hi dear ones,

Following is the dark reality of the INDIA.

A red-light district is a part of an urban area where there is a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses.

Causes of prostitution:

· Ill treatment by parents.

· Bad company.

· Family prostitutes.

· Social customs.

· Inability to arrange marriage,

· Lack of sex education, media.

· Prior incest and rape.

· Early marriage and desertion.

· Lack of recreational facilities, ignorance, and acceptance of prostitution.

· Economic causes include poverty and economic distress.

· Psychological causes include desire for physical pleasure, greed, and dejection.

Notorious red light districts of India include GB Road in Delhi, Sonagachi in Kolkata, Kamathipura in Mumbai, Budhwar Peth in Pune and Reshampura in Gwalior.

There are around 2.8 million prostitutes in the country and their number is increasing, as informed by Lok Sabha. Most of the girls are brought from Nepal and Bangladesh.

”Young girls are trafficked from Nepal to brothels in Mumbai and Kolkata at an average age of twelve. They are trapped into the vicious cycle of prostitution, debt and slavery. By the time they are in their mid-twenties, they are at the dead end”.

In modern India different kinds of prostitution is prevailing apart from prostitutes in brothel there are:

· Street prostitutes

· Bar dancers

· Call girls

· Religious prostitutes

· Escort girls

· Road side brothel

· Child prostitutes

· Gimmick prostitutes

· Beat prostitutes

Steps that should be taken in order to fight with prostitution:
# Formal education should be made available to those victims who are still within the school going age, while non-formal education should be made accessible to adults
# The Central and State Governments in partnership with non-governmental organizations should provide gender sensitive market driven vocational training to all those rescued victims who are not interested in education
# Rehabilitation and reintegration of rescued victims being a long-term Recruitment of adequate number of trained counselors and social workers in institutions/homes run by the government independently or in collaboration with non-governmental organizations
# Awareness generation and legal literacy on economic rights, particularly for women and adolescent girls should be taken up.
# Adequate publicity, through print and electronic media including child lines and women help lines about the problem of those who have been forced into prostitution.
# Culturally sanctioned practices like the system of devadasis, jogins, bhavins, etc. which provides a pretext for prostitution should be addressed suitably.

Can legalizing of Prostitution be a solution?


Some people opine that prostitution shall be made legal in India and accept them as a part of society because the problem of prostitution is inevitable.

The benefit of legalizing prostitution in India will be that at least we will have a track record of Sexworkers. And give access to medical facilities, which can control the spread of AIDS.

Benefits of legalizing prostitution are:

Legalization of prostitution and the sex industry will stop sex trafficking.
Legalization of prostitution will control the sex industry.
Legalization of prostitution will decrease hidden, illegal and street prostitution.
Legalization of prostitution will protect the women by giving them certain rights.
Women in systems of Prostitution want the sex industry legalized as they are the one who suffers the most as they don’t have any rights.
Legalization of prostitution will promote women’s health as they can have easy access to medical facilities which they don’t have when it is illegal.
Recognizing prostitution as an economic activity, thus enabling women in India to obtain working permits as “sex workers”.

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