Article: Progress toward an open discussion of sexuality in India and Asia.(Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life, Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia)(Book review)

Article: Nag, Moni. Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life.(Book review)
International Social Science Review;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Nag, Moni. Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice...An estimated 71,000 of India's 2.9 million sex workers were infected, only a...rates vary dramatically in India, with the prevalence among sex workers in Mumbai having been...

Article: 'I never want to be rescued again': Melissa Ditmore argues that some anti-trafficking responses are making conditions more dangerous for voluntary sex workers.
New Internationalist;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......prevent trafficking are doing harm to sex workers. A common casualty is women's mobility...increased risk of abuse. Migrants, including sex workers, who experience abuse have little recourse...these brothel raids frequently hurt the sex workers they purport to assist. In Bangladesh...

Article: Judd Promotes Women's Rights in India
AP Online;  March 12, 2007 ;     235 words ...MUMBAI, India - Helping women to understand their...organization, during her weeklong visit to India to promote awareness about HIV/AIDS. She met sex workers in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital...estimate there are at least 10,000 sex workers in Mumbai, ...

Article: Rough and tumble: sex workers unite in Calcutta.
New Internationalist;  May 1, 1998 ;     396 words ...A group of male sex workers has come out into the open...the first time in Calcutta, India. `Our situation is worse than that of female sex workers because society doesn't accept...than 3,000 participants from India and abroad. Male sex workers...

Article: Determinants of Safer-Sex Behaviors of Brothel Female Commercial Sex Workers in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The Journal of Sex Research;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......transmission in Indonesia, female commercial sex workers constitute one of the communities at...among brothel and nonbrothel female sex workers in Jakarta repeatedly showed high prevalence...Jakarta, 1994). These are indications that sex workers in Jakarta practice unsafe sex ...

Article: Sex workers with attitude: shock. Outrage. Middle-class morality suitably scandalized. The reactions were predictable. Even Mari Marcel Thekaekara wasn't quite sure what to expect from a co-operative of sex workers--and in communist kolkata (Calcutta) of all places, where co-ops are usually of the party, for the party and by the party. Then she went to find out for herself.(Women)
New Internationalist;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......control. There are 60,000 women sex workers who are part of the Durbar...especially in the context of India--a hypocritical society not...practice. With thousands of sex workers, it's a buyers' market. The...Prostitution is illegal in India under the Prevention of Immoral...

Article: Study unearths reality of sex trade in India: low-caste, poor women lured into prostitution. (World).
National Catholic Reporter;  November 1, 2002 ;     546 words ......Andhra Pradesh into the sex trade, according to a...It further showed that sex workers in all major Indian cities...revealed that 80 percent of sex workers ages 12 to 35 in the tourist...course on issues related to sex workers. Getting into brothels...working for the rights of ...

Article: Interview with Indian community welfare organization on confronting HIV and AIDS in south India.(Making Waves)(human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
New Internationalist;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......this includes sex workers and homosexuals...awareness campaigns in India. Hariharan says...by using former sex workers to infiltrate India's underground sex...inform current sex workers about HIV/AIDS...by saying that sex workers don't exist.' ...

Article: Hepatitis B infection, Eastern India.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  July 1, 2004 ;     671 words ......brothel-based commercial sex workers. These study participants...eastern states of India. Routine immunization...not a practice in India, and chronic HBV...makes commercial sex workers more vulnerable...among commercial sex workers (23.3%) is of concern...infected with ...

Article: Sexual History of a Sample of Male Sex Workers in Spain.(Section III: HIV and STI Prevention and Care)
The Journal of Sex Research;  February 1, 2006 ;     260 words ...Sexual History of a Sample of Male Sex Workers in Spain, Rafael Ballester, Universitat...out with a Spanish sample of 40 male sex workers who advertised their services in the...Prostitution by Ballester and Gil. Half of the sex workers started to masturbate at 12-13 and 40...

Article: Responding to men's sexual concerns: research and intervention in slum communities in Mumbai, India.
International Journal of Men's Health;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......programs in urban poor communities in Mumbai (Bombay), India. The intervention approach consists of community-level...STD risk reduction in slum communities in Mumbai, India. The concern about men's sexual health and the health...spread of HIV/AIDS and increasing rates of STDs in India. It is now ...

Article: INDIA'S INVISIBLE POISON.
Contemporary Review;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......by 'worst', but it could be India. It may not have the highest...And many of the patterns of India's unique way of life are the...further over the peak, but in India the figure of the infected...or say it is confined to 'sex workers' and lorry drivers. It is...reporting a 'TB epidemic ...

Article: Sex workers offered SWEET support.
Batley News (Batley, England);  May 31, 2006 ;     377 words ...OFF-street sex workers in Batley and Birstall are being offered...because it is more hidden. Off-street sex workers often view the work as safer and rotate...Huddersfield, works with 30 to 50 sex workers at any one time. It has more than...

Article: SEX WORKERS HELP FIGHT SLAVE TRADE.
Fenland Citizen (Wisbech, England);  August 21, 2007 ;     360 words ...SEX workers, including those operating in Fenland...trade in Cambridgeshire. The established sex workers have told police working on Operation...Radium. The telephone calls from the sex workers are among other calls from members of...