Child_Prostitution_and_Sex_Tourism

Child Prostitution and Sex Tourism Child prostitution is not new. But today it has assumed the proportions of a multibillion-dollar industry, with children being bought, sold and traded like other mass-produced goods. Although child prostitution exists worldwide, the center of the child sex industry is Asia, where approximately 1 million children are prostitutes and the number is still growing. Child sex tourism is a significant component in the sexual exploitation of children and one that is expanding. It involves an individual traveling to a country with the inten-tion of seeking out sex with children. Glossy brochures as well as web sites on the Internet advertise packages for travelers complete with airfare, hotel, and directions to local brothels. This epidemic is spreading to other poverty-ridden areas of the world such as Latin America and Eastern Europe. As troubling as it may sound, the explosion of the child sex trade comes down to two basic market forces: supply and demand. Environmental stress and the rapidly widening gap between the rich and the poor are producing more potential exploiters of the sex industry. And the sex traffickers have stepped in to take advantage of the situa-tion while society has simply looked the sex, children, child, workers, estimated, prostitution, prostitutes, industry, range, poor, million, estimates, between, being, 100000, web, tourists, tourism, supply, sri, social, sites, sexual, promote, poverty, potential, pornography, one, often, market, internet, income, exploited, countries, chil-dren, brothels, approximately, aged, worldwide, world, work, widening, while, west, were „h, way rural, vietnam „h