Recorded from YLE Radio Finland - 2000.02.02-2000z

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" ... concern about sex tourism from Finland to nearby regions of Russia. Two Finnish ministers -- social services minister [name...] and interior minister [name...] recently visited the Russian city of [Viborg], to meet with their [..] counterparts and to study the extent of sex tourism in the city.

[ moral discussion of female prostitution... ]

... Sex tourism as such causes enough problems, but a far more serious sort of trade is also involved -- child prostitution; in other words, pedophilia. Homeless children in the city of Viborg that many Finnish volunteers and societies help, and told of Finnish men on sex trips and money they have received from them. [minister's name] concludes: if a sufficient number of Finnish men were caught and put on trial the word would quickly spread and scare sex tourists away from Viborg. As interior minister [name...] said: "This is something we need to be ashamed about."