Sex Tourists the other face of tourism alessandra

Sex Tourists: the other face of tourism alessandra. fermani@unimc. it

New types of tourists Gulotta, 2003 (an entiere chapter dedicated) Tourism: • macabre • galactic • sustainable • ecotourism • responsible • shopping

Litora castis inimica puellis (Properzio) • The sexual motivations are the basis of 20% of leisure travelers and Italy is the second country after Germany to export “prostituristi” • There's nothing wrong if, on vacation planning, you want to meet love • if you have one goal …is serious : to satisfy our sexual needs because e. g. in Italy it is illegal (child pornography) and can be harmful our image (prostitution)

major destinations in the world (Monni, 2001) • • Philippines Taiwan Thailandia India Ceylon Mexico Brazil Kenia

SEX TOURISM INCREASE, the favorite destinations (pedophile and prostitution) http: //lucascialo. blogspot. it/ how many and who? Draw the Identikit: professional, father, old and young man 3 million departures every summer in the world, 80 000 only from Italy. The average of the traveler who has relationships with children is between 20 and 40 years. Thanks to mass tourism, low cost everybody can travel every corner of the globe has its own tragic specialization. INCREASE IN ITALY, ITALIAN FIRST IN KENYA : The industry of sexual exploitation is widespread , despite the recession. It is supplied generously by the Italians. "In the last few years have climbed heavily on top of this terrible ranking, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil. If earlier in some countries were among the top four or five, today we are no longer in Kenya” Lettera 43. it Marco Scarpati, president of End Child Prostitution pornography and trafficking Italy.

ITINERARY : KENYA - The landing at the airport in Mombasa, once known as the "Island of War", has now become the capital of the tourism industry of Kenya and its ill-products. From here head to the cities of the coast, along the road that leads to Tanzania and which runs parallel to the reef. The girls felt they were here: the nightclubs and shopping malls in and around the Diani Beach resort in Kilifi, to 'Goshi estuary of the river, where the water color changes from green to blue. On these coasts of white-sand postcard, between 10 and 15 thousand girls sell their bodies occasionally, 2 -3 thousand children are prostitutes by profession. 24% of their clients are Italian, a percentage slightly lower than that of residents (35%). Then come France and Switzerland. Occasional customers who may not know that one in a six people in Kenya is suffering from AIDS

COLOMBIA The boom of the Colombian economy is that of child prostitution. From 2007 to 2008, the number of children who sell sexual services has grown from 12 000 to 23 000 (35 000 in 2009). From the Andes to the desert, from the Amazon to the Caribbean, Colombia offers visitors a kaleidoscope of opportunities. The best known is the bay of Cartagena with the legendary Isle of Tortuga and nightclubs where the girls go hunting for Americans and Europeans on holiday. On July 16 of 2010, however, was pronounced the first sentence against a foreigner, and as fate would have it to be an Italian, a 72 -year old from Friuli, Paolo Pravisani. The Colombian police found him in his apartment drunk in the company of a boy dying.

• • • THAILAND - Phouket, Karon Beach and Patong Beach. But Thailand is famous as a temple of child sex tourism. In a few years, has reduced the poverty rate from 21% to 8%. But failed to stem the scourge of prostitution. Indeed, the industry of sexual exploitation has increased the offer and matter boys from neighboring countries, from China to Cambodia. In Bangkok, the red light district is also where the largest number of hotels of the day it is sensible business, at night you spend the gains in pleasure at low cost. The sex (girls between 13 and 15 years) is an additional service, offered in hotels and restaurants for the price of lobster. While in the North East of the country, in the region of Chang Mai, the girls sell themselves in karaoke bars. VIETNAM - Vietnam won France, USA and China. According to a report of the John Hopkins University tourists arriving in the state seek primarily male prostitution. 10% of the sellers of sex are minors and are concentrated in the southern part of the country, the region of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). For research conducted by the International Labour Organization on the sexual exploitation of children, 80% of children of South Vietnam considers prostitution a way out of poverty. CUBA - Before the advent of Fidel Castro had the reputation of “brothel of America”. They welcome tourists at the airport to ensure the right of first refusal and to accompany them during the entire holiday. They allow for a cocktail with ice or a trip aboard a cadillac through the streets of Havana. On the beaches European men seeking but today also women pay jinetero, so-called "riders".

• THE CARIBBEAN OF SANTO DOMINGO - compared with 8. 5 million residents, are 25 000 young boys and girls who sell their bodies. Customers are mainly local, but among foreign tourists (about 15%) Italians are third, after the Canadians and Americans. • BRAZIL - In 2014 there was the World Cup, the Olympics in 2016, succeeds in the capitals of Brazil best known, that of the North East, poorer and blacker. Recife, capital of Pernambuco, Natal capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Fortaleza, the fourth most populous city in the country: a half million children engaged in prostitution. Their best customers are the Portuguese, the Germans and Italians.

Bussiness more than $ 6 billion a year, involving more than 2 million children and adolescents • There are travel agencies, websites, magazines and programs pedophile. Companies that offer holiday prize for the most productive employees (Calvani, 1999) • For fear of diseases (Aids - variant and brought to Germany by the German sex tour and that seemed was transmitted through the mucous membranes, sweat etc. . . ) there is a growing demand for virgin children and so suture hymen. • Other deviant actions related to child abuse: drug trafficking, organ trafficking, etc. . . • Consequences. . . diseases, child abandonment, alcoholism, drugs, theft, murder, psychological and social conditions. . . • L. 269 / 98 the accused of sexual abuse will be judged both in the host country both in Italy and the agency are obliged to warn clearly that such crimes related to prostitution and child pornography are punishable by imprisonment even if committed in other countries.

CAUSE • • • Hedonistic vision of life based on pleasure Racism and ethnocentrism Processes of dehumanization Research forbidden, risk and adventure Desire to experiment with new identities on vacation Trends to conceal illicit sexuality in places where it was unknown • Poverty of the countries • Administrations complacent • Evolutionary psychology says that women are made attractive by being young and beautiful, the men from the social prestige. The sex tourists looking for places also do not possess these characteristics can have relationships

Psychological alibi • • It's normal. . . Here women are free The girls here are more mature than their age There are not like our women • So there we do what can not be done here !!!

Romantic Illusion • It feels more fascinating, they discover love as a young. . . with prostitutes in their own country do not go to dinner or walking. . . there is !! The natives are less rushed with tourists. • After the departure of writing letters, mail, sending money. . . • The approach is more like a courtship than a bank transaction We can distinguish: • Sex tourist (more men) vs tourist of idyll (more women)