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Choice in the labour market – sex work as “work”

A blog post by Nivedita Menon on Kafila, 6 May 2011. The summary of preliminary findings of the first pan-India survey of sex-workers is now available on-line.  3000 women from 14 states and 1 UT were surveyed, all of them from outside collectivised/organised and therefore politically active spaces, precisely  “in order to bring forth the voices of a hitherto silent section of sex workers.” The significant finding is this: About 71 percent of them said they had entered the profession willingly. (The data on male and transgender sex workers has not been processed yet). The study was conducted by Rohini Sahni

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