Not Ready For Economy

In "The Road to Lost Innocence" Somaly talks about how in the forrest where she lived before she was sold into slavery, they had no money. They only had goods that they shared. She says when someone needed cabbage and didn't have any, that they would go to their neighbors and simply ask for it. She makes it seem like the forrest did not have any money or corruption, yet she was sold from that same forrest. Also, she does say that the adults would make trips into the city. We had talked in other classes about how some countries that are used to being in a state of war, aren't ready for democracy when it is first introduced to them, or maybe just unsure how to use it. While reading "Road to Lost Innocence" it almost seemed like the small villages and forrest villages were not ready for capitalism or having an economy in general. Maybe that is why they went so quickly to such awful things like selling people because their currency isn't what it should be and they don't know how to use money effectively.

http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/cambodia

This site has interesting facts about prostitution in Cambodia but also, specifically for my topic, the "Causes" section is interesting because it says some of the main reasons are an imbalance between urban and rural economies, also poverty and socio-economic factors play a huge roll in the growing problem of prostitution.