Otherwise, slavery is concentrated in Southeast Asia, northern and western Africa, and parts of South America. Perhaps the most macabre story in Disposable People is its description of sex slavery in Thailand. Families in impoverished villages in the north sell their children to brothels in the prosperous central plains. They have done this traditionally because they were starving. Now there are new incentives.
Consumer goods are available, and a television can be bought for a child.
At age 15, the girl is constantly raped and beaten until her will is broken. She gets regular HIV tests and injections of contraceptive drugs. If she proves HIV-positive, she is thrown out of the brothel to starve. Slum dwellers are recruited in the cities with promise of steady work and good pay, then moved in cattle trucks hundreds of miles to charcoal camps. On arrival they are told they are already in debt for their transport and the food provided on the journey.