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Kiddy Sex: Luring the Tourist for Love Beneath the Palms
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MODERN THOUGHT
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2 / 1995 |
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Christopher P. Baker
Christopher P. Baker is a freelance writer who is currently
preparing a book on Cuba. This article was researched in Cuba
in September 1995. His article "Kiddy Sex--Luring the Tourist
for Love beneath the Palms" appeared in the Currents in Modern
Thought section in February 1995. |
Veronica is just one of more than one million tragic young victims lured, sold, or forced into prostitution worldwide every year, according to a recent Norwegian government report to the UN Working Group on Slavery. "Selling a fourteen-year-old girl has become so commonplace, it is banal," laments Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's rights department. In Bogotá, Colombia, the number of prostitutes under thirteen has quintupled since 1987. Brazil now has over 250,000 child prostitutes; Moscow, more than 1,000.
OWNED CHILDREN
In Asia, child chattel has reached epidemic proportions. In Thailand--a country of fifty-six million--relief agencies estimate that there are now two million prostitutes, up to eight hundred thousand of them children under sixteen. Studies suggest there are at least three hundred thousand child prostitutes in India. In the Philippines, the Institute for the Protection of Children reports that 9 percent of prostitutes were less than ten years old when their virginity was sold to a pimp. And researchers in Sri Lanka believe that the island has at least ten thousand boy prostitutes, each receiving as little as one dollar per day for fulfilling the whims of pedophiles, many of them Westerners directed by grayúmarket guidebooks and pedophile newsletters such as Spartacus International Gay Guide, published in Germany in several languages.
AIDS is sweeping through Asia. Yet a recent survey suggests that 420,000 Thai men visit a prostitute every day, Taiwanese men still arrive by the busload at the Mona Lisa massage parlor on Bangkok's Petchaburi Road, and charter sex tours from Germany, Japan, and Korea continue to ship
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