Photojournalism: Child Marriage & Sex Trafficking in Bangladesh: GNB_JPGS__459

Shyamol Sheel, 28, from Goalonda, has been visiting Daulatdia brothel for ten years“My wife recently left me, so I came to the brothel to try and distract myself from the pain, but I’m so heartbroken that I think I’ve lost my libido. I miss my son more than my wife. He’s called Akash, and he’s ten. He’s part of me.My wife was about ten years old when I married her. When I saw her for the first time, I thought, ‘I just want to take care of you’. I know she was young, but we didn’t have any problems. We had sex for the first time two days after the wedding. The sex was better with her because she was my wife so it was free, and she was my family so I could do what I wanted. Now she’s gone, I don’t know how to cope.”

Shyamol Sheel, 28, from Goalonda, has been visiting Daulatdia brothel for ten years

“My wife recently left me, so I came to the brothel to try and distract myself from the pain, but I’m so heartbroken that I think I’ve lost my libido. I miss my son more than my wife. He’s called Akash, and he’s ten. He’s part of me.

My wife was about ten years old when I married her. When I saw her for the first time, I thought, ‘I just want to take care of you’. I know she was young, but we didn’t have any problems. We had sex for the first time two days after the wedding. The sex was better with her because she was my wife so it was free, and she was my family so I could do what I wanted. Now she’s gone, I don’t know how to cope.”