Sex Tourism and The Workers Feelings.
Author: Amy Davies
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In this conference, sex tourism is the topic that has been chosen to be looked at and the idea of why this niche tourism market it becoming increasingly popular
Tourism usually conjure images of older men visiting foreign countries for some female companionship, often not available at the same price or at all in their home country. However in recent year it has become more popular for female sex tourists in the Caribbean islands over the men (Hall 2001).
In recent years more literature has highlighted in the tourism world how more and more sex tourism is taking place on a daily basis, it is normally seen in the less developing countries.
When it comes to sex tourism among men it is seen that they will travel to countries such as Thailand and China and engage in sexual acts with prostitutes and transsexuals to fulfil their desires.
Many men once they have been to places such as Thailand will come back and visit the same ladies more than once a year, they will keep in contact with them via emails and sending gifts as a sort of bribe to keep them interested. These men sometimes marry the woman that they first met and they move back to their home country with their new husband. (Oppermann 1999)
Sex tourism is a muti billion dollar industry, which involves people travelling other countries or in their own to be a part of it, the countries with the highest rate if sex tourism are: Morocco, Cambodia, Brazil, the Netherlands (Amsterdam) , Thailand, Kenya, Columbia, Bali and The Dominican Republic. (Ashworth et al 1988)
Not only is sex tourism something that we see females participating in a lot, there are also a lot of children being forced into this cruel world and sold for commercial sexual abuse, most of the children involved are under the age of 12. Children have becoming increasingly popular in this sordid world, as the ‘clients’ believe as they are children they are at little risk of any sexual diseases and HIV unlike the older females.
In Thailand it is thought the 40% of the prostitutes available are children, and these are often street children that have turned to this dark world of work as they have no other means of getting by from day to day. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) released a statement saying that they believe that 79% of global trafficking is for sexual exploitation (Cohen 1993).
In 2010 the BBC travelled to the city of Recife in Brazil, to see to what extent the child sex industry has grown too and if there really is a ‘police crackdown’ as they say there is. One young girl at the age of 13 was asked why she was doing this and she claimed it was to fund her mother’s crack cocaine addiction. She would have up to 10 clients per night and ear just £3.50 from each of them.
The young girl went on to say that she started in prostitution at the age of 7 and she’s not the youngest girl working the streets, her little sister was only 11 and at the time, she had been missing with a foreign guy for two days, all to help fund her mother’s habit.
Each month the government will raid brothels and motels and take any under age children into care to help protect them and arrest any offenders that are caught to help give the country a better image.
Some of the children that have been taken to the care homes are also addicted to illegal substances which they have started to take with the shame they feel with what they do, and then they have to go back to the streets each night to fund their habit. It’s a vicious circle for them.
The Sex tourism industry needs to be stopped and more governments need to impose harsher punishments and sentencing to stop the lives of these poor victims being ruined, they need to stop focusing on key areas such as capital cities and focus on the whole country and stop waiting for International aid.
"WTO Statement On The Prevention Of Organized Sex Tourism". Adopted by the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization at its eleventh session - Cairo (Egypt), 17–22 October 1995.
Graburn, N.H.H. 1983 Tourism and Prostitution. Annals of Tourism Research 10:437–442
Oppermann, M (1999); Sex Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol 25, No. 2, pp231-266.
Cohen, E. 1986 Lovelorn Farangs: The Correspondence between Foreign Men and Thai Girls. Anthropological Quarterly 59 (3):115–127.
Tourism usually conjure images of older men visiting foreign countries for some female companionship, often not available at the same price or at all in their home country. However in recent year it has become more popular for female sex tourists in the Caribbean islands over the men (Hall 2001).
In recent years more literature has highlighted in the tourism world how more and more sex tourism is taking place on a daily basis, it is normally seen in the less developing countries.
When it comes to sex tourism among men it is seen that they will travel to countries such as Thailand and China and engage in sexual acts with prostitutes and transsexuals to fulfil their desires.
Many men once they have been to places such as Thailand will come back and visit the same ladies more than once a year, they will keep in contact with them via emails and sending gifts as a sort of bribe to keep them interested. These men sometimes marry the woman that they first met and they move back to their home country with their new husband. (Oppermann 1999)
Sex tourism is a muti billion dollar industry, which involves people travelling other countries or in their own to be a part of it, the countries with the highest rate if sex tourism are: Morocco, Cambodia, Brazil, the Netherlands (Amsterdam) , Thailand, Kenya, Columbia, Bali and The Dominican Republic. (Ashworth et al 1988)
Not only is sex tourism something that we see females participating in a lot, there are also a lot of children being forced into this cruel world and sold for commercial sexual abuse, most of the children involved are under the age of 12. Children have becoming increasingly popular in this sordid world, as the ‘clients’ believe as they are children they are at little risk of any sexual diseases and HIV unlike the older females.
In Thailand it is thought the 40% of the prostitutes available are children, and these are often street children that have turned to this dark world of work as they have no other means of getting by from day to day. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) released a statement saying that they believe that 79% of global trafficking is for sexual exploitation (Cohen 1993).
In 2010 the BBC travelled to the city of Recife in Brazil, to see to what extent the child sex industry has grown too and if there really is a ‘police crackdown’ as they say there is. One young girl at the age of 13 was asked why she was doing this and she claimed it was to fund her mother’s crack cocaine addiction. She would have up to 10 clients per night and ear just £3.50 from each of them.
The young girl went on to say that she started in prostitution at the age of 7 and she’s not the youngest girl working the streets, her little sister was only 11 and at the time, she had been missing with a foreign guy for two days, all to help fund her mother’s habit.
Each month the government will raid brothels and motels and take any under age children into care to help protect them and arrest any offenders that are caught to help give the country a better image.
Some of the children that have been taken to the care homes are also addicted to illegal substances which they have started to take with the shame they feel with what they do, and then they have to go back to the streets each night to fund their habit. It’s a vicious circle for them.
The Sex tourism industry needs to be stopped and more governments need to impose harsher punishments and sentencing to stop the lives of these poor victims being ruined, they need to stop focusing on key areas such as capital cities and focus on the whole country and stop waiting for International aid.
"WTO Statement On The Prevention Of Organized Sex Tourism". Adopted by the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization at its eleventh session - Cairo (Egypt), 17–22 October 1995.
Graburn, N.H.H. 1983 Tourism and Prostitution. Annals of Tourism Research 10:437–442
Oppermann, M (1999); Sex Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol 25, No. 2, pp231-266.
Cohen, E. 1986 Lovelorn Farangs: The Correspondence between Foreign Men and Thai Girls. Anthropological Quarterly 59 (3):115–127.