Prostitution has existed in India for centuries in various forms. In ancient times, there was a practice of "brides of the town" and evidence of prostitution in writings from the 2nd century BC. During British rule in the late 18th and 19th centuries, British soldiers commonly visited Indian nautch dancers. Thousands of women and girls from Europe and Japan were also trafficked into India as sexual slaves during this time. Today, there are an estimated 10 million sex workers in India, many of whom enter the profession due to trafficking or deceit, and hundreds of thousands of children are involved in the sex trade as well. Several Indian cities have large red-light districts where prostitution is common.

1. PROSTITUTION IN
INDIA

2. • In ancient India, there was a practice of having Nagarvadhus, "brides
of the town"(grooms). Famous examples include Amrapali
• written in the 2nd century BC by Sudraka. In Goa, a former
Portuguese colony in India, during the late 16th and 17th
centuries, there was a community of Japanese slaves, who were
usually young Japanese women and girls brought or captured
as sexual slaves by Portuguese traders and their South
Asian lascar crewmembers from Japan
• During the British East India Company's rule in India in the late 18th
and early 19th centuries, it was initially fairly common for British
soldiers to frequently visit local Indian nautch dancers.
• In the 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands or even millions of
women and girls from continental Europe and Japan
were trafficked into British India
HISTORY

3. • Sex Workers: A prostitute who seduces or solicits shall be prosecuted.
Similarly, call girls can not publish phone numbers to the public.
(imprisonment up to 6 months with fine, point 8)
Sex worker also punished for prostitution near any public place or
notified area. (Imprisonment of up to 3 months with fine, point 7)
• Clients: A client is guilty of consorting with prostitutes and can be
charged if he engages in sex acts with a sex worker within
200 yards of a public place or "notified area". (Imprisonment of up to
3 months, point 7) The client may also be punished if the sex worker
is below 18 years of age. (From 7 to 10 years of imprisonment,
whether with a child or a minor, point 7)
• Pimps and Babus: Babus or pimps or live-in lovers who live off a
prostitute's earnings are guilty of a crime. Any adult male living with
a prostitute is assumed to be guilty unless he can prove otherwise.
(Imprisonment of up to 2 years with fine, point 4)
Immoral Traffic
(Prevention) Act - PITA

4. • Brothel: Landlords and brothel-keepers can be prosecuted,
maintaining a brothel is illegal. (From 1 to 3 years imprisonment with
fine for first offence, point 3) Detaining someone at a brothel for the
purpose of sexual exploitation can lead to prosecution.
(Imprisonment of more than 7 years, point 6)
• Procuring and trafficking: A person procures or attempts
to procure anybody is liable to be punished. Also a person who
moves a person from one place to another, (human trafficking), can
be prosecuted similarly. (From 3 to 7 years imprisonment with fine,
point 5)
• Rescued Women: The government is legally obligated to provide
rescue and rehabilitation in a "protective home" for any sex worker
requesting assistance. (Point 21)
Immoral Traffic
(Prevention) Act - PITA

5. • the All Bengal Women's Union interviewed a random sample of 160 sex
workers in Calcutta and, of those, 23 claimed that they had come of their
own accord, whereas the remaining 137 women claimed to have been
introduced into the sex trade by agents of various sorts. The breakdown
was as follows:
• Neighbour in connivance with parents: 7
• Neighbours as pimps (guardians not knowing): 19
• Aged sex workers from same village or locality: 31
• Unknown person/accidental meeting with pimp: 32
• Mother/sister/near relative in the profession: 18
• Lover giving false hope of marriage or job and selling to brothel: 14
• Close acquaintance giving false hope of marriage or job: 11
• "Husband" (not legally married): 3
• Husband (legally married): 1
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6. SOME FACTS RELATED TO
PROSTITUTION

7. • There are approximately 10million prostitutes in India.
(Human Rights Watch, Robert I. Friedman, "India’s
Shame :Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption Are
Leading to An AIDS Catastrophe," The Nation, 8 April
1996)
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8. • There are300,000-500,000children in prostitution in
India.
• (Rahul Bedi, "Bid To Protect Children As Sex
Tourism Spreads,"London‟s Daily Telegraph, 23
August, 1997)
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9. • 160,000 Nepalese women are held inIndia's brothels.
• (Executive Director of SAN LAAP, Indrani
Sinha,Paper on Globalization and Human Rights“)
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10. • About 5,000-7,000Nepalese girls are trafficked to
India everyday. 100,000-160,000Nepalese girls are
prostituted in brothels in India. About 45,000Nepalese
girls are in the brothels of Bombay and40,000 in
Calcutta.
• (Women‟s groups in Nepal, „Trafficking in Women
and Children: The Cases of Bangladesh, pp.8 &
9,UBINIG, 1995)
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11. • There are more than 100,000 women in prostitution in
Bombay, Asia‟s largest sex industry center. 90% of
the100,000 women in prostitution in Bombay are
indentured slaves.
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12. • In Bombay, children as young as 9 are bought for up
to 60,000 rupees, orUS$2,000, at auctions where Arabs
bid against Indian men who believe sleeping with a
virgin cures gonorrhea and syphilis.
• (Robert I. Friedman, "India‟s Shame: Sexual Slavery
and Political Corruption Are Leading to An AIDS
Catastrophe," The Nation, 8 April 1996)
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13. • The red light district in Bombay generates at least
$400 million a year in revenue, with 100,000prostitutes
servicing men365 days a year , averaging 6 customers
a day, at $2 each.
• (Robert I. Friedman, "India‟s Shame: Sexual Slavery
and Political Corruption Are Leading to An AIDS
Catastrophe," The Nation, 8April 1996)
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14. • India, along with Thailand and the Philippines, has
1.3million children in its sex-trade centers. The
children come from relatively poorer are as and are
trafficked to relatively richer ones.
• (Soma Wadhwa , "For sale childhood,"
Outlook, 1998)City Prostitute Population . Bombay
100,000Calcutta 100,000Delhi 40,000Agra 40,000
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15. • India and Pakistan are the main destinations for
children under16 who are trafficked in south Asia.
(MasakoIijima , "S. Asia urged to unite against
child prostitution," Reuters, 19June 1998)
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16. • Sonagachi in Kolkata, Kamathipura in Mumbai, G.B.
Road in New Delhi, Reshampura in
Gwalior, Budhwar Peth in Pune , host thousands of
sex workers & are the famous red light centers in
India.
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17. • Mumbai and Kolkata(Calcutta) have the country's largest
brothel based sex industry, with over 100,000 sex
workers in Mumbai. It is estimated that more than 50% of
the sex workers in Mumbai are HIV-positive. In Surat , a
study discovered that HIV prevalence among sex workers
had increased from 17% in 1992 to 43%in 2000.
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18. • Believe, they are not fond of doing it. They do this
because they want to eat , they want to wear cloths
, they want a shelter , they need medicine , their
children need education,
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19. • So which one of our systems like
Religious, Political, Educational, Cultural , Moral or
Social failed? Or a human in India is
no more God fearing?? Any religion, culture or
population isn’t advanced, educated & sound which lack
the women respect
• Let’s think on this
• “System Failure”
• Let’s think about
• “MERA BHARAT MAHAN”
THANK U..