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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents and its invisible faces: cases in communities in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro

Vanessa Fonseca, Promundo

The objective of this brief article is to promote reflection on situations of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents - ESCCA, which are often invisible due to gender norms that contribute to the acceptance of male dominance over women, reinforced by encouraging a difference age range between genders in relationships, and by moral standards that, when considering marriage as a way of promoting dignity in relationships, ignore the possibilities of violations of adolescents' sexual rights in this type of relationship.

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