As I was trying to come up with my Christmas wish list, as my mom has been asking if I want any books, I was browsing on Amazon for books that might be interesting to me. I searched for books on Mozambique, missions and, of course, street kids in Brazil. As part of my ongoing research, which I dove into in college and have kind of slacked off on, I search for new titles about people rescuing kids off the streets and out of prostitution in Brazil and around the world. As I was searching today, in amongst the books about rescuing kids out of prostitution, there was one written by a sex tourist.

Sickening.

I know I’ve found sickening websites for sex tourist detailing the bars and locales you can find child prostitutes at, but that was years ago. Hadn’t found anything like that since college, when I was diving headfirst into research for projects about child prostitution.

It caught me off guard that there would be someone so sick in the head as to write an entire book detailing about his life as a sex tourist around the world, with much of his travels being in, of course, Brazil.

I feel like writing a complaint to Amazon about it, but I don’t know how. When there are so many people working to stop such an ugly thing as child prostitution and sex tourism, how can there be people who write about it, glorifying it?

Makes me sick.

Next post will be more upbeat, i promise.