Prostitution: Should it be made legalized or not?
It’s been a long debate in India that whether the
Prostitution Industry should be made legalized or not!!
Few Highlights in Current India:
1. According
to National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) India has close to 637,000
sex-workers & over 5 Lakh customers visit red light area on a daily basis.
2. Kolkata’s Sonagachi is Asia’s biggest red-light
area.
3. Delhi’s (GB road) has more than 3000 sex workers
in 80 small brothels. This shows their poor condition.
4. Sex workers are 13 times more at risk of HIV compared to general population
5. About 36% of workers are below the age of 18
years.
6. Estimates say that Child prostitution is a
multi-million dollar industry in India of which majority is imported from Nepal
as sex slaves.
7. Methods
to engage in this profession:
·
Human trafficking
·
Self- engaged
Before we begin to develop opinions about people who willingly
work as prostitutes, it is important to remember one advice: “You never really
understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you
climb into his skin and walk around”.
The ability to discern and choose between morality and
immorality is a prerogative of privilege. The fact that we, the constituents of
mainstream society, had an opportunity to attend school, to pursue our interest
and take up profession we are passionate about, is a privilege that not
everybody had access to. But these people under the burden of poverty and
hunger choose to spend time in red-light area. Even if at any time they want to
get out of this swamp, they CANNOT due to social stigma.
So, in order to safeguard them from social evils, improve
their health and living standard and to bring them under law, should it be made legalized?
But it will lead to few more problems like:
1. It can further increase the cases of human trafficking.
2. The youngsters will be attracted towards brothel
more.
3. Reports say that cases of rape could increase
due to this.
4. It will deeply affect the socio-cultural and
moral values of the society.
Presently, a good education to women and girls seems the
only solution so that they become capable enough to earn a decent living.
Prostitution, regardless of whether it should be decriminalized or not, involves so much agony or trauma for girls because about 80 to 85% of them are juvenile. So in my strongest opinion, prostitution should not be legalized.
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