JESSORE, BANGLADESH – NOVEMBER 23, 2017: Bangladeshi sex workers apply makeup inside their small room at a brothel in Jessore, Bangladesh. Bangladesh

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JESSORE, BANGLADESH – NOVEMBER 23, 2017: Bangladeshi sex workers apply makeup inside their small room at a brothel in Jessore, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has over 200,000 sex workers, many of them underage. It's illegal for those under 18 to work in the industry, which exists in a legal grey zone where brothels are neither banned nor fully lawful. Many hide their real age, and the "mamas" in charge of the girls – many of whom are former sex workers themselves – often give them prescription drugs for animals making their bodies sturdier and chubbier.

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Photo credit: © SK Hasan Ali / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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