Adolescent girls working in the adult entertainment sector (AES) are amongst the most vulnerable adolescent populations. Due to huge income differences, girls go back to AES after rehabilitation. The research uses qualitative methods and ethnography to explore such underlying gendered norms that drive adolescent girls into commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), impact on their psychosocial wellbeing, education and learning prospectus and inter linkages between internal and international trafficking. Additional new contribution will be looking at girls who are in street-based prostitution, a population unreached by formal research and those working in guest houses, who are less accessible.