Slavery has existed throughout history and exists today in various forms. Slavery is the captivity of one individual by another. Herbert Spencer proposed the idea of ​​survival of the fittest in human society. With slavery, especially nowadays, there are socially stronger people who take advantage of those who are weaker and more vulnerable. Today's societies see money as a form of power, and with this power it is used to trap the weak and use them as disposable objects. One form of slavery that exists today but goes unnoticed is human trafficking. Somaly Mam's autobiography, The Road of Lost Innocence, gave her readers an inside look into her world as a sex slave in Cambodia. Throughout his book, he describes the cruel and horrible things that slaves experience during their slavery. Sex slavery and violence are persistent in societies around the world, especially in Cambodian society, due to the lack of respect and morals and the disconnection between the people who are part of it. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in South Asia. Cambodia's poverty is causing many problems within the country; two of these problems are crime and slavery. The citizens of that society work hard and receive little or no pay. The damage the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodia left people scarred emotionally and physically. In the book Mam talks a lot about the effects the Khmer Rouge had on the people and her country. His words painted a picture for his readers showing the way people behaved towards each other because of the Khmer Rouge. For example, he states: «It was important not to see, not to hear, not to know anything about what was happening» (Mam 14). Mam... middle of paper... the Khmer Rouge." Time World, February 17, 2009 Date accessed: January 25, 2012 Mam, Somalia. The Road to Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine. Ruth Marshall, trans. New York: Spiegel&Grau, 2008.Pearl, Mariane. “Global Diary: Cambodia.” Glamor Magazine, 1 August 2006. Date accessed: 25 January 2012cambodia#ixzz1kXXN4LqD>Spencer, Channing. sex trafficking and labor exploitation". Perspective Magazine, Harvard's Liberal Monthly, March 30, 2010.< http://www.perspy.com/?p=571>Weinstein, David, "Herbert Spencer", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( summer 2009 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) Access date: January 25 2012.