"In the interviews collected in the book, there is a little of everything: from young girls who fling themselves at the chance of being the traffickers' lovers to prostitutes who confess that sleeping with a young trafficker carrying an assault rifle makes them sexually excited. There are those who afirm that they do it because they want to seem touch, confronting the police like the men do: "We need to show that we are equal to men," says one of the young women interviewed, who insists that she doesn't take drugs to be more alert. And there are those who say they do it to guarantee their childrens' food.

"One of the most alarming things, and one that reflects the fascination that the traffickers exercise over women is that there exist middle class girls from comfortable neighborhoods in the city who end up moving to the favelas so that they can be closer to one of the traffickers, even though they know that they all end up dying young."

Book review for Falção, mulheres e o tráfico, about the role of women in drug trade of Brazil's favelas