This article discuses prostitution in the Philippines and how AIDS became an epidemic. Explains the role that poverty and tourism play in the sex industry. Prostitution as big business. How women are organizing themselves for support and access to health information.
Looks at the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media, and explores the cognitive and emotional consequences, consequences for mental and physical health, and impact on development of a healthy sexual self-image. Also has a section on what parents can do.
Provides a bibliography of the empirical literatures relating to child abuse, child sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Provides information on the causes, prevalence and effects of commercial sexual exploitation of children, as well as recommendations to deal with the problem.
Works to raise awareness to the plight of children exploited in the sex trade and support initiatives to have all forms of sexual acitivity with children regarded as child abuse.
Investigates the association between youth-reported depressive symptomatology and unwanted Internet sexual solicitation and identifies sex differences in related characteristics of affected youth.
Discusses aspects of nonconsensual sexual, which disproportionately affects youth, including potential health impacts, assistance to victims of sexual abuse, and prevention.
