In beginning my research, I've looked through both BBC and The New York Time's website. I've found numerous snippits of information, mostly relating to my research question of what can be done to end child prositution?
I've flipped through the customers of these brothels, Cambodia's government turning a blind eye to the 20 some odd brothels, harboring 10 to 30 woman apiece.
Most woman are forced into this profession by either poverty or enslavement by kidnapping. They are beat or confined to the house to ensure their stay. The Cambodian government took no action in the infamous Svay Pak shantytown until the Association of South-East Nations tourism conference was within the near future. The woman are worth hundereds of dollars for their virginity, as many men with the AIDS virus believe that fornication with these girls will cure them. Afterwards, however, they are sold for as low as $3 afterwards. To speak more of the corrupt Cambodian government, although prostitution is illegal, brothels are allowed to function and are even re-opened days after being 'shut down' by the police. Svay Pak is infamous enough where westerners are coming into the down just for sex, as an Italian man was fined for sex with boys ages 10 to 14.
This is disgraceful to think of the human race partaking in such acts, but more research is in order for me to continue.
Works Cited:
Cambodia shuts down red-light district. Thursday, 23 Janurary, 2003.BBC. Friday, 10 October 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2686963.stm>
Girls for Sale. Janurary 17, 2004. New York Times. Nicholas D. Kristof on New York Times. October 7, 2008
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9d0deedf1639f934a25752c0a9629c8b63">
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