“show me a map of the world with the top destinations for sex tourism”
Nineteen cities and resort areas across 14 countries, shortlisted from a live-web scan on 2026-08-31: 8 searches, 1,310 unique candidate pages, 2,778 extracted place mentions. Destinations are ranked by the number of distinct source domains mentioning them (page mentions break ties) — a measure of web visibility, not visitor volume.
Safety and ethics. This map describes what the open web says; it is research, not a guide or an endorsement. Only consensual activity between adults is lawful anywhere it is lawful at all: child sexual exploitation, trafficking, coercion, and exploitation are serious crimes and abuses everywhere. Laws on buying and selling sex, solicitation, brothels, public conduct, pornography, and travel offenses differ sharply by jurisdiction and change over time. Amsterdam's regulated adult-entertainment sector is a distinct legal context — no assumption of legality carries to any other place on this page. No venue-level directions, prices, or procurement advice are given.
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Evidence-visibility ranking, not official tourism statistics — no authoritative global city-level dataset exists for this underground and inconsistently defined activity. Data: 19 rows, one per destination, from a live-web scan on 2026-08-31 (8 searches → 1,310 unique pages → 2,778 semantic place mentions). "Domains" counts distinct source domains mentioning a destination; "pages" counts individual pages; ties share a rank. Web visibility can reflect media coverage, historical reputation, advocacy, or enforcement attention rather than current activity. Countries and broad regions were excluded; only specific cities, resorts, or compact areas are shown. Characterization text was available for one row and shown in its tooltip.