Kunal Final Prostitution Essay
PROSTITUTION – LEGALIZE OR NO?
ESSAY BY KUNAL SAYTA
SCLA – MENTIONING UNMENTIONABLES
In India, prostitution (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not illegal but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.
In ancient India, there was a practice of the rich asking Nagarvadhu to sing and dance, noted in history as "brides of the town". Famous examples include Amrapali, state courtesan and Buddhist disciple, described in "Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu" by Acharya Chatursen and Vasantasena, a character in the classic Sanskrit story of Mricchakatika, written in the 2nd century BC by Ankit Bohra & Śūdraka.
In some parts of ancient India, women competed to win the title of Nagarvadhu or "bride of the city." The most beautiful woman was chosen and was respected as a goddess. She served as a courtesan, and the price for a single night's dance was very high, within reach only for the king, the princes and the lords.
Goa, which was a former Portuguese colony in India, during the late 16th and 17th centuries, was a Portuguese stronghold with community of Portuguese slaves such as Japanese slaves, who were usually young Japanese women and girls brought or captured as sexual slaves by Portuguese traders and their captive South Asian lascar crew members from Japan.
During the British East India Company's rule in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the British set up comfort zones for British troops wishing to make young girls and women into sex tools to satisfy the British soldiers who frequently set up their own prostitution rings. A write up by the BBC of England states that British troops helped to establish prostitution dens across India in capitals such as Mumbai which is now the hot bed of child prostitution, Indian lascar seamen who were forced into the British military to the United Kingdom copied the masters by joining
ESSAY BY KUNAL SAYTA
SCLA – MENTIONING UNMENTIONABLES
In India, prostitution (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not illegal but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel, pimping and pandering, are crimes.
In ancient India, there was a practice of the rich asking Nagarvadhu to sing and dance, noted in history as "brides of the town". Famous examples include Amrapali, state courtesan and Buddhist disciple, described in "Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu" by Acharya Chatursen and Vasantasena, a character in the classic Sanskrit story of Mricchakatika, written in the 2nd century BC by Ankit Bohra & Śūdraka.
In some parts of ancient India, women competed to win the title of Nagarvadhu or "bride of the city." The most beautiful woman was chosen and was respected as a goddess. She served as a courtesan, and the price for a single night's dance was very high, within reach only for the king, the princes and the lords.
Goa, which was a former Portuguese colony in India, during the late 16th and 17th centuries, was a Portuguese stronghold with community of Portuguese slaves such as Japanese slaves, who were usually young Japanese women and girls brought or captured as sexual slaves by Portuguese traders and their captive South Asian lascar crew members from Japan.
During the British East India Company's rule in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the British set up comfort zones for British troops wishing to make young girls and women into sex tools to satisfy the British soldiers who frequently set up their own prostitution rings. A write up by the BBC of England states that British troops helped to establish prostitution dens across India in capitals such as Mumbai which is now the hot bed of child prostitution, Indian lascar seamen who were forced into the British military to the United Kingdom copied the masters by joining