Emancipation Tourism?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.20.04 | 10:58 PM ET
Some of the most interesting newspaper travel stories never appear in the travel section. Nicholas D. Kristof’s column about his visit to the outlaw town of Poipet, Cambodia, which appeared in the op-ed pages of Saturday’s New York Times, is a perfect example. Poipet “has a reputation as one of the wildest places in Cambodia,” Kristof writes. He went there to investigate the slave-trade prostitution business, and while there, he met two prostitutes, including one who told him it would cost $70 to buy her freedom. Kristof asked if she really wanted to leave the brothel. “I do not want to let my life be destroyed by what I’m doing now,” she told him. Kristof writes: “That’s when I made a firm decision I’d been toying with for some time: I would try to buy freedom for these two girls and return them to their families.” He promises the conclusion of the story in his column Wednesday.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
