Notes forthcoming.

1. Sex Trafficking: What Is It and
What Can We Do About It?
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children (CSEC)
Child Sex Tourism
Linnea Smith, MD

2. Movies
Mass Media Glamorization of
Commercial Sex Industry

3. Faces of Prostitution

4. Fashion Industry
• Elle Magazine
September 2003

5. Fashion Advertising
Teen Vogue Magazine
February/March 2003
Teen Vogue Magazine
April/May 2003

6. Music Industry

7. Pimp ‘n’ Ho Culture

8. Children’s Halloween Costumes
and Fashion For Infants

9. Toys For Young Children
“Party All Night
Under The Lights”
Bratz Dolls

10. Cartoons In Print Media
Playboy
Magazine
May 2006
“Ginger, guess who’s
skipping economics
again?”

11. Playboy
Magazine
April 2005
“Anybody know
about a field trip from
Professor Foster’s
Biology 101 class?”
Cartoons In Print Media

12. Playboy June 2006
Playboy August 1995

13. Mainstream Media
Animated Movie
Targeting Children
Promotional Offer in
Print Advertising

14. “Pimpin’ Grandmas”

15. Las Vegas
GIRLS
DIRECT
TO YOU IN
20 MIN

16. Las Vegas

17. Las Vegas

18. Las Vegas Advertising
Playboy, September 2007
Playboy, September 2005

19. “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”
Playboy, November 2006

20. Media Glamorization of
Prostitution

21. Normalizing Child Prostitution

22. Las Vegas
Official Visitor’s Guide
Public Education Campaign
Atlanta

23. Definitions
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)
The use of children for sexual gratification by adults for
remuneration in cash or kind to the child, or a third
person(s). It constitutes a form of coercion and violence
against children, and amounts to forced labour and a
contemporary form of slavery. It includes prostitution,
pornography, and the trafficking and sale of children as
well as other forms of sexual exploitation.

24. Also referred to as Child Sex Tourism
The sexual exploitation of a child by a person or persons
who engages in sexual activities with the child while
traveling away from their own country or region. This
usually involves some form of payment – either cash or
items such as food, clothing or trinkets
Child
The United Nations defines a child as a person under the
age of 18 unless national laws state otherwise. Many
countries however, have laws that define individuals
younger than 18 as adults
Sexual Exploitation of
Children in Tourism

25. 1 Million + Children Annually

26. Sexual Exploitation of Children in
Tourism (SECT)

27. Reasons for Demand
• Anonymity
• Cultural ignorance
• Rationalization…helping poor
• Racist attitudes
• Sense of economic superiority
• Plentiful supply stimulates demand
• Demand stimulates supply

28. Reasons for Supply (local)
• Poverty
• Economic disparity
• Lack of education
• Rural-urban migration
• Gender discrimination
• Family breakdown or dysfunction
• Consumerism
• Corruption

29. Brazil’s campaign

30. IH&RA’s brochure

31. Display Information
• Windows
• Brochures
• Desktop
• Counter Cards
Old Sticker
New Sticker

32. • Use logo on
business materials
•bag tags
•business cards
•literature
• Use resources to
inform clients
Display Information

33. In-flight PSA
QuickTime™ and a
YUV420 codec decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

34. In-flight PSA
QuickTime™ and a
YUV420 codec decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

35. Source: The Slaves Among Us: Children for Sale! Foreign Policy Association. March 28, 2007

37. UNC Trafficking Conference
Report
April 2006