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According to the latest research,
“With a middle-class background and an internet connection, the Australian man is keen to explore travel deals advertised across the web.
He is the customer in a growing global issue that sees over 1.8 million children as young as eight years old being sold for sex - sometimes up to ten times a day - until they're considered "worthless" before they reach their 30th birthday.
And new studies reveal this man has more mates than ever who think and act just like him.
Australians make up the largest portion of foreign sex offenders against children in Thailand, according to research at John Hopkins University in Baltimore that studied patterns of arrests and prosecutions between 1995 and 2006.
His money is fuelling a $US31.6 billion ($A36.5 billion) industry in trafficking in what a recent report by a global network of groups against child sex slavery concludes is a "massive human rights violation that is currently going largely unnoticed around the world".
"The number of children entering the trade has grown. Efforts to combat this problem have not succeeded despite pouring money into overseas governments."
A new global campaign called "Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People," will be launched on Monday to help reverse the trend and bring the issue back into the homes of the average Australian.
The "average Aussie"? Picture courtesy of Internet
Being run across 45 countries, the campaign aims to raise awareness, conduct a survey on people's attitudes and lobby national governments.
Bernadette McMenamin, CEO of Child Wise Australia, says most Australians view the price of petrol as a greater concern than the welfare of foreign children.”
