Sex
tourism is defined in this report as travel by buyers of
sexual services for the purpose
of procuring sexual services
from another person in exchange
for money and/or goods. Sex tourism
is one market that uses victims
of sex trafficking to satisfy
the demand of buyers. Sex tourists
create a demand that drives the
recruitment of more victims to
be trafficked to commercial sex
markets.
Sex trafficking is defined in this report as the recruitment,
harboring, obtaining, or transporting of persons by use of force,
fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to commercial
sexual exploitation. If the victim is less than 18 years of age,
no force, fraud or coercion is required to prove trafficking.
According to United Nations Protocol, anytime a person is recruited,
harbored, moved, forced, tricked, or coerced into a paid sex act
they have been trafficked. And anyone under the age of eighteen
in any commercial sex act is automatically a trafficking victim
as well.
The marketplace of commercial sexual exploitation is defined
in this report as the buying and selling of individuals for the
purposes of sexual exploitation in exchange for anything of value.
Buyer is defined in this report as any person who purchases a
commercial sex act.
Facilitator is defined in this report as any person who profits,
directly or indirectly, from the sale of commercial sex acts.
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