My World

Was watching We The People, a show by Barkha Dutt where some burning issues are discussed with a panel of people from different walks of life, on NDTV. The topic for the discussion today was Decriminalisation of Prostitution.  Before hearing the arguments of the people, I was against the decriminalisation of prostitution. I very obviously took prostitution as crime. I was and am of the view that legalising activity like this will encourage people to indulge in more of these activities.

But seeing this show where some famous advocates, general public and even some prostitutes were present to give their opinion, made me a little confused to take onto one stand.  Through this show I became aware of some of the realities of people in this business like how they are being exploited by the police, customers etc and that some of the people very willingly want to be in this profession as its easy to make money here. It is simply impossible to distinguish between
the people willingly into the business of prostitution and those who are trafficked against  their wishes.

Prostitutes present in the show were of the say that they were getting more money in this business than any other professions. One of them had left their salesgirl jobs of 5000 INR to be into this business where they would get 5 times more money.

But they were very much disturbed on the fact that they were harassed by the policemen and  the society didn’t look upon them with dignity. Can’t blame the society also for this. From ages, we have been looking this as a very immoral profession. Some of the debators were of the opinion that passing  this bill would be boon for them as it will allow them to live a nuances-free life where they would not be exploited by the customers and police.

But some had the stand that it would encourage the expansion of this business. I think there should be a serious debate in the parliament without any politics on this before they pass this . I strongly believe that if this bill gets passed most of us would not be happy if someone opens a brothel in front of our house. Even legalising it would not change the mind of society. I think that  instead of legalising it, we should think of solutions where they are prohibited to enter into this business.

Yup its very easy  to say that we should think of alternative solutions. Would like to know the opinion of the readers of this post on this issue. Want to know what is the janta’s views on this or is there any alternative solution to stop people from getting into this profession.