The Evil (and the tears) Behind the Smiles

I experienced this firsthand when I met a Philippino prostitute in Manila and asked her about her family and why she was here. The veneer of sexiness was replaced by tears as she spoke of her parents and siblings. Any guy who thinks women want to be there doing what they're doing are fooling themselves, and rewarding the criminal pimps who run these ruinious rackets.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Western men who visit red-light districts in poor countries often find themselves surrounded by coquettish teenage girls laughingly tugging them toward the brothels. The men assume that the girls are there voluntarily, and in some cases they are right. But anyone inclined to take the girls’ smiles at face value should talk to Sina Vann, who was once one of those smiling girls. Sina is Vietnamese but was kidnapped at the age of 13 and taken to Cambodia, where she was drugged. She said she woke up naked and bloody on a bed with a white man — she doesn’t know his nationality — who had purchased her virginity.