In recent years Terre des Hommes Netherlands observed the steady rise of a new form of <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> sexual exploitation. One that is enabled and fuelled by rapid technological advances, increasing global connectivity, persisting poverty rates, and growing disparity in the global distribution of resources. Terre des Hommes Netherlands received alarming signals from collaborating project partners from the Philippines that new commercial <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> exploitation trades are evolving and spreading parallel to rising global Internet access rates and developments in communications technology.
<span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">Webcam</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">sex</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">tourism</span> is evidently growing, closely related to <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> prostitution, <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> trafficking and <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> abuse. What is not clear however, are the psychological and social consequences of this new phenomenon. To date, no research has been done on the psychosocial consequences of <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">webcam</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">sex</span> for children. The aim of this research is therefore to gain more knowledge on the psychosocial consequences of <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">webcam</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">child</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">sex</span> <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">tourism</span> for children and to give insight into the antecedent factors that play a role.