'If I find some special boyfriend and we both love each other, then I'll get intimate with him and have sex in my hut. 'The huts provide us independence and are the best way through which we can explore our true lover,' she told. Nang Chan, a 17-year-old girl who now lives full time in the love hut in the back garden of her parent's house, believes they offer her, and other girls like her, a sense of empowerment, though. Communities in rural Cambodia continue to live close-knit existences to this day