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Prostitution Debate in India

This document discusses the issue of whether prostitution should be legalized in India. It provides background information on prostitution in India, including facts about the number of people involved, common types of prostitution, and causes such as poverty and lack of education. The document also examines the health and psychological effects of prostitution as well as India's current laws which ban organized activities but do not regulate prostitution itself. Both sides of the argument around legalizing prostitution in India are presented.

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Prostitution Debate in India

This document discusses the issue of whether prostitution should be legalized in India. It provides background information on prostitution in India, including facts about the number of people involved, common types of prostitution, and causes such as poverty and lack of education. The document also examines the health and psychological effects of prostitution as well as India's current laws which ban organized activities but do not regulate prostitution itself. Both sides of the argument around legalizing prostitution in India are presented.

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Should prostitution be legalized or not in India???

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Scope

Meaning of prostitution

Facts Types Causes Effects Legality Immoral

Traffic (Prevention) Act


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What is prostitution?
Prostitution

means the act of a female offering her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind and whether offered immediately or otherwise.

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Facts
India,

along with Thailand and the Philippines, has 1.3 million children in its sex-trade centers

The

largest and best-known red-light districts are Sonagachi in Kolkata, Kamathipura in Mumbai, G. B. Road in New 5/27/12 Delhi, Reshampura in Gwalior and Budhwar

Cont...
According

to Human

Rights Watch, there are approximately 10 million prostitutes in India


There

are more than

100,000 women in prostitution in Bombay,


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Types
Street Lot lizards Brothels Sex tourism Escort prostitution

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Causes
Poverty Ill

and unemployment

treatment by parents company

Bad

Family prostitutes Social customs to arrange marriage


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Inability

Lack Prior

Cont

of sex education marriage and desertion

incest and rape

Early

Ignorance,

and acceptance of prostitution 5/27/12

Effects
Drug

abuse

HIV/AIDS

(human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) inflammatory disease

Gonorrhea Pelvic
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Early Rape

pregnancy

Post-traumatic stress disorder acts of


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Other

Legality

Prostitution legal and regulated Prostitution (the exchange of sex for money) is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; prostitution is not regulated Prostitution illegal No data
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Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act


Sex

Workers and Babus and trafficking

Clients Pimps

Brothel Procuring

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Should prostitution be legalized or not in India???


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Bibliography

(Human Rights Watch, Robert I. Freidman, "Indias Shame: Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption Are Leading to An AIDS Catastrophe," The Nation, 8 April 1996)

Soma Wadhwa, "For sale childhood," Outlook, 1998 (Frederick Moronha, India Abroad News Service, 9 August 1997) (Masako Iijima, "S. Asia urged to unite against child prostitution," Reuters, 19 June 1998)

(Central Welfare Board, Meena Menon, "The Unknown Faces")


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(Executive

Director of

SANLAAP, Indrani Sinha, Paper on Globalization and Human Rights")


(Radhika

Coomaraswamy, UN

Special Report on Violence Against Women, Gustavo Capdevila, IPS, 2 April 1997)
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Thank you!!!!
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Presentation by Ginelle Dsouza


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