December 17, 2006
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia
One of the oldest social dichotomies is the one dividing good girls from bad, the madonna from the whore. But in poor countries where sex trafficking and globalization have fostered new forms of slavery, it is the saintly ones — those who risk leaving their villages to help their families — who often end up as whores.
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