Photojournalism: Child Marriage & Sex Trafficking in Bangladesh: GNB_JPGS__214

Mohammad Moksed Ali, 30, works at a transport company, has been visiting Mymensingh brothel for 15 years{quote}I started coming here just to drink. Then I met a girl, called Laboni, and I fell in love with her instantly. I want to get her out of here, but it's going to take six months to one year for me to organise that, because I'm married to another woman outside the brothel. I guess I'm 80 per cent ready to rescue her. Everybody in my family knows about her, and that I'm in love with her. Everybody, except my wife. When Laboni talks about her life before the brothel, it makes me sad. She only talks to me when she's drunk. Before she told me, I didn't know that the girls here were unhappy. I thought that they were here by choice. My entire view of the brothel has changed since learning that. It's so unfair, and it's all because of the traffickers. The traffickers don't sell boys - nobody would buy them. But they can sell girls, and that's what it comes down to. Girls in this country have monetary value, and that's what needs to stop.{quote}

Mohammad Moksed Ali, 30, works at a transport company, has been visiting Mymensingh brothel for 15 years

"I started coming here just to drink. Then I met a girl, called Laboni, and I fell in love with her instantly. I want to get her out of here, but it's going to take six months to one year for me to organise that, because I'm married to another woman outside the brothel. I guess I'm 80 per cent ready to rescue her. Everybody in my family knows about her, and that I'm in love with her. Everybody, except my wife.

When Laboni talks about her life before the brothel, it makes me sad. She only talks to me when she's drunk. Before she told me, I didn't know that the girls here were unhappy. I thought that they were here by choice. My entire view of the brothel has changed since learning that. It's so unfair, and it's all because of the traffickers. The traffickers don't sell boys - nobody would buy them. But they can sell girls, and that's what it comes down to. Girls in this country have monetary value, and that's what needs to stop."