Misogyny Alive and Well-er in the World ... Thanks to Dexamethasone

Bangladesh's teenage brothels hold dark steroid secret | Reuters: "COW FATTENING DRUG

Also known as Dexamethasone, Oradexon treats inflammation and allergies in humans and is used by farmers to fatten livestock.

Charities say the over-the-counter drug is taken by 90 percent of sex workers in Kandapara and the other 14 legalized brothels across this impoverished South Asian nation.

The girls are first forced to take it by their madams, or "sardarnis", who run the brothels."

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Others, who have been left by their sardarnis because they are too old or not-profitable, are in principle free to leave but choose not to, fearful of the social exclusion they will face in the conservative, Muslim society outside of Kandapara.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/19/us-bangladesh-prostitution-idUSBRE82I02A20120319