One wonders why on earth the powers that be in India as well as our medieval moral brigade are persistently fighting a loosing battle against sex trade; said to be the oldest profession on earth!
After food, sex is the first prime need of humans. Clothing and shelter do have a role in human life but these come next to food and sex. Just imagine a man and woman left without clothing and shelter in a natural forest. What will they do after falling in a routine to satiate their hunger and thirst with the available resources? Will they weave clothes or build houses forthwith?
Coming to the present scenario in India , we find small and big eating joints here and there trying to get name and fame. These provide food on payment to satisfy hunger; the prime need of humans. Then, there are honoured health and nursing services to tend to the human body. Still further we have beauty parlours, massage parlours, sauna baths, dance bars, cabarets, all duly recognised.
If that is so, why not to have legally established ‘joints’ to provide sexual satisfaction on payment to the needy? And such joints recognised as a trade with medically tested sex workers without the fear of police raids and other stigmas will certainly save the society from corruption, disease and fear-psychosis. Also there will be much needed check on crimes like eve-teasing, rape, sodomy and related murders, maiming etc. Furthermore, there will be huge income for the government in the form of Service Tax and Income Tax, besides saving time and energy of police and judiciary.
To believe that the so called ‘tirade’ of the powers that be and our moral brigade is in any way successful in ‘curbing’ the sex trade, is just living in the proverbial fools’ paradise. Believe it or not, there exist all over India , individually run or fully organised sex services. Some of these may be really unknown to the law enforcing agencies and the moral brigade, while many operate on the force of regular underhand payments made to the powers that be. Those who need their services are countless including our saints and sages, some of whom are currently facing the law of the land sending shivers down the spine of their countless followers. The names of big and small politicians and bureaucrats often figure amongst those enjoying these services on the sly, but money and power often come into play to hush up. Those providing sex services on the sly and getting caught in the name of unearthing the ‘racket’ now and then form the mere tip of the iceberg while the mammoth trade goes on unhindered.
Just visualise the situation whereby a truck crew away from home for a number of days or weeks stopping on a roadside ‘Pooran ka dhaba’ for meals and rest during a long haul. What if after a hearty meal some needy crew members have the option to visit a legalized ‘joint’ for sexual satisfaction? Who will contact AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases in that case? Where will be the police-related fear and corruption? And what about the huge employment potential, the recognised sex trade will create more than beauty parlours, massage parlours, sauna baths, dance bars, cabarets, call centres, modelling, acting etc?
To cut the long story short, I know fully well, my ideas will attract hostile reaction from the female chauvinists crying horse to eulogise so called human dignity and all that. But, that is in vain. Before opposing my ideas they may think of the hard facts of life. Is there really no give and take of sexual favours for money in beauty parlours, massage parlours, sauna baths, dance bars, cabarets, modelling and acting? If not, what is meant by the term ‘couch potatoes’? And barring the few who dare to speak, how many of the women and girls involved, do not claim to be dignified until they are ‘caught’? What about four Mumbai gals caught recently, one of whom claiming to be an actress was charging rupee four lakh per night for sexual favours? Those who still have any doubt are requested to kindly read the Sulekha.com blog of ‘preetunair’ captioned “Goa story of sex and sin” to know the real colour of the cat.
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