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

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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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