Cambodi Stealing The Innocence Of Children

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Stealing the innocence of children
Child abuse seems like something everyone should be against, and in a perfect world, this would not be an issue. We should all agree children need protection and it should be everyone’s responsibility to protect and defend children around the world. This week I watched a documentary called “Cambodia-The Virginity Trade”. It made me sick to realize how the people that are supposed to protect children are the same ones that create and condone the abuse. The film follows multiple children around Cambodia. In their stories, they reveal how their relatives or family friends sell their virginity, or trick them into losing their virginity to older man. It also interviews the “buyers," and their reasons to buy these child’s virginities. The way children, describe what they go …show more content…

When we think child prostitution, many of us think of slave children forced to perform sexual favors against their will. While this may be true to some of the children, the reality why children engage in prostitution is different for others. Virginity is perceived as a very valuable thing, and when a girls looses its virginity, can be perceived as shameful to the girl and her family (Watson, 2009 min 1:48). As such, desperate people may see virginity as a commodity, while others see virginity as a way to personal enhancements. Many man in Cambodia believe if they have sex with a virgin girl, it will make them look younger, provide good luck, and even “light skinned” (Watson, 2009 min 16:03). While this assertions are baseless, the ignorance of these men allows for an increase of a demand of virgin

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