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Professor Investigated for Sex Tourism Website � Student Activism

Professor Investigated for Sex Tourism Website � Student Activism

Professor Investigated for Sex Tourism Website

A professor at Cal State Northridge has been revealed as the editor of a website that caters to men who travel to Thailand as “sex tourists” seeking prostitutes.
Kenneth Ng, a tenured associate professor of Economics, is himself a frequent sex tourist. He defends his site as constitutionally protected speech, but a former Justice Department expert on sex trafficking and child abuse says that federal law prohibits “enticing or coercing” individuals to travel internationally in search of prostitutes.
Ng started the “Big Baby Kenny” site after he was banned from blogging at a Thai website for encouraging men to seek sex from the “emotionally vulnerable girls” who congregated at a particular Buddhist shrine. (In that same