Editing Sexual slavery (section)

====Child prostitution====
{{Main|Child prostitution}}
Child prostitution, or child sex trafficking, is a form of sexual slavery.<ref name="Flowers">{{cite book|first=R. Barri|last=Flowers|title=Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=978-0313384615|year=2011|page=34|access-date=28 October 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbxvF88mUxMC&pg=PA34}}</ref> It is the [[commercial sexual exploitation of children]], in which a child performs the services of prostitution, usually for the financial benefit of an adult.

Child prostitution usually manifests in the form of [[sex trafficking]], in which a child is [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] or tricked into becoming involved in the sex trade, or [[survival sex]], in which the child engages in sexual activities to procure basic essentials such as food and shelter. Prostitution of children is commonly associated with [[child pornography]], and they often overlap. Some people travel to foreign countries to engage in [[child sex tourism]]. Research suggests that there may be as many as 10 million children involved in prostitution worldwide.<ref name="Willis">{{cite journal |last1=Willis |first1=Brian M. |last2=Levy |first2=Barry S. |date=April 20, 2002 |title=Child prostitution: global health burden, research needs, and interventions |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1259781 |journal=Lancet |volume=359 |issue=9315 |pages=1417–22 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08355-1 |pmid=11978356 |s2cid=10141488}}</ref> The practice is most widespread in [[South America]] and [[Asia]], but prostitution of children exists globally,{{sfn|Lim|1998|p=171}} in undeveloped countries as well as developed.{{sfn|Jaffe|Rosen|1997|p=10}} Most of the children involved with prostitution are girls, despite an increase in the number of young boys in the trade.

India's federal police said in 2009 that they believed around 1.2 million children in India to be involved in prostitution.<ref name="cnn.com">
{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/11/india.prostitution.children/index.html | publisher=CNN | access-date=6 April 2010 | title=Official: More than 1M child prostitutes in India | date=11 May 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329064348/http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/11/india.prostitution.children/index.html | archive-date=29 March 2010 | url-status=live}}
</ref> A CBI statement said that studies and surveys sponsored by the [[Ministry of Women and Child Development]] estimated about 40% of India's prostitutes to be children.<ref name="cnn.com"/>

Thailand's Health System Research Institute reported that children in prostitution make up 40% of prostitutes in Thailand.<ref name="unicri.it">{{cite web|url=http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/minors/docs/dr_thailand.pdf |title=Trafficking in Minors for Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Thailand |access-date=2012-06-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051222065631/http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/minors/docs/dr_thailand.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2005 }}</ref>

In some parts of the world, child prostitution is tolerated or ignored by the authorities. Reflecting an attitude which prevails in many developing countries, a judge from [[Honduras]] said, on condition of anonymity: "If the victim [the child prostitute] is older than 12, if he or she refuses to file a complaint and if the parents clearly profit from their child's commerce, we tend to look the other way".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html |title=Child prostitution: the ugliest part of tourism |publisher=Thepanamanews.com |access-date=8 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625130547/http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html |archive-date=25 June 2012}}</ref>

All member countries of the [[United Nations]] have committed to prohibiting child prostitution, either under the [[Convention on the Rights of the Child]] or the [[Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography]]. Various campaigns and organizations have been created to try to stop the practice.