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There was no evidence of widespread fraud. Prince William reportedly didn't think it'd be a "good idea. After she'd paid her sick husband's medical bills, given cash to her ageing parents and bought Chamnan a gold necklace to "raise her spirits", there wasn't much left.
Uy had greatly underestimated the task of clawing her way out of hardship; her stricken expression as she talks suggests she also miscalculated the personal costs of selling her daughter's body to try. Where to begin unravelling the shadowy, painful layers of Uy and Chamnan's story? It is not straightforward. Often overlooked by more dramatic tales of enslavement in brothels, the trade in virgins is one of the most endemic forms of sexual exploitation in Cambodia.
It is a market sustained by severe poverty and ingrained gender inequality. Its clients are influential Cambodian men and other members of Asia's elite who enjoy total impunity from a corrupt justice system. Most misunderstood of all, many of those involved in the transactions are not hardcore criminals. They are mothers, fathers, friends and neighbours. Cambodia is far FROM the only place where women and girls are treated as commodities. But in this country of 15 million people, the demand for virgins is big business that thrives due to cultural myth and other local factors.
The belief that sex with virgins increases male vigour has long held sway among powerful men in Asia, including Chairman Mao and North Korea's Kim dynasty. Parents who sell their daughters' virginity have little concept of child rights.
Based on Licadho's work inside communities, Pung estimates that "many thousands" of virgins aged between 13 and 18 are sold every year. As well as rich Cambodians, men from countries such as China, Singapore and Thailand are regular buyers, too.
The lack of hard figures is partly due to the trade's secrecy, Meldrum adds. Brokers operate underground, changing tactics and locations often. Plus the fact that close relatives are often involved means it rarely fits into strict definitions of sex trafficking — when people are tricked or abducted and sold into open-ended slavery — so it doesn't show up in those statistics either.
But there's another reason the trade is virtually invisible. Says Licadho's Pung: "In terms of activism, few organisations highlight virgin buying even though it's a devastating abuse of young women. Licadho is one of the exceptions. That moral complexities are sometimes ignored by those purporting to help was sensationally underscored in late May.
Somaly Mam , a self-styled former sex slave and Cambodia's most famous anti-trafficking campaigner, was forced to resign in disgrace from the US-based foundation that bears her name. She was feted widely in the media. On the back of heartbreaking stories about herself and Cambodian women under her wing, she raised millions of dollars at glitzy New York galas.
Her downfall came after an investigation by a Cambodia Daily reporter revealed that significant parts of the stories she told were untrue. One young woman whom Mam claimed to have rescued from a brothel after a vicious pimp gouged out her right eye had actually lost the eye, it emerged, as the result of a facial tumour.
Mam's own story of woe — that she was orphaned and sold to a brothel at the age of 12 — was also dismantled. The awful irony of Mam's rapid fall is that she didn't need to lie. Sex trafficking and exploitation exist in Cambodia, just often in less made-for-TV ways than her tragic tales suggested.
Brothels in red-light areas housing enslaved child prostitutes, for example, have been almost wiped out over the past decade.
Dishonesty aside, the greatest pitfall of her fraudulence was not so much that it misrepresented the scale of the problem. It was that it misrepresented the solutions. But I wanted to be polite, I didn't wanna offend him. So I was just going with the strategy of distracting him. So I was like, What kind of books do you like? And he was like, I don't really read, and kept pulling at my skirt, trying to get it off.
And I was like, Okay, but if you had to pick just one book that you've read that you really liked. And he was like, Okay, who's the guy who wrote Jurassic Park? I like him. And so I, a young scholar and certified academic asshole, was aghast. I was like, Michael Crichton?!
He was like, Yeah, whatever, and he kept kissing my neck and just littering my body with all these horrible teenage-y hickeys, and I hated it. And so I just went with the first thing that popped in my head, I'm on my period, which was a lie.
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