For a few extra marks, clients can usually negotiate unprotected penetrative sex from young prostitutes they mistakenly assume are unlikely to be carriers of sexually-transmitted diseases.
German authorities say their hands are tied by Czech apathy to the problem. A law giving German police the power to prosecute men who have sex with minors, even abroad, should be a help in the fight. The law can imprison men found guilty for up to 10 years, but the law is next to unenforceable.
Still, there have been some prosecutions, such as a year-old man from Dresden found guilty of 19 cases of sexual assault of children in the Czech Republic, as well as the production and distribution of pornographic materials.
The judgment describes how the man forced two Czech girls, aged nine and 10, to perform gymnastic exercises, naked, while he took photographs. In the presence of the children's mother, he had penetrative sex with them on several occasions over a period of 12 months.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison in June, In Cheb, the Karo team observe the prostitutes as they work, noting licence-plate numbers and passing details to the German police. The men just say they were asking for directions," says Josef Heisl, a police superintendent in the Bavarian city of Regensburg who investigates sex tourism.
For a successful prosecution, authorities must catch men in the act of having sex with minors, which is next to impossible, or get victim statements that implicate the client and those who forced them into prostitution, which almost never happens. Since the high-profile launch, however, Karo workers say little has happened from the German side.
As a show of support, Schily sent a deputy to the German border crossing Schoenberg last year. She declined to cross the border into the Czech Republic and, within the hour, she was in the helicopter on her way back to Berlin. You're forced to think of Freud. A decade ago, the people of Cheb hoped to attract wealthy German tourists over their newly opened borders. Today, the Czech Republic is held up as a model candidate for EU membership, ripe to attract foreign investment.
But Cheb has managed to attract only German shoppers by day and German sex tourists by night, as well as the occasional journalist. As the Czech Republic looks to its future in the EU, thousands of its youngest citizens have no futures, peering through another car window at their next customer on the streets of towns like Cheb, or as Germans call it, the Bangkok of the West.
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Such financial reward is often hard to resist. Demand for child prostitutes comes from a range of sources. In Asia, child prostitution, and prostitution in general, is deeply embedded in many local and national cultures.
While nationals frequent and effectively support the prostitution industry, many foreign travelers also visit countries in search of sex.
The promotion of tourism is linked with prostitution. Girl prostitutes are primarily located in low-middle income areas and business districts and are known by officials. Brothel keepers regularly recruit young girls. In Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi, and Hyderabad, there are an estimated 10, girl prostitutes. Girl prostitutes are grouped as common prostitutes, singers and dancers, call girls, religious prostitutes or devdasi, and caged brothel prostitutes.
Religious prostitutes are mainly found in the South.
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