In Bangladesh

In Bangladesh

Brothels in Bangladesh

Sadly, the world can be a dark, dark place. There is a location in Bangladesh comprised of all sex workers. An average of 1600 women provide prostitution services to approximately 3000 men daily.
In a documentary video on YouTube, posted by The Guardian, some of the women tells their stories. Many of these Bangladeshi women remain as sex workers generationally perhaps because they feel like there is no way out and nothing else that they would be able to do. It is very tragic. It is not rare for there to be a grandmother, a mother and a daughter all working in the sex trade at this location in Bangladesh. One thirty year old woman tells her story of how she was kidnapped at eight years old, brought to this place and sold there. She had been offered just two chocolates by a woman who promised to give her good things to eat and was lured to follow the woman in the kidnapping. The people that bought her for around 400 pounds had her work off her “debt” in the sex trade and now she continues living and working there as an “independent sex worker”.
This short documentary video of just approximately 12 minutes highlights the tragic circumstances that these women and children are in.
The men who flock to the area to buy sex show no remorse for their actions with one man being interviewed saying that he does not feel bad about it. He does not see the sex workers as victims in all of this. Footage in the video shows that nine and ten year old children do have some awareness of what their mothers and perhaps grandmothers are doing and what they might be being “groomed” for as well. One young girl holds her little sister’s hand and walks swiftly to school with the fear that one or both of them might be kidnapped.
One nine year old little girl says of herself and her peers, “We just want to play” and shows the camera crew her favorite location, a field for playing. It is clear that many of the children are feeling stress and anxiety as they are unsure of their futures and unsure of whether they will be able to escape the type of work that has become tradition in their families, prostitution.
Sex outside of marriage is discouraged and considered taboo in much of the country of Bangladesh but in this particular area that has become known for prostitution, ‘business’ continues.

Relevant video clip(s):

(most relevant to the synopsis written above) The Guardian: The Children Trapped In Bangladesh's Brothel Village : https://youtu.be/AFSCdWaH9kg


From Al Jazeera English , Bangladesh's Biggest Brothel : https://youtu.be/AFSCdWaH9Kg