Talk:Sex tourism

message: The North America map has a grey area representing the State of Nevada, where prostitution laws vary by country. That being said, the grey shape on the red US outline looks nothing like Nevada. Can someone correct that please?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.32.203.188 (talk) 18:31, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we talk about that map of the USA? 

message: Hi! I would like to contribute information to this page.
--Lifeisgood20 (talk) 19:22, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contributing 

message: Hi, I think this page is missing a section on gay sex tourism so I am currently working on it. Lifeisgood20 (talk) 18:23, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Sex Tourism 

message: The opening sentence is: "Sex tourism refers to the practice of traveling to foreign countries, often on a different continent, with the intention of engaging in sexual activity or relationships in exchange for money or lifestyle support."
This definition seems to say that sex tourism is traveling to another country and have sex in order to receive money or lifestyle support. I don't think that's correct. Aren't the people who practice sex tourism those who travel to another country and PAY locals there for sex? 2001:4643:1480:0:AD7B:6A5D:4100:A18F (talk) 10:59, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear definition 

message: — Assignment last updated by Discourseparty (talk) 14:23, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Sex, Gender, and Culture

message: The following quote from this article does not form a sentence, and has no meaning: "The World Tourism Organization of the United Nations has acknowledged about this industry is organized both within and outside the structured laws and networks created by them." 162.253.11.91 (talk) 19:54, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar 

message: How come there is no definite information about male sex tourism?
Although the article hints that male sex tourism is more common, there is no information found about it. While female sex tourism even got its own Wikipedia page.
Is this just because of sensationalism? I would really like to get some reliable information, especially regarding the numbers and other countries than South East Asia. Is there a way to flag a Wikipedia article so that hopefully experts on the field get it brought to their attention? The way it is know, people are none the wiser after reading this page. 2A02:3100:3A98:4301:19E8:C2F9:3A5E:4B88 (talk) 16:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Male sex tourism 

message: Given the suspicion behind other widely cited and incorrect statistics in this field and the general difficulty of estimating criminal behavior I've been trying to track down the original source of this statistic and the citation leads to nothing because of link rot:
The current citation. (archive link.) is dead and links to another dead article that isn't archived on the wayback machine.
There are other sources which also list the 250,000 number and I found one which cites this paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281066431_SEX_TRAFFICKING_IN_THE_TOURISM_INDUSTR that claims the number is from World Vision Australia.
Looking at modern publications from World Vision Australia such as https://www.worldvision.com.au/docs/default-source/buy-ethical-fact-sheets/trafficking-and-sexual-exploitation-fact-sheet.pdf?sfvrsn=2
it states that "It is impossible to accurately assess how many people are victims of sex trafficking worldwide" and they don't provide any estimates.
Looking through World Vision's historical publications on the wayback machine however I found this This article which states that there were 250,000 sex tourists total and that that number includes child sex tourism. The wording of the paragraph is quite confusing and it seems believable that someone could have misinterpreted what the number meant when citing and that that misinterpretation eventually ended up on Wikipedia.
That World Vision document also claims that the actual source is from a childwise document retrieved in 2009 but the same url in 2010 contains no reference to the 250,000 number at all: https://web.archive.org/web/20100707032103/http://www.childwise.net/downloads/Child_Wise_Tourism_Information_S.pdf
Given that the current citation is dead, reputable organizations no longer cite this number, and that at least one citation chain ended up in what I can only assume is a misinterpretation I think it would be best to remove the statement that "250,000 travelling internationally to engage in sex tourism with children and youth alone" entirely as unsubstantiated. Null Reject (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 250,000 number