I caught this on Netflix streaming the other night. All I can say is How Depressing! I am curious regarding the Bangaledesh segment. Where were the police? And shouldn't the producers of the film, be held accountable for aiding and abetting child prostitution? Some of the women looked as young as twelve years. As for the johns, what type of self esteem could they possibly have by having sex with a minor?
Turned documentary off after this segment.
It's a foreign country with different laws. I'm not saying it's legal. But police in those third world countries regard women and children in a different light and priority. Why do u think so many paedophiles go to Thailand and the Philippines? It's easier to get away with that *beep* abroad legal or not
shareAfter a quick Google search, it seems the age of consent in Bangladesh is 14 years old. None of the prostitutes featured in the segment appeared younger than that.
And no, the producers of this documentary should not be held accountable. They are filming a documentary about the world as it is. They didn't build the brothel and hire the prostitutes. The producers' responsibility is present the truth as they capture it. If the truth of prostitution in Bangladesh is that girls as young as 14 are working and living in squalor, than they are doing their job to capture it. They are not there to save these girls, they are presenting a portrait of legal prostitution in three different countries. It is up to those of us who watch it and feel deeply about it to do something. And it's arguable if it's even our responsibility. I do not believe that the mission of Western Democracy is to save the rest of the world and fix everything so that every street in the world looks like the quiet green suburbs of White Christian America. Girls shouldn't have to sell their bodies like that, but I'm not going to sit in my warm office and pretend on the Internet that I know how to fix that so it never happens again.
hurried up for waiting