Prostitution, neverending business

"After the crackdowns

"My parents put me into prostitution when I was 17," Li Zhou said. "As a girl, I was a burden to them. For my parents, the only valuable part of me was my body, so they used it to pay for my brother's education."

After attempting to leave her job in the sex trade twice, Zhou has twice had to return to using sex to make enough money to feed herself and send money back home to her family. Having received only one year of schooling, she has no formal education or work experience to allow her to succeed in anything except prostitution."

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By Katie McGowan