Men on the Internet frequently give the average local income as part of the general information about the country or city. This information is used to explain and justify why the women can be bought for so little money compared to a man's income in an industrialized country. As sex tourism grows cities and countries gain international notoriety for prostitution. With pimping and soliciting saturating the environment, all women in public are seen as prostitutes and all men as pimps. Turning a woman's sexuality into a commodity to be bought by any man deprives her of dignity and bodily integrity which are basic human rights.
Prostitution is a violation of women's human rights.
Documents drafted at the NGO Forum and Fourth World Conference in Women in Beijing all firmly state the need for an end to the sexual exploitation of women. The promotion of prostitution of women through sex tours on the Internet expands men's treatment and access to women as sexual commodities. The Internet is the fastest growing and most unregulated communication network in the world. It is a rapid publishing medium that can reach its readership anywhere in the world within minutes. These factors make it a thriving site for the global trafficking in women leading to an escalation of the global sex trade.