Sex Tourism

Paper Summary:

This paper defines the term 'sex tourism' and the issues surrounding this topic. The paper discusses the role that underage children play in the sex tourism industry and the devastating consequences that it has on these abused children. The paper then goes on to define 'rape' and the statistics of rape and sexual crimes world wide.

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"The fact that the demand exists for child sex tourism and that child sex tourism is an extremely lucrative industry for everyone but the prostitutes, would seem to suggest that the industry fills a gap. In order to determine whether or not the sex tourism industry meets the sexual needs of men, it is important to discover whether the sexual needs of men include having sex with people who are not in a position to refuse and/or having sex with children. Therefore, one must look at the history of both rape and pedophilia, and whether those two sexual activities fill sexual or other needs, to be able to determine whether or not the sex tourism industry exists to fulfill the sexual needs of men."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bunch, C. 1997, The Intolerable Status Quo: Violence Against Women and Girls.Retrieved April 12, 2006, from http://www.unicef.org/pon97/women1.htm
• Cloud, J. 2003, "Pedophilia," Time Magazine, [Online]. Retrieved April 12, 2006 fromhttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020429-232584,00.html
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2006, What is Sex Tourism of Children? Retrieved April 12, 2006, from http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=1498
• The Nemours Foundation 2006. Date Rape. Retrieved April 12, 2006, fromhttp://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/date_rape.html
• PBS 2006. Conditions of Antebellum Slavery. Retrieved April 12, 2006, fromhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html

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