“Sex fiends in some of our Middle East embassies” is a headline-grabbing news item. It is a major story and a tragic one. In the first four months of the year, the remittances of overseas Filipinos jumped by more than five percent, defying a global trend of lethargic remittances from the traditional remittance powerhouses. As payback, some labor officials in the embassies had forcibly turned a number of runaway women OFWs into sex slaves.