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: Śramana, Vol 55, No. 1-6/January-June 2004
i) Those who are mainly interested in singing songs
ii) Those who are interested in both singing and sexual business. iii) Those who are indulged in sexual business only.
Prostitution consists of two types of exploitation.
i) Sex Exploitation
ii) Economic Exploitation
Often rich persons being attracted by the outward makeup of prostitutes pay their fixed charges and get the sexual demands satisfied. This is the sex-exploitation. But prostitutes, after knowing the economic capabilities of their customers begin to exploit them and make them poor and penniless. This is economic exploitation of a society which makes it weak. Though the wealthy persons have sexual enjoyment with beautiful and young prostitutes they never want to marry with them. This is the misfortune of prostitutes which makes their lives hopeless and helpless. In the old age they find nobody to look after them. So in order to get their livelihood they either purchase some girls from their poor parents or cheat some young girls and after giving them training according to their own business get their business continued.
Sometimes prostitutes want to be free from their humiliating lives to have normal social life but they fail because
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i) No body wants to marry with a prostitute, though several persons like to enjoy with her.
ii) For a prostitute no room is found available in some village or some colony of a city. His near about, no person wants to see her.
iii) They are seen not capable for earning their livelihood through other businesses popular in societies.
But for a good society prostitution is curse. It should be removed by the socialization of prostitutes. They should be taught and trained so that they may be self dependents for earning their livelihood. The young persons should be inspired to marry with those prostitutes who want to have normal social life. If prostitutes are enjoyed illegally and unsocially, what sort of drawback lies in marrying and enjoying with them legally and socially. For being prostitutes, only they cannot be blamed. Even For Private & Personal Use Only
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