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Fig. 2:1 Sex workers waiting outside the quarter for a<br />

client. One worker holds a child in her arms while her<br />

other child stands beside her.<br />

“My husband was a rickshawala 27 but he started taking intoxicants and<br />

stopped working. I have to work thus for food<br />

and his drugs.”<br />

(Dutt in News Services, 2005)<br />

Entrapment of sex workers may be seen as a socio-cultural, economic, and physical<br />

phenomenon.<br />

the ‘family’ and the prostitute<br />

In conservative Indian society, there is rarely a place for poor, uneducated widows,<br />

abandoned by husbands or families. Similarly, in some parts of India girls are forced<br />

to enter prostitution because of family traditions, or in the name of religious<br />

traditions. Once the women are homeless without any financial support they become<br />

a very easy target for entrapment. In some villages young girls are forced to join the<br />

trade as a family custom and their family members (i.e. brothers and father) bring<br />

27 A man who pulls a small two or three wheeled cart designed to transport two or more passengers.<br />

25 25

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