In Klong Yai, Lin Lin worked in a restaurant and the men picked out which girl they wanted. She saw the owner and pimps slap the girls often, and she herself was slapped in the face and was warned to do whatever the clients wanted. She had to work everyday with the exception of two days a month when she had her period.

South Africa is on its way to developing a child-sex tourism trade. Children as young as eight can be bought in the Cape, for as little as food for their family, and little is being done to stop it. The sex industry in Cape Town is extremely organized, with children, both girls and boys, being taken away from their families and forced into prostitution or exploited by their parents to earn income for their families. The issue of Òsurvival sexÓ was recently reseached in the Western Cape. The research showed that children were being prostituted by their families or as a result of being left on the streets with no source of income. Children in rural areas are sent to shebeens (an unlicensed or illegally operated drinking establishment), labor hotels and to farm workers who pay in cash or with food. ÒResearch indicates that this is a common reality in poverty-stricken communities in this country. A case was reported to us of an eight-year-old boy prostituted by his family as their only source of income,Ó said Bernadette van Vuuren of the childrenÕs rights organization Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (RAPCAN).

South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection in the world. ÒSixteen in every hundred women visiting antenatal clinics in South Africa during 1997 were HIV positive.Ó (Baden, Hassin, Meintjes, p.20) More women than men are likely to be HIV positive; poverty increases the danger of HIV infection as women feel forced to become prostitutes to earn money.

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