The issue of sexwork and sexuality in India needs multidirectional investigations. This is a note about its past, present and future in the light of some socialist understanding of the same.
Prostitutes working on the edge of the city in East London have recently been subject to a concerted campaign of abuse from the police, the local press and vigilantes. Some of the women are as young as thirteen, many are care leavers and work to support drug habits. Police harassment of prostitutes is nothing new, and the women believe that the latest round of arrests were made in revenge for the arrests of local…
