Regional Overview – East Asia

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

In the early years of the 21st Century

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ECPAT - Regional Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in East and South-East Asia  [PDF]

ECPAT International, November 2014

www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_East%20and%20South-%20East%20Asia.pdf

[accessed 21 September 2020]

Maps sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, and child early and forced marriage (CEFM). Other topics include poverty and inequality, migration, armed conflicts, natural disasters and displacement, and traditional practices.

ECPAT - Regional Overview: Sexual Exploitation of Children in Southeast Asia  [PDF]

Deanna Davy, ECPAT International, September 2017

www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Regional-Overview_Southeast-Asia.pdf

[accessed 21 September 2020]

Maps the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, and child early and forced marriage (CEFM).

ECPAT - Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism: Southeast Asia  [PDF]

ECPAT International, May 2016

www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SECTT_Region-SOUTHEAST-ASIA.pdf

[accessed 21 September 2020]

The Global Study provides an overview of the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism. More information and reports can be found at https://www.protectingchildrenintourism.org.

Southeast Asia a Haven for Pedophiles [PDF]

Laura Marquez, ABC News, 17 August 2006

abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2325416&page=1

[accessed 22 September 2020]

The children live in appalling conditions, according to the report, and in constant fear of beatings by both clients and pimps. The report said that prostitutes as young as 10 years old can service up to 30 clients a week. They often suffer from numerous sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.

The Europeans and Americans who go to Southeast Asia as "sex tourists" often rationalize having sex with children with the idea that "they are helping the children financially better themselves and their families," Nair said. "Paying a child for his or her services allows a tourist to avoid guilt by convincing himself he is helping the child and the child's family to escape economic hardship."

The Department of Justice Web site lists an excerpt from an interview with an anonymous, retired U.S. schoolteacher who wrote on a child sex tourism Web site, "I'm helping them financially. If they don't have sex with me, they may not have enough food. If someone has a problem with me doing this, let UNICEF feed them."

Other tourists try to justify their behavior by believing children in foreign countries are less "sexually inhibited." Nair said tourists convince themselves "those countries don't have the same social taboos against having sex with children."

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