“The pay was so high, I couldn’t bear to leave”: Geylang brothel owner’s struggle to walk away from her old life

Auntie May* looks like a well-groomed grandmother. She is well coiffed and age has done little to erase the fact that she must have been a beauty in her day.   Nothing about her suggests that she had spent some 20 years as a brothel owner in Geylang, Singapore’s red-light district. That was not the … Continue reading “The pay was so high, I couldn’t bear to leave”: Geylang brothel owner’s struggle to walk away from her old life