On guilt

I never experience a single moment of guilt or shame or anxiety over the prospect that the pictures that I make might inspire people to do things that would be evil.
--Earnest Green, Taboo magazine editor


"Everyone sells it. They are not Khmer children. They are Vietnamese."
--Cambodian vendor, explaining why she has no problem with selling child pornography videos, in Cambodia Daily


"There are some (prostitutes)who tell you what brought them here. One told me that she came by way of the Egyptian border and was promised work in a hotel, but a Bedouin sold her to someone in Tel Aviv and now she gets screwed for a hundred shekels a pop, and her life is under threat if she tries to run away. That's why she tells you everything at the end. If she told you at the start, it would make you depressed."
--Israeli john Hadi, quoted in Ha'aretz