被禁止的性行为与性暴力

成人与儿童的性接触: 儿童卖淫 4

前述的内容已经表达得很清楚，儿童卖淫的根源是贫困。这个根源曾经符合有着雏妓的维多利亚时代的英格兰，那么，对今天的许多发展中国家也适用。恰恰是贫困迫使一些女孩和男孩作为“性工作者”来供养着他们的双亲及其同胞兄弟姐妹。另有一些贫困女孩和男孩甚至在更加令人绝望的境地讨生活：他们作为被遗弃的“盲流孩童(street children)”，靠乞讨、偷窃和卖淫苟延残喘。

所以，我们应该清楚地弄明白，尽管由终止儿童卖淫的国家和国际机构做出的努力是值得赞扬的，但是，这些机构所做的努力唯有延伸到投入相当的资源和精力消除贫困才能取得成功。组织研讨会议、扩展包括青春期在内的关于“儿童”的定义、颁布更严厉的刑罚法律、逮捕和惩罚买性的消费者、关闭妓院等等，仅仅能够治理这种基本社会病态的非常严重的综合征。如果所有这些善意的努力没有针对导致贫困的政治和经济的原因，那都是无的放矢。只要儿童的贫困仍旧存在，只要他们依旧被迫去卖淫，即便是这种蔚为壮观的“清洗式的战役”[1]也将无济于事。

抗击性剥削和贫困
2001年，这个由联合国儿童基金会支持的、在日本横滨召开的大会，曾经明确提出了更为严厉的法律和法律措施要求，但是，就消除贫困方面，这次大会仍旧满足于一般性的要求：“我们欢迎下列的进展——更加强调儿童的权利……，针对儿童的更好的教育途径，为面对贫困家庭及其儿童的社会支持措施。”
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Fighting sexual exploitation and poverty
This UNICEF-supported congress of 2001 in Yokohama, Japan, was specific in many of its demands for stricter laws and law enforcement, but with regard to poverty it remained content with generalities: “We welcome the following developments - the greater emphasis on the rights of the child---, - better educational access for children, social support measures for families and children to counter poverty”.
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[1]. 中国大陆的类似行动叫“扫黄打非”——突击性质的打击涉及淫秽的各种印刷品、网站、“卖淫嫖娼”等，叫“扫黄”；“打非”：打击非法出版物。——译者注。

Prohibited Sexual Behavior and Sexual Violence

Adult Sexual Contact with Children: Child Prostitution 4

As the preceding sections have made clear, at the root of child prostitution lies poverty. This was true of Victorian England with its child prostitutes, and it is still true today in many developing countries. It is poverty that forces some girls and boys to support their parents and siblings as “sex workers”. Others find themselves in even more desparate circumstances: As abandoned “street children”, they depend on begging, stealing, and prostitution for their very survival.
It should therefore be well understood that the commendable efforts by national and international organizations to end child prostitution can succeed only to the extent that they contribute to eliminating poverty. Organizing congresses, stretching the definition of “childhood” to include adolescence, enacting stricter criminal laws, arresting and punishing customers, closing brothels etc. can do nothing more than treat the symptoms of a much more serious underlying condition. All of these well-meaning efforts miss their real target if they do not address the political and economic causes of poverty. Even the grandest “cleaning-up campaign” will not help the children as long their poverty persists and keeps forcing them into prostitution.