Where child prostitution exists, for example in Thailand or India, there is absolute poverty and relative wealth directly side by side. Often soldiers were the cause for the development of this business. The relationship between child prostitution and sex tourists seems like a war. A continuation of war for the soldiers on another level.

The easy earned money is tempting. Many of the exploited children come from poor families, from the street or from the refugee camps of the country. Because child prostitution is a widly spread net, the venereal diseases - even Aids - are spreading fast. Therefore the fear of a customer of getting infected becomes bigger and bigger and because of that the demand for younger and younger children, too. The easy business of making money makes the prostitution to a kind of addiction. Even very young children are forced to follow this compulsion to maintain the circle of customers. If a circle of customers is being lost the family which depends on the money has to suffer from it.