A large proportion of sex tourists in South-East Asia are Japanese men. Children in certain African countries such as Kenya and Mozambique with tourist districts by attractive ocean beaches are also now affected by sex tourism. This also applies to children in coastal towns of Brazil that have a tourist industry. In Bogota, in Columbia, the number of sexually-exploited street children, according to information from EPAT, has increased 500 percent during the last seven years. The Dominican Republic also has bathing resorts where sex with children is a component of the holiday objective.
Families sometimes solve their financial difficulties with the help of their children.
They turn a blind eye or are unaware of the child's future employment task. But many children are tempted, lured or kidnapped from distant villages. A long way from relatives and parents they are completely unprotected. Increasing urbanization with single men working in cities and families left at home in the villages, creates a demand for prostitution locally. And small girls are cheaper than adult women.