I couldn't find any redeeming value to this low budget independent film. It was uniformly boring, creepy, and sad, featuring a prostitution ring of high school girls, organized by one enterprising girl, who functioned as sort of a madam. The sex scenes weren't even titillating, merely perfunctory.
However, I would like to take this opportunity to review some generalizations about child prostitution. It's estimated that, in the US alone, there are hundreds of thousands of juvenile prostitutes : both girls and boys. Many are being exploited by unscrupulous pimps, in what amounts to sexual slavery. Some of these youths have been illegally imported for this purpose. However, as this film dramatizes, other youth are the one's doing the exploiting, financially, keeping most or all of their earnings, without need to support an exploitive pimp. In Thailand, Brazil, and in the Czech Republic, where prostitution is legal at 15, many poor youths, operating out of their homes, voluntarily sell their bodies to buy things or help finance their families. Often, they target foreign tourists.
In the US, it's estimated that 75-80% of adult prostitutes began their activity as juveniles, 70% beginning before age 16. It's estimated that 95% of prostitutes who began as juveniles were runaways. And why do they run away? It's estimated that 90% of juvenile prostitutes previously suffered sexual abuse. Of course, there are also other reasons for running away from home. Foster children, families including a stepparent, African American and Latino children, and children of migrants and refugees are especially at risk. How ironic. They runaway because of sexual abuse, then most spend most of their time having sex with strangers for money!
However, I would like to take this opportunity to review some generalizations about child prostitution. It's estimated that, in the US alone, there are hundreds of thousands of juvenile prostitutes : both girls and boys. Many are being exploited by unscrupulous pimps, in what amounts to sexual slavery. Some of these youths have been illegally imported for this purpose. However, as this film dramatizes, other youth are the one's doing the exploiting, financially, keeping most or all of their earnings, without need to support an exploitive pimp. In Thailand, Brazil, and in the Czech Republic, where prostitution is legal at 15, many poor youths, operating out of their homes, voluntarily sell their bodies to buy things or help finance their families. Often, they target foreign tourists.
In the US, it's estimated that 75-80% of adult prostitutes began their activity as juveniles, 70% beginning before age 16. It's estimated that 95% of prostitutes who began as juveniles were runaways. And why do they run away? It's estimated that 90% of juvenile prostitutes previously suffered sexual abuse. Of course, there are also other reasons for running away from home. Foster children, families including a stepparent, African American and Latino children, and children of migrants and refugees are especially at risk. How ironic. They runaway because of sexual abuse, then most spend most of their time having sex with strangers for money!