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It's Not Just Justin Bieber: Travel Websites Are Fueling Sex Tourism in Latin America
Expect to see more attention paid to the conditions of prostitutes as Brazil counts down to the World Cup.
A couple of weeks ago, Justin Bieber became the latest celebrity to get caught slinking out of a brothel in Rio de Janeiro. He joins a Latin American sex tourism fraternity that just last year included members of the U.S. Secret Service.
Tourists frequenting prostitutes is not exactly a new trend. But sex tourism in the region is predictably gaining attention as Brazil counts down to next year’s World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. During the last two World Cups, prostitution generated its own influx of people, with an estimated 40,000 women traveling to Germany in search of sex work in 2006, and the same number to South Africa in 2010.