REVEALED : WONDERS OF BRAZIL
AMAZON IS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE WORLD
BRAZIL RAKES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM SEX TOURISM
By RAHAD ABIR,ABDULMUMINI ADEKU
The Long stretch of beach along the coast of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil is one of the freest spot for Tourism in the world
Thousands of visitors are expected to come to Brazil this summer for the World Cup. Determined prostitutes are reportedly learning English and making deals with banks in order to receive credit card payments. For them this appears to be a serious opportunity.
In Brazil, prostitution is legal for those who are eighteen or older. But this South American nation has the worst level of child prostitution—between 250,000 and 500,000 children reportedly involved in the business. Critics warn underage prostitution is believed to have soared during the World Cup.
Prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, in the last five years, has undergone a makeover, especially in the richest and largest cities. Brothels in Brazil are now competing with hotel bars and nightclubs. Girls are drawn to prostitution, because of the easy money, while salaries, on the other hand, are very low in Brazil.
Brazil is the world’s largest Catholic country, which, up until the mid-1980s, was ran by a dictatorship. Because of a democratic government and a stable economy, Brazil has become a more liberal nation since the 1990s. The reason sex industry has boomed here is because the country has a greater acceptance of pornography and has become more open in talking about sex.
The internet has also had a big influence. There are various sites in Brazil with thousands of girls’ pictures who can be called up to meet for sex. However, as the law insists, the word prostitution cannot be used in Brazil.
Brazil World Cup and sex tourism, it is anticipated, both the factors will attract the tourists traveling there in coming June. Brazil has many exotic beaches, attracting record numbers of tourists. But the country’s erotic reputation has long been attracting an unwanted type of tourists. Many Brazilian holiday operators bring in thousands of European singles looking for cheap sex.
In São Paulo the Café Millenium is reportedly the biggest brothel, with about 300 girls on a busy night. Inside there, there is a bar, a dance floor and hourly rooms to be rented. It has also a swimming pool, a restaurant, a stage for musical performances, a hairdressers, a shop and a fitness center.
As night falls the streets of hot tourist spots come alive. Prostitutes mingle with tourists, dancing at their sides and eyeing up potential business. They hang around beach bars to pick up foreign tourists, mostly from Europe.
As hotels started barring girls under 18, clients began to rent apartments or head to so-called love motels. Experts say many underage girls use fake IDs. Taxi drivers reportedly work with the girls who are too young to get into the bars.
The government has recently started distributing thousands of kits containing information on how to report child abuse. The country has also started a campaign titled “happy being a prostitute” that is believed to encourage prostitutes to use condoms.
Between the upcoming World Cup in Brazil and sex tourism, President Dilma Rousseff’s government is now highly concerned about the latter. Both soccer and government officials are trying hard to crack down on the child sex trade before the event kicks off in June. The authorities are attempting to clean up its image as one of the sex tourism capital of the world.
The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; French: Forêt amazonienne; Dutch: Amazoneregenwoud), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 square kilometres (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations contain "Amazonas" in their names. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.[1]
The name 'Amazon' is said to arise from a war Francisco de Orellana fought with a tribe of Tapuyas and other tribes from South America. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the entire tribe.[2] Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the mythical Amazons of Asia described by Herodotus and Diodorus in Greek legends.[2]Sex tourism is travel to engage in sexual activity, particularly with prostitutes. The World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks, with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the tourist with residents at the destination".[1]
Some people regard sexual activity while travelling as a way of enhancing their travel experience. However, social problems arise when particular countries or cities acquire a reputation as a destination or become attractive for sex tourism. Attractions for sex tourists can include lower costs for sexual services in the destination country, along with easier attitudes to prostitution and because prostitution is either legal or there is indifferent law enforcement, and access to child prostitution.
Generally, people who travel to engage in sexual activity with an adult prostitute are subject to prostitution laws of the destination country. When the sexual activity involves child prostitution, is non-consensual or involves sex trafficking, it is generally illegal, both in the participating country and sometimes in the individual's home country.
Sex tourism may be domestic, which involves travel within the same country, or trans-national, which involves travel across national borders. Sex tourism is a multibillion dollar industry that supports an international workforce estimated to number in the millions,[2] that also benefits service industries such as the airline, taxi, restaurant and hotel industries.[3]
Most sex tourism involves males and several countries have become preferred destinations for sex tourists. These include Cambodia, Brazil,[4][5][6][7] the Dominican Republic,[8] the Netherlands (particularly Amsterdam),[9] [10] Kenya,[11] the Philippines, Colombia, Thailand,[12] Cuba,[13] and Indonesia (particularly Bali).[14][15]
Though significantly smaller in numbers, female sex tourism also exists, with the main destinations for female sex tourism being Brazil, Southern Europe (predominately Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Spain), Turkey, the Caribbean (led by Jamaica, Barbados and the Dominican Republic), parts of Africa (Tunisia, Gambia, Kenya).[16] Other destinations include , El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Fiji.[17]
University of Leicester sociologists studied this subject as part of a research project for the Economic and Social Research Council and End Child Prostitution and Trafficking campaign. The study included interviews with over 250 Caribbean sex tourists.[24][25] Amongst their findings were:
- Preconceptions about race and gender influenced the tourists' opinions.
- Economically underdeveloped tourist-receiving countries are promoted as being culturally different so that (in the Western tourist's understanding) prostitution and traditional male domination of women have less stigma than similar practices might have in their home countries.
Some human rights organizations claim that sex tourism contributes to human trafficking and child prostitution.[29] The U.N. opposes sex tourism citing health, social and cultural consequences for both tourist home countries and destination countries, especially in situations exploiting gender, age, social and economic inequalities in sex tourism destination countries.[1][30][31]
Film makers have been active at reporting on sex tourism. Documentaries include:
- Falang: Behind Bangkok's Smile, by Jordon Clark (2005), set in Thailand[32]
- CBC series the Lens episode "Selling Sex in Heaven" (2005), set in the Philippines[33]
- Channel 4 Cutting Edge episode "The Child Sex Trade" (2003), set in Romania and Italy[34]
- Sex Tourism, on Talking Points, from Channel 4[35]
- Channel 4, My Boyfriend, the Sex Tourist (2007), looks at sex tourism around the world[36]
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