A Cambodian vlogger, Catherine Harry, makes the news with her outspoken views on a woman's place.

Cambodia's YouTube provocateur: 'Is a woman's value measured by virginity?'
From menstruation to masturbation, no topic is off limits for a candid online activist who has established a big following in culturally conservative Cambodia

- A presenter is standing in front of a white sheet with splashes of pink, signifying blood. The woman, Catherine V Harry, turns to camera and, after a standard Khmer greeting, gets straight to the point.

“Is the value of women determined by virginity?” she asks. It is this directness, in a country laced with taboos and tradition, that has garnered the 22-year-old more than 1 million views on her Facebook video channel, A Dose of Cath.

“We have been conditioned to think that our value is based on our hymen and the kind of guy that will marry us,” said Catherine later, in a cafe in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Her objective is to educate fellow Cambodians about feminism, sexual and reproductive health, and other topics not openly discussed in the south-east Asian country. She believes the culture of silence surrounding these issues disempowers women.
“I want to open a discussion about those things – it’s time to start talking about topics that we are not supposed to talk about because all of them suppress women,” she says...
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