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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sex Workers Need to be Seen as Labour, Not Victims -Anita Tagore

Sex Workers Need to be Seen as Labour, Not Victims -Anita Tagore

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published Published on Jul 1, 2022   modified Modified on Jul 5, 2022

-TheWire.in

The re-conceptualisation of sex work as a form of sexual labour will increase sex workers’ accessibility to resources, mobilise them for representation and participation, and challenge social exclusion.

One of the most unsettling debates in contemporary India has been on sex markets and sex work.

Stemming from obscurantist sexual moorings of orthodoxy, the public impulse has been fragmentary. The premise underlying the internal contradiction is the delusive alienation of labour and sex.

There are three dominant paradigms to examine sex work. The first treats it as a deviant behaviour-anomie embedded in traditional stigma; the second considers it a quintessential type of gender relations subjected to oppression and violence against women; and the third focuses on the empowerment aspect of sexual commerce.

The historical evolution of the sex market is, according to historian Gerda Lerner, related to “its relationship to sexual regulation of all women in archaic states and its relationship to the enslavement of females”.

In ancient societies, poverty pushed women’s sexual labour to ruler’s wealth and status. Hidden legitimacy was founded on the necessary fulfilment of the sexual needs of men, particularly when heterosexist marriage was required to preserve women’s chastity. The origins of modern sex work are tied to the ascendancy of patriarchal kinship systems in which women were ritually exchanged as mere gifts among families.

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TheWire.in, 1 July, 2022, https://thewire.in/rights/sex-workers-need-to-be-seen-as-labour-not-victims


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