Cambodia (Spoilers)
The self indulged movie maker from an elevated American background reduces prostitution in Cambodia to being an expression of strong cultural biases about virginity. What she forgets to mention, is the fact that prostitution in Cambodia was strongly fueled by UN peace keeping forces, as can be found at http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/un-peacekeepers-and-cultures-violence
One direct outcome of the influx of military personnel under the UN flag in Cambodia was a rapid increase in prostitution and an alarming growth in the sex industry. One estimate suggests that in Phnom Penh alone the number of prostitutes increased from 6,000 in 1991 to 20,000 by 1992 with similar increases observed in provincial towns. Child prostitution was particuarly popular because of the better chance that younger prostitutes would not yet have contracted the HIV virus. Child "virgins" were sold to UN peacekeepers for as much as £500 after which these children were "worth" considerably less, getting paid on average £10 per soldier.
Similar developments can be witnessed in any other East Asian country where Western forces (mainly American) were or still are deployed, btw.
Now, did Jennifer Fox not know about this? And if so, how well researched is this movie at all? And if she knew, why make no mention of it? Possibly, because it would at least have jeopardized her attempt at making her own problems into a explanatory and almost essential matrix for all issues between men and women in this world, irrespective of historical or political background, or more precisely: western involvement. I guess, that's the prerogative of the sort of woman who can quite easily spend $13,000 on IVF.
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