The brothel sheds are homogeneous in layout, arranged out in rows, and the facade is opened to the river for displaying the sex workers and for making deals with the clients. Banishanta is inhabited mostly by women, around 150 female sex workers live here, most of them do not have any sort of existential identity. The hostile behavior of the climate has been creating severe intimidations of displacement for the sex workers. Nevertheless, Banishanta is fighting against the impacts of climate change just like the other twenty-eight coastal districts of Bangladesh. The brothel has a bitter history of being tattered by several cyclones like Sidr and Aila which caused the deaths of many sex workers and for those who survived they wandered to neighbouring villages (looking for support).

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 02, 2020 04:52 UTC