Stolen Childhood - Girl Prostitutes from Bangladesh

Imagine a girl under 13 years old who plays like an adult, puts on a dress, puts on makeup to hide her youth under a mask of makeup. Imagine the smile on her face and her innocence. Imagine that instead of just playing with being an adult, a girl goes out and sells her body to men up to 12 times a day. This is what life looks like as a teenage prostitute, Bristy, who lives with her mother, a former prostitute, in Daulatdia, Bangladesh's largest brothel. Bristy is one of the most popular here, mainly due to her young age.

(Total 48 photos)

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1. Young prostitute Bristy puts on make-up to appear more mature to clients. (© LISA WILTSE)

2. A client trades for an underage prostitute in the Daulatdia brothel, on the banks of the Padma River, Bangladesh. (© LISA WILTSE)

3. Prostitutes hide their faces from the photographer. (© LISA WILTSE)

4. A girl named Mushimi before leaving for evening work. (© LISA WILTSE)

5. Young Sonya waiting for clients. Sonya serves up to 12 clients a day. (© LISA WILTSE)

6. Customers and shopkeepers in an alley near a brothel. (© LISA WILTSE)

7. Prostitutes are waiting in the corner to dance for clients. (© LISA WILTSE)

8. Underage Sonya puts on makeup to look older. (© LISA WILTSE)

9. Underage prostitute Sumi in the largest brothel in Bangladesh Daulatdia. (© LISA WILTSE)

10. Children of prostitutes from the Daulatdia brothel in the classroom of a school sponsored by Save the Children in Faridpur. (© LISA WILTSE)

11. A prostitute in a small pharmacy is on a drip due to dehydration. (© LISA WILTSE)

12. Daily life on the Padma River near the Daulatdia brothel in Faridur, Bangladesh. Truckloads of rice, jute, sugarcane and fish from the west and southwest of the country stand here for two to three days to cross the river to the capital, Dhaka. (© LISA WILTSE)

13. The boy looks into the camera, past which the underage worker of the panel passes. (© LISA WILTSE)

14. Many of these prostitutes are not yet 15. (© LISA WILTSE)

15. A trucker sleeps in one of the guest houses in the lanes of the Daulatdia quarter. Truck drivers make up the bulk of the brothel's customers. (© LISA WILTSE)

16. Handbag of one of the prostitutes. (© LISA WILTSE)

17. An underage prostitute in a dark alley of the largest brothel in the country. (© LISA WILTSE)

18. The client approaches the minor Sonya. (© LISA WILTSE)

19. The daughter of a prostitute is dressed up for a birthday party. Girls whose mothers are body dealers take over their jobs at the age of 12 or 13. (© LISA WILTSE)

20. Misumi with her boyfriend. In a brothel, "boyfriend" refers to the most regular client who has the right not to use a condom. (© LISA WILTSE)

21. A prostitute washes sacred paints from her body after she passed out from dehydration. (© LISA WILTSE)

22. Client and underage prostitute. (© LISA WILTSE)

23. Underage Jessna is resting in her room before the night shift. (© LISA WILTSE)

24. The owner of the store and a regular customer of the brothel. (© LISA WILTSE)

25. Girls born in a brothel play in the fields by a small lake behind the brothel. This place also serves as a cemetery for prostitutes. (© LISA WILTSE)

26. Birds on electric wires in the country's largest brothel on the banks of the Padma River. The alleyways of the brothel are a stuffy place filled with people and the temperature can rise to 50 degrees. (© LISA WILTSE)

27. An underage prostitute is trying to lure a client. Prostitutes learn early to act aggressively and persistently, because the competition here is not a joke. (© LISA WILTSE)

28. Sonya is preparing for the evening shift. (© LISA WILTSE)

29. A night butterfly is waiting for a client in a dark alley. (© LISA WILTSE)

30. Brothel worker resting in her room before the night shift. (© LISA WILTSE)

31. Workers are repairing roads for trucks arriving by ferry from Dhaka. Truck drivers make up the bulk of the brothel's customers. (© LISA WILTSE)

32. A man is shaved at a brothel in Daulatdia. (© LISA WILTSE)

33. Underage prostitute Bristy in the alleys of the brothel quarter. (© LISA WILTSE)

34. Sonya puts on makeup to look older. Since young girls dominate the industry in Bangladesh, maintaining beauty and youth guarantees them jobs and earnings. (© LISA WILTSE)

35. Primary school for children of prostitutes in Faridpur. (© LISA WILTSE)

36. A girl after serving a client in her room in a brothel. (© LISA WILTSE)

37. Sonya prepares the room for the evening reception of clients. (© LISA WILTSE)

38. Girls do laundry in the area, which also serves as a cemetery for prostitutes. (© LISA WILTSE)

39. A drunken and emaciated prostitute smokes early in the morning, having served two clients the day before. (© LISA WILTSE)

40. Juvenile moths are waiting for customers in the alley. (© LISA WILTSE)

41. A young prostitute in the fields by the lake. (© LISA WILTSE)

42. The room of one of the teenage prostitutes of the brothel. (© LISA WILTSE)

43. A child is resting in a corner of a shop in the alleys near a brothel. (© LISA WILTSE)

44. View of the Daulatdia brothel at sunset. (© LISA WILTSE)

45. Kindergarten for children of prostitutes in Faridpur. (© LISA WILTSE)

46. Sonya adjusts makeup while the client leaves from another prostitute. (© LISA WILTSE)

47. One of the prostitutes in the narrow lanes. (© LISA WILTSE)

48. A room in a brothel. (© LISA WILTSE)