My skin is ruined and my figure is not like before. I am suffering a lot for this. The size of a small town, the brothel has everything customers and sex workers need. And they couldn't leave even if they wanted to. Known as dalals, the brokers bring the girls into the brothels and sell them to madams. Sex, Slavery, and Drugs in Bangladesh. Watch video here. And that is what keeps the business booming. Dalals go into nearby towns and cities on a daily basis to find young girls aged 13 to 14 years old.
We talk to the girls for a while. We tell them there's a better place than this, let us take you there. We tell them there is a place where you can work more safely. This is how we bring them to the brothel. He refused to show his face or say his name to protect his identity. Kushi, one of the prominent madams in Daulatdia complained that her girls hardly get any customers, and so she feeds them steroids to make them look "healthier.
Local doctors say the steroids are highly addictive and have been used by over 90 per cent of the young girls in the brothel. The drug can cause damage to kidneys and bones, and in extreme cases can lead to death. But that doesn't stop the supply and demand for steroids in Daulatdia. Pharmacies surrounding the brothel sell packs of the medication for less than a dollar each on a daily basis. Girls get it, box after box. There's a lot more in other shops," says a clerk at a pharmacist inside the brothel.
Bangladesh is one of the few Islamic countries that doesn't criminalize prostitution. But there has been a history of brothels being shut down. Last year, local authorities demolished the Tangail brothel in northern Bangladesh. That however hasn't stopped customers from pouring into Daulatdia. According to a UN survey, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis visit sex workers everyday. The industry is unregulated and brings men like Karim, a year-old customer of seven years, who says he prefers to have sex with little girls.
He encourages them to take drugs with him like Yaba, a methamphetamine, before he has intercourse. According to Action Aid, there are about , women working in Bangladesh's sex industry, most of them teenagers.
