Livelihood ...
Special Report:
Fallout of the Philippine
sex trade
In June of 1998, the Star sent a reporter and a photographer to the Philippines to investigate the connection between a Ventura tour company and the sex trade in that impoverished country. Their report was published in the Star on July 12, 1998. This is an online rendering of that report.
Written by M.E. Sprengelmeyer,
staff writer
Staff photos by Juan Carlo
Livelihood of last resort 
In Subic, a 15-year-old prostitute they call "Baby Love" is working
alongside grown women in the bars, selling her slender body to foreign
sex tourists to survive.
Clinic addresses high disease
risk for prostitutes 
It's Wednesday morning at the Angeles City Social Hygiene Clinic, time
for the regular weekly health checkups for some of the city's registered
prostitutes.
American servicemen abandoned children 
The faces of Amerasian children fill the streets in this former Navy
town. Many are offspring of bar girls like Pedraya from the area's leading
industry: sex.
Money can buy him love
Andy
Sikes paid a Texas company $1,500 to introduce him to single Filipinas
by mail. He fell in love at first sight when 26-year-old Arlene Moreno
sent him a picture from her family's home in a depressed area of Manila.
Web production by James Berg