Please refresh the page and retry. S ex work is legal in Bangladesh. So is child marriage. Gently, she smears pale concealer over her face with her fingertips and blends it into the skin. She checks her reflection in a small turquoise mirror, and breaks into a smile. But clamber past the crowds of wide-eyed girls squatting on red plastic buckets by the entrance to step inside, and you hear a different story.

C Corresponding author. Email: nli jhsph. Background : A national survey found that more than one-tenth of unmarried Bangladeshi adolescents were sexually experienced and much of this experience involves high-risk behaviours such as unprotected sexual intercourse with commercial sex workers. However, very few studies have explored the factors that contribute to premarital sex among Bangladeshi adolescents. Multivariate statistical methods were applied to identify risk and protective factors for premarital sex among Bangladeshi male adolescents. Results : Among unmarried males between ages of 15 and 19 years,

Sexuality in Bangladesh is influenced by religion and culture. Bangladeshi culture is predominantly conservative and patriarchal. Several issues in Bangladesh, including Sex education , romance , homosexuality , and sexual behavior are taboo topics. Bangladesh follows the traditional culture of arranged marriage where a marriage can only be done when a man is not unemployed and reproduction is the main base of the Bangladeshi family-system. Any discussion around sex and sexuality is taboo.

Sold by traffickers, trapped for years and raped many times a day … this is the life of tens of thousands of underage girls in Bangladesh. We hear their stories. A fter five years in the brothel, Labonni stopped dreaming of being rescued.