Sex Tourism

Cannes 2012: Margarethe Tiesel Up for Best Actress: "I Am Not Proud"

Karin Badt | Posted 05.21.2012

Karin Badt

The buzz at Cannes is that Margarethe Tiesel, the lead in Ulrich Siedl's Paradise: Love, may take the Best Actress award for her exuberant performance as the dumpy woman who comes to Kenya to pick up beach boys.

Cannes 2012: Ulrich Seidl's Love and Beach Boys as Sex Toys for Older Women

Karin Badt | Posted 05.21.2012

Karin Badt

What makes this film hard to watch is that we know it is true. The sex tourism of European women in Africa is growing, and the neediness of the women and the exploitation of the boys strikes us as very real.

Pleasure Robots Are The Future Of Sex Tourism, Report Says (NSFW)

Posted 04.18.2012

They don't spread disease and they can't be sold into sex slavery. Those are just two of the advantages of robot prostitutes, which will be edging ...

Sex Tourism, the Secret Service and the Harms of Buying Sex

Rachel Durchslag | Posted 04.16.2012

Rachel Durchslag

Over the weekend, Secret Service agents were allegedly caught buying sex while in Colombia to protect President Barack Obama. Right away, the media an...

PHOTOS: The Five Artiest Brothels In France

Tony Perrottet | Posted 03.06.2012

Tony Perrottet

By the early 1900s, the so-called "fantasy brothels," which offered Disney-style themed rooms along the lines of Versailles, Venice and the Orient, had opened themselves up to tourists by day.

Sex Tourism In Senegal

Maya Lau | Posted 11.07.2011

Maya Lau

By night, the Europeans sit at long dinner tables by the pool, each of their arms slung around young Senegalese women. It's like they are all on a singles retreat or at a swingers' party. Everyone canoodles with everyone else.

"So Many Girls! So Little Time!": Behind the Facade of Sex Tourism

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

Big Apple Oriental Tours, an international sex tourism agency, brazenly flaunts its services on the Internet.

Professor Behind Thai Sex Tourism Site Digs Himself Deeper

Angus Johnston | Posted 05.25.2011

Angus Johnston

Let's say you were a professor at a public university, and let's say you were a fan of Thai sex tourism.

Holding Men Accountable for Sex Trafficking

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Abby L. Ferber

Too often when we think about human trafficking, we think of it as a problem "out there." But this year, for the first time, the U.S. State Department included the U.S. in its annual report on trafficking.

South Africa World Cup: A Billion Condoms And 40,000 Sex Workers.

Posted 05.25.2011

By Iva Skoch, GlobalPost CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The taxi drivers hustling around the bars on Long Street in Cape Town say they are ready for a...

Haiti's Women in the Aftermath of Disaster

Taina Bien-Aime | Posted 05.25.2011

Taina Bien-Aime

Violence against women is an unaddressed catastrophe in Haiti. With limited government capacity in Haiti, we can only shudder at the potential havoc criminal profiteers could trigger there.

Frederic Mitterrand, French Minister, Fights For Job After Boasts Of Sex With Young Boys

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

John Lichfield | The Independent The new French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, is fighting to save his brief ministerial career after opp...

SHOCK: Actor Known For Playing Santa Claus Gets Prison For Role In Global Sex Tourism Ring

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 05.25.2011

NEWARK, N.J. — A small-time actor and former children's entertainer who was known for playing Santa Claus was sentenced Monday to nearly 20 year...

Child Sex Boom Fueled By Global Recession

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Narisaraporn Asipong, a matronly social worker at the "Mercy Center" shelter met 8-year-old Niran (a pseudonym) five years ago in...

WATCH: ABC Investigates Alleged Sex Predators in Cambodia

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

ABC News "Nightline" investigated American pedophiles living in Cambodia for a special news report that will air tonight. ABC News traveled to Cambodi...

In Carradine Death Thailand's Sex Caricature Endures

Greg Barrett | Posted 05.25.2011

Greg Barrett

If Thailand wants invitations to closed-door U.N. meetings, it needs to stop marketing its women and children.