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- June 21, 1993: From The Publisher
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 21, 1993 Sex for Sale
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> We at TIME have always taken pride in our tradition of group
- journalism. By pooling the talents of correspondents based on
- six continents, we are able to bring to our stories a scope
- and perspective that few other newsgathering organizations can
- match. One particularly satisfying example of the technique
- is this week's special report about a global sex trade so broad
- in its reach that few corners of the earth remain untouched
- by its depredations.
- </p>
- <p> Relying on reports from 26 locations round the globe, our story
- tracks this new slave trade from Nepal's Himalayan villages
- to the mining towns of the Amazon and on to West European strip
- clubs. "This story demonstrates our global reach and knowledge,"
- says senior editor Christopher Redman, who coordinated the report
- from his office in Brussels. "We got up close to a difficult
- subject most people don't want to talk about."
- </p>
- <p> Readers often ask where we get our ideas. In this instance,
- it began with a report of a Belgium-based slave-trade ring and
- with news out of Eastern Europe that young women were bartering
- themselves as brides in exchange for a life in the more affluent
- West. While some of these marriages produced happy endings,
- contributor Frederick Painton was struck by the fact that the
- majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of
- economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon.
- At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across
- moving photos of child prostitutes in Russia taken by Alexei
- Ostrovskiy.
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- <p> It was then up to Paris correspondent Margot Hornblower to weave
- the reports into a single story. Associate editor Michael Serrill
- wrote an accompanying piece on the corruption of children. Both
- stories were informed by the personal insights of our reporters
- as they moved through this grimy underworld. "At a strip club,
- I tried to convince a Flemish anesthesiologist that I didn't
- work there," recalls the Brussels bureau's Susanna Schrobsdorff.
- "Thinking he was being snubbed by a prostitute, he screamed
- a barrage of insults, smashed his glass, then stomped out."
- It was that kind of story, sad to say, all around the world.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
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- </article>
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