Child
Prostitution in the first ten years of the 21st Century.Reports on CSEC, commercial sexual
exploitation of children, teenage and underage prostitution, forced
prostitution, and sex with children in general.
Child
Prostitution
The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children
Child Prostitution encompasses the exchange of sexual
services for remuneration or for other forms of consideration,
including food,
housing, drugs, or other commodities or intangibles such as approval or
care.It is an age old and global
problem that has existed for centuries.
Historians will look back in puzzlement at the way
our 21st century world tolerates the slavery of more than a million
children in brothels around the world. - Nicholas D. Kristof, January 22, 2006
This brothel keeper and her
slaves are in a red-light district in Mumbai, India. The women and girls used
in prostitution may be exploited 10 to 40 times a night, sometimes keeping as
little as 20 rupees (less than 50 cents) per encounter. The Madam takes the
biggest cut for herself, then pays the landlord, the pimps, and her
"protectors."[photo by Kay
Chernush for the U.S. State Department]
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CITE AS:Patt, Prof.
Martin, "Child Prostitution", http://gvnet.com/childprostitution/,
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website
created by Prof. Martin Patt, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts
Research
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