Prostitution in Bangladesh has been legal since 2000, however it is not generally encouraged and child prostitution is widespread. Bangladesh is predominantly Muslim and despite strict restrictions, severe poverty have forced sectors in its society, specifically women, to engage in prostitution. Five years later, back in the same brothels, their situation is getting worse. Use of condoms has decreased sharply after government programs were halted. Violence against women has increased, and income remains the same despite inflation. Worst of all, children are still offered as sex slaves. Sex workers come and go but the only thing that is certain is the brothels and these women’s nightmare will remain the same. Society has forced them to live in darkness while men love them and hate them in equal measure, demanding their services while trying to get rid of them permanently. This is the intolerable contradiction that is their everyday lives.
