black market
How Prison Inmates Get Porn
"It's crazy the prices we pay," one prisoner recently told me over the phone. "But then again, it's prison. Checking out a little porn is all a guy really has to look forward to."
Here's Why It's Hard to Get Laid in Venezuela Right Now
Condoms cost about €60 each, while the government is trying to teach women how to make their own pads, with fabric.
Red Gold: A Quixotic Quest to Find Beef in Cuba
In Cuba, I'm assured by locals, it is a greater crime to slaughter a cow than it is to slaughter a person. Why is beef so precious to this country's communist dictatorship?
Rich Kenyans Are Injecting Themselves with Black Market Creams to Become White
“You must only use a small amount, otherwise you can become albino.”
Holidays Are Better Than Reality
You can't buy tigers or reenact the lyrics of Katy Perry songs in real life.
Bud Diamonds
The first thing you notice about Sierra Leone is that everything swarms you: the heat, the beggars, the officials (who are basically beggars with titles), and the particulate filth that comes in a country where they dispose of their trash by burning it...
Playstation Pirates
Russia is one of the world's largest pirate markets for electronic media. From music and DVDs to video games and software, Russia is ranked right up with world-leaders in piracy China and Indonesia. Fake shit is sold everywhere here!
Black-market Kidney
It cost $7,000 to buy the actual kidney, $1,000 to fly round-trip to Cape Town, South Africa, where the operation could be done legally, and $1,200 to fly the Brazilian bricklayer whose kidney is now inside me to Cape Town from São Paulo.