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Twenty-year-old Noor was just 10 when she was sold off to a brothel owner and forced into sex trade in West Bengal. She was rescued by activists a decade later and went on to become a vociferous community mobiliser. Noor says prostitution should not be legalised.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Prostitution is a vicious world. If a woman gets trapped, it sucks the life out of her. Only traffickers and pimps profit from it. Legalising prostitution will not empower women,\u2019 Noor told\u00a0 when she was here for a conference.<\/p>\n

She said when a girl first enters the brothel, she is called a \u2018chukri\u2019 or a trainee prostitute, offered a roof and two meals a day but her earnings are kept with the brothel owner.<\/p>\n

Even if she is given the permission to go after a year or so, she is not given the money. So she returns.<\/p>\n

As age progresses and her clients wear down, she becomes an \u2018adhya\u2019, meaning half. She is given half her earnings but has to pay for her bed and food. She stays on until a miserable end.<\/p>\n

Fatima Nat Dhuniya, another survivor of the sex trade, said instead of legalising prostitution, what is actually needed is an amendment in the law so that clients and not the victims are held accountable.<\/p>\n

\u2018All organisations and individuals who say that prostitution should be legalised have not lived our lives. If you really want to help us, change the law so that next time the policeman does not harass the woman and punishes the client instead,\u2019 Dhuniya told .<\/p>\n

\u2018If there is no customer, the shop will close,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

Dhuniya said she was married off at the age of nine. She kept going back home to be with her friends and play with them, but she was always sent back.<\/p>\n

\u2018I found it strange that my mother-in-law used to keep five girls in the house who served clients. I was exploited and beaten up by my husband,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Then I met a woman from an NGO who said it was really on me if I wanted to fight my way out of the mess. I started speaking to the girls and found that they were bought for a price and had to serve clients. But the money remained with my mother-in-law,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

With great difficulty and even greater courage, she told her parents \u2013 who had no idea about the situation \u2013 and left the house. Later she helped the girls escape.<\/p>\n

Today she works as a community mobiliser who helps the daughters of sex workers study, so they are not forced to go the same way.<\/p>\n

According to Sheila Jeffreys, feminist scholar and political activist from Australia where prostitution is legalised, it has not helped combat illegal sex trade.<\/p>\n

\u2018Legalisation of prostitution in Australia has not helped in combating the illegal industry, nor has it helped in overall betterment of women,\u2019 said Jeffreys, who has authored the book \u2018The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Eighty percent of the brothels in a state for instance are illegal and organised crime thrives in these illegal brothels,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

Suggesting instead to make a law or amend the law that criminalises the client and not the victim, Ruchira Gupta of Apne Aap, an NGO that works for the upliftment of women who have been victims of sex trafficking, said: \u2018Maybe we can take the lead from Korea.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018South Korea has passed a law that punishes buyers. In the Philippines too, more and more people \u2013 which includes a lot of men \u2013 are moving the senate, taking up the issue of prostitution and how victims should not be victimised. So we can follow them and amend our law, the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, so that the victim is not punished,\u2019 Gupta told.<\/p>\n

Gupta, who organised a conference of survivors and members of civil society from at least 11 countries in the capital this week, also released a list of 10 reasons why prostitution should not be legalised.<\/p>\n

\u2018Legalisation of prostitution promotes sex trafficking, increases child prostitution and does not protect women in prostitution. It increases the demand for prostitution and thereby boosts the motivation of men to buy women for sex in a much wider setting,\u2019 said the list, endorsed by several activists and survivors.<\/p>\n

\u2018And women in systems of prostitution do not want the sex industry legalised or decriminalised,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

Those in support of decriminalisation of prostitution say it will control the sex industry, will promote women\u2019s health and give them the power to stop being exploited by removing the menace of middlemen.<\/p>\n

Quoting the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Apne Aap said there are 1.2 million prostituted children in India, of which girls form the majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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