For situational users, there may be a lack of concern to check the age of a prostitute before engaging in sexual activity. There are two types of offenders: preferential abusers who specifically prefer children, because they seek to build a relationship with a child or because they perceive the risk of sexually transmitted infections to be lower and situational users, which are abusers who do not actively seek out children but for whom the actual act is opportunistic. Although pedophiles are popularly associated with child sex tourism, they are not the majority of users. Users of children for commercial and sexual purposes can be categorized by motive.
The children who perform as prostitutes in the child sex tourism trade often have been lured or abducted into sexual slavery. Child sex tourism victimizes approximately 2 million children around the world. Child sex tourism, part of the multibillion-dollar global sex tourism industry, is a form of child prostitution within the wider issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Child sex tourism results in both mental and physical consequences for the exploited children, which may include sexually transmitted infections (including HIV/AIDS), "drug addiction, pregnancy, malnutrition, social ostracism, and death", according to the State Department of the United States. The definition of child in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is "every human being below the age of 18 years".
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