sex tourism

noun

1. tourism with the intention of exploiting permissive or poorly enforced local laws concerning sex, esp sex with children

Example Sentences

Hollywood movies and TV shows tend to focus on the more decadent aspects of Thai culture — from the all-night Full Moon Party to sex tourism in Bangkok.

From Los Angeles Times

This reflects the repugnance of sex tourism in today’s Nagasaki, the latest form of white gaze.

From Los Angeles Times

Despite the rise in sex tourism, many visitors to Medellin are pulled in by its vibrant culture, the stunning natural beauty of the valley and the city’s complicated history.

From Seattle Times

Starkly transactional sex scenes, expunged of movie-star glamour and filmed with an irreducible mix of cruelty and pathos, are a Seidl signature, most obviously in “Paradise: Love,” his sun-scorched 2012 portrait of African sex tourism.

From Los Angeles Times

It also elides the fact that the travel industry has helped turn Costa Rica into an international hub of sex tourism, with such attendant side effects as human trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times