REFORMING SEX WORK IN INDIA THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH AND JUDICIAL INTERVENTION
Abstract
It sounds so odious to call woman a prostitute, as it is a term used only withthe intent of judging the character and
adding insult on the other hand.A sexworker is a provider of commercial sexual services. Although, the
term‘prostitution’ and sex work are synonym, it is the hair-line difference thatmatters the most. According to Merriam
Webster, the term ‘prostitution’ is the actor practice of engaging in promiscuous sexual inter course with strangers for
money but sex worker is a wide termencircling glamourmodels, web-cam workers, tele-sex operators, pornstars,
strippers, sensual masseuse and burlesquedancersetc.
With this, one can effortlessly understand that sex work refers to thosepeople who have voluntarily givenassent to join
the sex industry without any force where as prostitutionisatermusedtohighlighttheeviloftraffickinganditis
mostlytheoutcome offorcedsexualexploitation.