What is Child sex tourism?
[[File:8.0995 Pattaya.jpg|thumb|Prostitutes in front of a bar in Thailand: Many of them are there because they were forced or threatened; very often, they are minors.]] '''Child sex tourism''' is [[Tourism|travelling]] to another country or area, to be able to [[profit]] from [[child prostitution|children who prostitute themselves]]. Like [[child prostitution]], child sex tourism is bad for the health of the children. It has mental and physical consequences, which include [[sexually transmitted infection]]s, (unwanted) [[teenage pregnancy|teenage pregnancies]], and [[drug addiction|addiction to drugs]]. Child sex tourism is part of the multibillion-dollar [[sex tourism|global sex tourism industry]]. It is a form of child prostitution within the wider issue of [[commercial sexual exploitation of children]]. Child sex tourism affects approximately 2 million children around the world.<ref name=deptstate>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/tip/rls/fs/08/112090.htm|title=The Facts About Child Sex Tourism|work=Fact Sheet|publisher= US Dept of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons|date=February 29, 2008}}</ref><ref name=klain>Klain, ''Prostitution of Children and Child-Sex Tourism: An Analysis of Domestic and International Responses'' 1999, ABA Center on Children and the Law, page 33 cited in {{cite web|url=http://www.yapi.org/rpchildsextourism.pdf |title=Global Child Sex Tourism: Children as Tourist Attractions |author=Susan Song |work=Youth Advocate Program International Resource Paper |publisher=Youth Advocate Program International |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903204735/http://www.yapi.org/rpchildsextourism.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-03 }}</ref><ref name=farrell>{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0422/p11s01-wogi.html/|title=Global campaign to police child sex tourism |author=Michael B. Farrell |date=April 22, 2004 |publisher=Christian Science Monitor|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228073606/http://www.csmonitor.co