Posted September 20, Reviewed by Abigail Fagan. They fly to exotic, foreign countries to find sex. They pay to have their sexual desires fulfilled in so-called "vacations," in which they may purchase hotel rooms, food, and clothes. These people are sometimes called sex tourists, a euphemism for supporting prostitution and in some cases sex trafficking.
Sex tourism is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as travel planned specifically with sex in mind. What started off with predominantly white men from industrialized nations such as Europe and the United States has now broadened to include women and women who are the seekers of these sexual services.
They fly to the Caribbean, Asian, Africa and other countries presumably to buy love. But in t quest. Men and women who participate in sex tourism may find it empowering to be able to purchase sex from whomever they want whenever they want at these locales without considering the deeper ramifications. It's easy to be in denial and justify these behaviors as contributing to the economy, giving sex workers money that's helping their families or insisting these men and women engage in these behaviors willingly.
But there is limited autonomy is selling your body for sex, even if one is doing it with their own free choice. It may not be a choice they would make given other financial circumstances but one that is taken advantage of due to the social, political, and economic disparities of the buyer and seller.
For example, in poor Asian countries such as Cambodia, families commonly sell their children to human traffickers where parents are generally aware of what they are agreeing to, thinking the financial advantage outweighs the spiritual and psychological devastation imprinted on their children. Due to the collective acceptance i.
