The book continues catch my interest. I can not imagine how Somaly Mam felt first stop being sold to her aunt, and then having to work at the brothel's at night. She feels the need to fight back, yet it doesn't get her anymore. She even tries to run away, but eventually this lifestyle of hers seems to have her going around in circles. I can not imagine having to live a lifestyle where you would have to accept abuse as an everyday lifestyle because there is nothing else that can be done.
It was also interesting to read how broad the clientele in the brothels is. There were men with all different occupations, cops, taxi drivers, guards, men who had wives, even her aunt's husband raped the girls multiple times.
It was disturbing to read how the girls in the brothels were punished. Somaly Mam was burned with electrodes and she states that isn't half as bad as what girls in brothels go through. It was extremely disturbing to read that young children, girls that are the age of five or six are being sold because of the false assumption that having sex with a virgin will give a man power, strengthen him, give him a longer life span or even lighten his skin. The girls being sewn together after a week in order to "re-live" being a virgin is absolutely sickening.
It was surprising to read that she met foreigner's who did not treat her as bad as the men in Cambodia did.
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