Prostitution in Bangladesh
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:44 am
A study by the JICA Research Institute (the research wing of the Japan International Cooperation Agency) conducted a nationally representative survey of child sex workers in Bangladesh looking at the sexual exploitation of trafficked children. They conducted both the survey and interviews with a large number of trafficked children. 1418 responses were obtained including 133 brothel-based girls, 198 hotel-based girls, 264 residence-based girls, 499 street-based girls, 141 boys, and 183 eunuchs. The report does not state where the boys and eunuchs were based.
All of the respondents were minors with an age range of 8 to 17. Average age for the entire set of 1418 was 15.5. If I read the tables right, the average age for both boys and eunuchs was lower than the average age for the total population although the ages are not clearly broken out in the tables. The tables do show boys and eunuchs as separate categories.
Of the child prostitutes surveyed, 9.9% were boys and 12.9% were eunuchs. Only 77.2% of those children trafficked for prostitution were girls and 23.8% were boys, of whom more than half were castrated. More than one in eight of the children trafficked for prostitution in Bangladesh is a castrated boy and one in ten is a boy not (yet?) castrated. Certainly not the general expectation of who is trafficked for prostitution.
Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Evidence from Bangladesh
JICA No. 175 (June 2018)
https://www.jica.go.jp/jica-ri/publicat ... p_175.html
All of the respondents were minors with an age range of 8 to 17. Average age for the entire set of 1418 was 15.5. If I read the tables right, the average age for both boys and eunuchs was lower than the average age for the total population although the ages are not clearly broken out in the tables. The tables do show boys and eunuchs as separate categories.
Of the child prostitutes surveyed, 9.9% were boys and 12.9% were eunuchs. Only 77.2% of those children trafficked for prostitution were girls and 23.8% were boys, of whom more than half were castrated. More than one in eight of the children trafficked for prostitution in Bangladesh is a castrated boy and one in ten is a boy not (yet?) castrated. Certainly not the general expectation of who is trafficked for prostitution.
Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Evidence from Bangladesh
JICA No. 175 (June 2018)
https://www.jica.go.jp/jica-ri/publicat ... p_175.html