EMERGING DIMENSIONS OF SEX WORKERS AND PROSTITUTION IN CYBERSPACE: REGULATORY CHALLENGES AND LIABILITIES OF INTERMEDIARIES

Abstract

Since the time immemorial the buying and selling of the sexual favors are the part of the human culture. Evidences are found in mythology, drama, art, sculptures, literature, music and many more. The evidence has also evolved that this celebrated profession has became necessary evil from the most reputed profession in the society. The most catastrophic thing about this profession is that everyone wants to visit that place and the person who visit them actually enjoy but in the society they pretend otherwise. Nothing has been changed in last 1000 years about the profession except the mode through which it is done. Previously it was brothel homes from kota and now on the Internet. If we have to define the word prostitution then we can say that the prostitution means the pleasure of physical need commonly sex in lieu of money or any favor in kind. According to the Act- “prostitution” means the sexual exploitation or abuse of persons for commercial purpose, and the expression “prostitute” shall be construed accordingly. According to American Heritage Dictionary defines prostitution as “the act or practice of engaging in sex acts for hire.” The question stills the same in spite of the oldest and righteous profession in the olden days why the people don’t want to talk about it and don’t want to think about them as because they are not the vote banks and they doesn’t involve in any type of direct work to the economy. India which is most emerging economy of the world and so called very rich in culture has to think again about this and decide that the prostitution was the part of the Indian culture or not? If yes, then why we are not ready to accept them as citizens of our society and as a mere human being sometime. Prostitution is a business carried by the prostitutes which are generally the women. The majority of prostitutes are females in India. This is generally an illegal work in the world; in India the prostitution is lawful but the associated works with the prostitution like running brothels, devadasi system, car picking, and working as pimps are illegal. A woman may simply choose to work as a prostitute based upon her personal choice and free will. I argue that the realm of prostitution is like a coin which has two faces to it. On the one side of this coin there lies freedom; this is where women have the choice of working as prostitutes based upon free will. The other side of the coin is where there iv does not lay any freedom for women to choose whether or not they wish to work as prostitutes. On this particular side, women are forced, abducted or deceived into prostitution. The prostitution basically leads towards the disease which caused due to the sexual contamination, the problem of STD’s including HIV, unwanted pregnancies, abortion and many more are very common in these women and the meaning of government drives against these issues is the drives against these women. If we talk about the modern day prostitution then the most popular form of prostitution is the Internet Prostitution or Online prostitution in which the women offer herself as an independent call girl or as a part of the call girl agency. The internet has become the most popular venue to find his match which remains anonymous. There is no need to visit the brothel homes and bargain with the agents. The best example for this is the online auctions website called Gesext offers the possibility to make a bid just like on ebay but on any kind of sexual services. It mostly contains the picture of a women along with the price, it also describe the sexual services a women offer to the men’s. The website got famous when a 19 year old girl sold her virginity to 6.650 euro with a doctor’s certificate. This website is also famous for the single mothers who offer themselves in order to become pregnant. The online prostitution is also very common because of the women who choose prostitution as their part time career option. The one more quality why this internet prostitution is famous is because of the role-play they offer to their clients. It is on the client that what they want from there to pretend like Girlfriend, Wife, any anonymous character or anyone. In short we can say that it is more than the prostitution, it is overall experience the girl take care of everybody needs of their clients. The main motive for this kind of services is that they make believe to the customer that they are making live not the only sex and they are not involve in any prostitution but they are genuinely a great couple.