After SC verdict, Will the Dance bars in Mumbai be reopened? I was surprised to see a news on one of the Indian news channel showing how the life
of bar dancers has turned miserable after the dance bars are closed.
There were some 10-15 bar dancers grieving as there bars are closed and they are
not employed yet. Also they are only bread winner in there family.
But really in 8 long years these ladies are jobless and nothing good has
happened them. Why didn't they ask for government or NGO’s help to get
other job. Are these ladies used to the easy money of dance bars. Are
they used to lavish and luxurious lifestyle out of the money from dance
bar customers and they are refusing to give up that. Do they want to
work in other profession where they have more work and relatively
lesser money like that of a household help or a beautician in the
parlors or even in any supermarket as a cleaner or anything else which
do not need any educational qualification or specific skills. Has that
become too difficult for them to find any other respectable job in 8
long years. We cannot ignore the fact that human trafficking is
increased because of Dance bars and prostitution.
Many unwilling teenage girls are pushed into sex business for money. Dance bars open the doors for prostitution. This happens in the darkest hours of the night in the shadow of society without the light of law and ray of Sun. Mr Patil has taken a bold step to ban Dance bars and was welcomed. But now is it the time to think on next level, Prostitution? Shall we take a bold step to legalize prostitution? Legalized and regularized prostitution can work in favor of society and women involved in the sex business. Blood test for STDs can be conducted periodically compulsorily. One cannot support to legalize prostitution and reduce STD infections like AIDS at the same time. As the women in sex industry are more prone to HIV and likewise they are able to spread the disease to their multiple partners. But regular check up and proper counseling to such women can work in favor. We can have some strict rules for the their customers for the protection to be used. We can have policies on prostitution, brothel ownership, and pimping so that the women get their fare dues and not the pimps and brothel owners. There can be ban on brothel and pimps so that call girls can deal with the customers directly to avoid the middle man. As they are trapped in illegal system, they don’t get their dues, the larger part of the income goes to pimps and brothel owners. It can be made legal, as long as it is limited by fair conditions and terms; a woman's body is HER body and no one else's, therefore she should be able to do with it what she pleases and ban pimp and brothels as they consume her income. If prostitution were decriminalized it would be fair to require that all prostitutes have frequent medical check-ups by sufficient doctors to prevent the spread of STIs. People forcing women and children into the trade could be decreased dramatically because the prostitutes that voluntarily worked could report it to authorities without having to worry about revealing themselves. Nowadays surrogate mothers are renting their womb to another couple then why is our society not accepting prostitution as any other profession. Workers in the sex industry deserve the same rights as workers in any other trade, including the right to legal protection from crimes such as sexual harassment, sexual abuse and rape...There are some unscrupulous people in all walks of life -government, law, journalism, banking, law enforcement, the stock exchange, medicine, the clergy, prostitution, etc. If every profession were criminalized when some of its members broke the law, there would be few legally sanctioned professions. Unscrupulous people should be summarily dealt with by the law, regardless of which profession they corrupt. The illegal and forced prostitution violates the right to liberty and security, and the prohibition of slavery, of forced labor and of trafficking in persons because millions of women and girls all over the world are held in sexual slavery to meet the demand of even more millions of male buyers of sex, and to generate profits for the capitalists of sex. Studies show that prostitutes suffer high level of physical and mental abuse. Woman are literally sold and bought like property. Prostitution will happen anyway but legalization and regulation will help stem the abuses. We can take better care of women’s health and at least they will get their fare dues and they will not need the curtain of dance bar to hide behind.
They have to face Violence at every step. Legalization will lead to rehabilitation of their children and prostitutes who has been infected by STDs like HIV. Time is changing and so is India. We have accepted porn start Sunny Leony as a mainstream bollywood actress. Isn't it a time for us to accept prostitutes as a part of our society. Are we ready to give them the respect and dignity they deserve.
Many unwilling teenage girls are pushed into sex business for money. Dance bars open the doors for prostitution. This happens in the darkest hours of the night in the shadow of society without the light of law and ray of Sun. Mr Patil has taken a bold step to ban Dance bars and was welcomed. But now is it the time to think on next level, Prostitution? Shall we take a bold step to legalize prostitution? Legalized and regularized prostitution can work in favor of society and women involved in the sex business. Blood test for STDs can be conducted periodically compulsorily. One cannot support to legalize prostitution and reduce STD infections like AIDS at the same time. As the women in sex industry are more prone to HIV and likewise they are able to spread the disease to their multiple partners. But regular check up and proper counseling to such women can work in favor. We can have some strict rules for the their customers for the protection to be used. We can have policies on prostitution, brothel ownership, and pimping so that the women get their fare dues and not the pimps and brothel owners. There can be ban on brothel and pimps so that call girls can deal with the customers directly to avoid the middle man. As they are trapped in illegal system, they don’t get their dues, the larger part of the income goes to pimps and brothel owners. It can be made legal, as long as it is limited by fair conditions and terms; a woman's body is HER body and no one else's, therefore she should be able to do with it what she pleases and ban pimp and brothels as they consume her income. If prostitution were decriminalized it would be fair to require that all prostitutes have frequent medical check-ups by sufficient doctors to prevent the spread of STIs. People forcing women and children into the trade could be decreased dramatically because the prostitutes that voluntarily worked could report it to authorities without having to worry about revealing themselves. Nowadays surrogate mothers are renting their womb to another couple then why is our society not accepting prostitution as any other profession. Workers in the sex industry deserve the same rights as workers in any other trade, including the right to legal protection from crimes such as sexual harassment, sexual abuse and rape...There are some unscrupulous people in all walks of life -government, law, journalism, banking, law enforcement, the stock exchange, medicine, the clergy, prostitution, etc. If every profession were criminalized when some of its members broke the law, there would be few legally sanctioned professions. Unscrupulous people should be summarily dealt with by the law, regardless of which profession they corrupt. The illegal and forced prostitution violates the right to liberty and security, and the prohibition of slavery, of forced labor and of trafficking in persons because millions of women and girls all over the world are held in sexual slavery to meet the demand of even more millions of male buyers of sex, and to generate profits for the capitalists of sex. Studies show that prostitutes suffer high level of physical and mental abuse. Woman are literally sold and bought like property. Prostitution will happen anyway but legalization and regulation will help stem the abuses. We can take better care of women’s health and at least they will get their fare dues and they will not need the curtain of dance bar to hide behind.
They have to face Violence at every step. Legalization will lead to rehabilitation of their children and prostitutes who has been infected by STDs like HIV. Time is changing and so is India. We have accepted porn start Sunny Leony as a mainstream bollywood actress. Isn't it a time for us to accept prostitutes as a part of our society. Are we ready to give them the respect and dignity they deserve.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please write your views.....i would love to listen you