James Marson writes: When Tonya came to Kyiv (Kiev) from her small hometown in western Ukraine to study, it was a route out of the dreary provincial life she had grown to hate. She struggled to make ends meet. Her parents, with a combined monthly income of around $200, were hardly in a position to help fund her studies.Tonya feared she would have to give up and return home. But then she found a way to stay: selling her body to foreign men.
Ukraine’s other crisis: Weak currency, cheap flights spur ‘sex tourism’