The Sex Trade of Cambodian Children

A quick modern connection, which comes from Sheridan Blau, to works like A Modest Proposal asks simply whether in a post-Holocaust, post-Rwanda, world and so on--whether we can read works like Modest Proposal as satire any longer when they have such literal versions as a consequence of genocide. There was a show on ABC about Cambodia and the total moral vacuum there in the wake of the Killing Fields. They just have, from what they showed, no moral sensibility. People were selling children unapologetically and openly on the streets for any number of services, but most terribly, child slavery and prostitution.