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 …

…h in Taiwan, between 40,000 and 60,000 children are sex workers „h in China, the estimates of child sex workers range from 200,000 to 500,000 „h in Brazil, the estimates of child sex workers range from 500,000 to 2 million „h in the Dominican Republic, there are an estimated 25,000-child sex workers „h in West Africa, an estimated 35,000 children are sex workers „h in the United States, estimates of the children being exploited through prostitution and pornography range from 100,000 to 2.4 million