Sex Workers and TG

Marginalized and Excluded Communities

Those choosing or compelled to become sex workers are not only socially outcasts and cut off from social relations, they face extreme violence including murder, rape, deception and neglect in everyday life. They are the modern slaves. Once a girl or woman takes this occupation, she has hardly any chance for exit.

SEHD, in a survey of 2018, found 3,721 female sex workers (FSWs) working in 11 brothels in Tangail, Jamalpur, Mymensingh, Faridpur, Rajbari, Jashore, Khulna, Bagerhat and Potuakhali districts.  However, the total number of female sex workers (FSWs) is much bigger in the country—around 93,000. According to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh (2016). Of these FSWs, 36,593 are based in the streets, 36,539 in residences and 15,960 in hotels. This report is on the floating and brothel-based sex workers, which helps understand their current condition, general difficulties they face, their fragility in society and their needs and demands.

Books for sex workers and TG