Defining Sex Tourism: International Advocacy, German Law, and Gay Activism at the End of the Twentieth Century.

The revised Paragraph 176 came into force in August 1993, and the revised Paragraph 182 replaced Paragraph 175 and Paragraph 149 the following year. The group argued that "this form of sexual abuse is to be seen also in relation to other forms of sexual exploitation, especially trafficking in children and women as well as sex tourism to countries in the Third World."[63] When the proposals were brought to the Bundestag for debate that October, Alliance '90 / Green Party representative and women's speaker Christian Schenk argued that expanding criminal provisions against child pornography and sex tourism was necessary because "60 percent of all German tourists in Thailand are sex tourists. The ruling Christian Democrats and Free Democrats had established in their 1990 coalition agreement that they would abolish Paragraph 175 while leaving the East German Paragraph 149 in force for the former East German states in the interim, but they made no promises about changes to Paragraph 176. While many women representatives in the Bundestag sought to prevent abuse of women and girls at home and abroad, gay activists and Bundestag representatives in favor of the abolition of Paragraph 175 sought both to prevent exploitation and to end discrimination against gays and lesbians in German law. [Extracted from the article]