A Perfect Lecture

BROWN BAG l “The only thing I could think to do to start this story was go to a brothel.” This is how freelance journalist Sebastian Junger, best known for his book The Perfect Storm, started a brown bag panel discussion on human trafficking in Southeastern Europe. Junger said he and a freelance photographer went undercover to the Apache, a “gentlemen’s club” draped in camouflage netting. “What I saw shocked me,” he said. At the time, Junger was writing a piece for the July 2002 issue of Vanity Fair called “Slaves of the Brothel” that traced the path of one young Moldavian woman forced into prostitution.