What is sex tourism

Sex Tourism is the practice of traveling outside the country or your province to have sexual relations with indigenous peoples, mostly against financial remuneration. These relationships may be of prostitute (s) or local for sex to obtain financial benefits, if not misery.

Sex tourism is a male predominance is generally derived from Western countries to developing or emerging market development - even if local sexual demand is sometimes more important, according to recent studies. 

But some Western women are also "vacation" in African countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia) or the Caribbean islands (Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) which young people live to offer their services. 

Swingers could assist tourism facilities reserved for them, the travel agencies specializing in these tourist services.

The countries sex tourism most often leads (especially Western Europeans, Chinese and Korean as well) are the Philippines and Thailand, as well as some Eastern and North African countries, most recently, Cuba. Some countries, such as Thailand and Morocco have recently introduced policies to fight against the phenomenon often found degrading or immoral [ref. needed]. However, more flexible or easier to move legislation (corruption, etc.), sometimes small local cultures repressive sexuality vis-à-vis institutions becoming aware of the phenomenon, as well as poverty and overcrowding favor the development of this though illegal trade. 

Some tourists seeking sex with children, which is a misdemeanor or a felony (see article Sexual abuse of a minor). To counter this, countries (such as Canada, France and Belgium) have passed laws to punish emergency their own nationals when they had that kind of relationship in a foreign country or have established a so-called universal jurisdiction to punish any person on its territory, and has committed a crime abroad (eg, Switzerland).

1) Legislation: 

The national legislation on sex tourism is not the same, although the similarities are observed. A major difference between the countries on this issue refers to the age at which a person is considered to have reached a "sexual consent" or from which you can have sex freely.
2) For Canada: 

Sex tourism involving minors is illegal to have sex with children, both in Canada and in other countries. 

The Criminal Code of Canada contains provisions to arrest and prosecute Canadians in Canada for offenses committed abroad, such as: 

    + Child prostitution. 
    + The child sexual abuse crimes. 
    + Indecent acts. 
    + Child pornography. 
    + Incest. 

A conviction carrying a maximum punishment of imprisonment up to 14 years. Many countries have adopted similar laws. 

The Criminal Code of Canada in sex tourism involving children (Bills C-27 and C-15A) entered into force on 26 May 1997 and 23 July 2002 respectively. The Penal Code is affected by various extraterritorial jurisdiction related to child sexual exploitation offenses: 

    + sexual contact.
    + invitation to sexual touching.
    + sexual exploitation.
    + anal intercourse.
    + production, distribution, sale, transfer, sale or possession of child pornography.
    + acts or indecent.
    + prostitution of a person under 18. 

Can be found at the Department of Justice Canada more information on these and other 
related provisions of the Penal Code website. 

3) Representation in the literature: 

Sex tourism thrives with bourgeois Travel son of the late eighteenth century and especially in the nineteenth century. Goethe, Lamartine, etc and many other great writers have said, embellishing his "love" of travel, especially in Italy with the girls prostitutes comparable people today ("escorts") Cuba. Flaubert is even more explicit in his writings travel in Egypt, still censored. How are you today oriental loves Pierre Loti? Travel children of the bourgeoisie are opportunities for foreign women are inaccessible to the sex home.

4) Representation in popular culture: 

    1. Books:

         + Platform, a novel by Michel Houellebecq. 
         + The bad life, history of Frederic Mitterrand (ISBN 978-2266157179). 

    2.  Movies:

> To the south, in 2005, Laurent Cantet, Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal. Very rare movie about the female sex tourism, the film focuses on three American women in Haiti in the late 1970s. 
> Lady Bar Xavier Durringer 2006 television film, broadcast on Arte. A suite - Lady Bar - was performed in 2009 The theme of the film is to show, apart from the traditional clichés, the adventures of two French struggling with the complicated intricacies of Thai sex tourism. 
> Paradise: Love, Ulrich Seidl Film 2012 he reality of wealth and elderly European sex tourism in the coastal district of the Kenyan coast of Mombasa (Nyali and Diani mainly) is described.

source: fr.wikipedia.org