Sex work in contemporary Vietnam: Foreign plague or homegrown problem?

Teenage Vietnamese girls in high heels and short skirts crowd around sunburned, sweating, middle-aged white men in a bar in central Saigon. It’s hot and dark outside; inside, the music is loud, the beer cold. Young women smile and giggle, teasing the men in broken English. They stand in the doorways of bars and hail the foreign tourists who pass by in the street.