Investigating International Sex Tourism*
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.01.05 | 1:45 PM ET
National Magazine Award-winner Sean Flynn begins a three-part investigative series on sex tourism in the August issue of GQ magazine. In part one, Flynn travels to the Philippines, where he talks to some of the young women—girls, really—involved in the sex trade, as well as the men who fly in from around the world to be with them.
Sex tourism in the Philippines, according to Flynn, is a $2 billion industry. “If viewed from above, from high in the stratosphere with the whole blue earth rolling and spinning below,” Flynn writes, “the currents of the sex trade would be as obvious as the clouds, swirls of people moving from country to country, continent to continent.” Part one of the series is not available online. It’s now online.
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof also ran a series of stories about the international sex trade in early 2004. He bought the freedom of two Cambodian slave-prostitutes but, unfortunately, his stories are no longer online for free. Our items about Kristof’s series can be read here, here and here. And Reason magazine has an archived discussion of Kristof’s pieces and the ongoing problem of slave-prostitution in Southeast Asia. * Update: Parts one, two and three of Flynn’s series are now available online.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
