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KDU Law Journal Volume 04 Issue II
September, 2024
be prohibited. Along with pornography and other forms of sexual
entertainment, it is one part of the sexuality orientated businesses.
Places specifically dedicated to prostitution are called brothels.
Various perspectives on the state of prostitution and the law vary
widely throughout the world. Prostitution is viewed by some as a
procedure of strength in contradiction of women and families that
contributes toward the new crime of human trafficking.

“Oxford Dictionary” defines sex work as, “remunerated service in
the sex manufacturing, including prostitution and pornography”.
The period is second-hand to highlight the similarities amid this
industry’s exertion then additional old-style professions.

Carol Leigh came up with the term “sex work” toward jumping an
undertaking to change how individuals thought about sex work. It
had sex work as a job instead of a status. They forbade the term
“prostitution” because the situation implied delinquency, which
prevented them from receiving health, legal, and social services
from the state. Adults who regularly or occasionally consent to
provide sexual facilities in conversation for currency otherwise
properties are denoted towards by way of “sex workers”
The Indian Experience with “Rescue and
Rehabilitation”
The “rescue and rehabilitation” approach claims that sex workers’
social and economic conditions can be better quality through
compulsorily “rescuing” sex workers through brothels and red-light
zones, introducing them to “safe homelands,” then providing them
with “reputable” service. This method has obvious repercussions
in the form of entry-restrictive measures like banning the hiring
of consenting individuals for prostitution . Certain assumptions
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regarding sex work are made in the “rescue and rehabilitation”
method: One, “immoral” sex work; two, sex work is intrinsically

2 Mishra, G., Protecting the Rights of Sex Workers: The Indian Experience, Mishra, G. and
Chandramani, R Sexuality, Gender, and Rights (New Delhi, Sage Publishers, 2005), 89, 96.
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