their actions. A historian could conclude there was a presence of inequality among both genders, and the effect of education on people’s choices. Also, one could suggest that education on sex trafficking was not enforced, nor important among certain classes of people in Paris. This is reinforced when the author states “Many complaints were made to the police office and by persons of education and remarkable sentiment.”
Sex workers, also known as prostitutes, have been victimized domestically and transnationally due to decriminalization of prostitution where those who deciding to engage in prostitution or sex work are unable to be protected, defend themselves, and are victimized. Sex trafficking occurs in victims who are transported and exploited by traffickers who seek to make profit through forced and coerced sex work. Prostitution and sex trafficking are both sexual violent acts that have been used against victims in different but similar methods. The purpose of this essay is to differentiate sex work between sex trafficking and encourage the decriminalization of prostitution. This research paper argues that the decriminalizing of prostitution improves
The U.S. Department of State defines sex trafficking as “when an adult is coerced, forced, or deceived into prostitution- or maintained in prostitution through one of these means (recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, obtaining a person or for debt bondage) after initially consenting.” Adults are not the only victims of sex trafficking. Children under eighteen are victims as well and are “induced to perform a commercial sex act.” The U.S. Department of State makes a point to say that the rules that apply to the forcible nature of sex trafficking for adults are not applied to children. It is a universal law that child sex trafficking is prohibited as it has too many consequences for children, especially as they age into adulthood.
Therefore, it is important for everyone to do his or her job within the confines of the law. This keeps us in business longer and the workers keep their jobs. It is also important for each employee to do his or her job at the highest level. This keeps the customers happy and the club employed. By this being an entertainment business, we will have some issues with law enforcement.
Regardless of the viewpoint that prostitution is immoral, sexual rights are inherent to all people and they have the right to choose to be sexually active in consensual relationships or not. Admittedly, some clients buy the right to mistreat prostitutes and strip respect for human beings from a person in order to fulfill their desire to be a dominant figure (Doll). Many people use this belief as evidence that prostitutes are degraded and their profession should be illegal. However, Kelly J. Bell, graduate of Simmons College in the area of Psychology, argues, “Men do not own a prostitute when they are paying her for sex any more than a business man owns his factory workers” (Bell 1). Just like any other job, prostitutes are individuals who
There have been many attempts to stop prostitution, but the field is growing more and more. Prostitution has existed for about 2000 years. Throughout the history of humankind, there were many attempts to eliminate prostitution, but no one could stop prostitution. Prostitution is one of the main survival methods for women who don’t have income to support themselves. As long as there is poverty, prostitution will exist forever. Prostitution is not only about women, but also it is about men. Also, prostitution is related to morality because when it comes to money, people are ready to do anything. Besides, some
Something that I found very interesting is that in Thailand men are pushed to be promiscuous while women are supposed to stay virgins before marriage and monogamous afterwards. Prostituting is very common for local people and visitors, girls as young as seven are being sent out to men in need of sexual favors. Many of the men much older, not caring about disease or common morals. For men this is considered a night out with friends but for the girls, some need counseling afterwards to help to recuperate. In Thailand as well, visiting a brothel for the first time for a man is considered a right of passage and that they are easy ways to have cheap sex.
Prostitution, as many of you may know is an exchange of sex for payment. It should be illegal everywhere in the world because of the extreme lifestyle women are forced to live and because of the increase in crime rates. There are three different types of prostitution. The first and most known- street prostitution, the second being escort prostitution and last but not least-sex-trafficking. Prostitution in general is often looked at as shameful in society, however for many women/ young females around the world, this decision was not made by them. What most people don’t know is that many of them have been forced or lured into prostitution by traffickers or pimps. For others, they depend on this exchange because
Prostitution has often been referred to as the oldest profession in the world. Yet the Canadian governing body and courts decline to remember it as a profession.
Sex tourism has become a large part of income when it comes to major sex destinations such as Bangkok Thailand. Sex tourism is defined as "the act of travelling to another country for the purpose of paying to have sex, especially with children"(dictionary.cambridge.org). The main purpose is to have sex with foreign women. In Brennan 's article on Sex Tourism, we learn that like any other tourism, the only people that really benefit from it are the tourists, not even the locals or the women. The women get better financial pay in Bangkok than at other Sex Tourism destinations, but most of the money that they earn goes straight to their husbands. The women there offer themselves in hopes that they will be swept off their feet by the foreign men, specifically by the European men, because their accents are very attractive and the novels by J.K. Rowling are popular and encourage the concept that accents are awesome, that will take them away and marry them and treat them sweetly and provide for them like the men in Julia Roberts ' movie, "Pretty Woman", but they just end up having sex and continuing on their way, unsatisfied, because foreign men see them only as a way to fulfill their own sexual fantasies and desires. Sex Tourism is also heavily based on the internet, where all the information on sexy Asian women and fantasies about them because of are built. The stereotypes are believed all too well and easily. Sex tourism is very hard on the women because of the
Sex Tourism is increasingly spread from one country to the next, especially in developing countries, because the Tourism is one of the big parts revenue for many countries in the word today. This kind of industry has become well-known to the travelers based not by advertising and promotional campaigns, but word-of-mouth that boots-up the demand for tourism destinations. The Sex Tourism becomes the major issue that the world leaders have to step-in in order to prevent its global spread.