Take that step, and that s all it is just a step. It s all right here in front of your eyes, whatever you want. And it s hard to feel shame there because there are no judges, only merchants. Buyers and sellers guided only by the logic of the market. Ethics are not evident.
Men negotiate sex with teenage girls and the madams are somebody s cute little grandma.
It s up to you because grandma doesn t care. If near-anarchy can be properly called freedom, then Cambodia is the freest country I know. The freedom is exhilerating, even if it means something as simple as drinking a beer and smoking a joint on the back of a weaving motorcycle. For many, that freedom proves too much to handle. The excesses of debauched foreigners,and of the Khmers themselves, are slowly coming to light in the form of backpacker gossip, bizzaro news reports, and seamy softcover travelogues, but a lot more goes on there than anyone will ever know.