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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna assume those women are at least sleeping with adults, which cannot be said for...

Boy do I got some news for you...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Uh, is there some rampant Italian pedophile tourism I've never heard of? Because people keep implying it but I'd love more info without having to sift through what would undoubtedly be about a billion articles about the Catholic church.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Women constitute 10% of pederast tourists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Am I taking crazy pills right now? I'm literally asking for some kind of evidence and no one will provide it. I have tried finding it and everything that comes back is about women who are victims of sex tourism, not perpetrators. I'm not asking for evidence because I don't believe it, I'm asking because I can't find any.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

While the vast majority of offenders are male, evidence gathered for the Global Study confirms that women account for a small proportion of SECTT offenders. Some female perpetrators label their crime as a search for ‘romance’, but as the Europe report points out the end result is the same, with the richer traveller or tourist exploiting the poorer, local child. Generally speaking, women appear to target mostly men aged over 18 years. However, cases of underage boys having sex with European female offenders, often for some form of remuneration, have been identified in different regions and countries. For example, a study on prostitution of children and its links to tourism in Venezuela found that foreign women travel to the country looking for ‘love’ with teenage boys and young men.

Reading through the second source pretty much backs up my initial statement that women going to Italy to hook up are nearly all looking for adults. The only breakdown of offender gender I could find said 93.3% men, 3ish% women, and the remainder unidentified. It also says Eastern Europe is much more likely to be a destination of choice for predators.

The second source, which admittedly had to be run through Google translate, is about Italians traveling abroad for sex tourism, not people going to Italy. There's no source listed for the claim that 10% of sex tourists are women that I could see. They do reference the org that created the second source, but I didn't see 10% anywhere.

I'm not dismissing sex tourism as a problem or saying women who contribute aren't monsters, but the evidence (and your sources) say men make up the vast majority of traveling predators and are far more likely to be seeking out children when they're going to known hot spots for that kind of thing than women going to western Europe.