Should Prostitution be legalised or decriminalised?

Will legalising prostitution, an issue raised by the Supreme Court, end the exploitation of thousands of women pushed into the flesh trade and help curb the spread of HIV or would it be better to decriminalise it?

On Wednesday, Justices Dalveer Bhandari and A.K. Patnaik of the apex court told Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam on the matter of prstitution that "when you say it is the world's oldest profession and when you are not able to curb it by laws, why don't you legalize it? You can then monitor the trade, rehabilitate and provide medical aid to those involved."

Kerala Education and Culture Minister M.A. Baby said there are countries that have legalized the world's oldest profession "but in a place like ours which has a rich cultural ethos, this certainly cannot happen".

"In order to tackle HIV, basic education has to be provided to all with special emphasis on adult education at the Plus 2 levels. The present employment guarantee scheme should also be spread across the length and breadth of the country. Child marriages should not take place and land reforms should be undertaken," Baby told IANS.

S.K. Harikumar, behavior physician and a leading consultant in HIV/AIDS, said that legalizing and decriminialisation are two different issues.

"As far as I see this, decriminalization of multi-partner sex among both males and females should take place. This should no longer be a criminal act. The right to privacy in sexual acts, urges and desires should be vested with the individual. Legalising this will in no way guarantee anything," Harikumar said.

According to the latest figures, Harikumar said there are more than 55,000 prostitutes in Kerala and the pattern over the years is that it has been showing consistent growth.

Fr Paul Thelakat, spokesperson of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala, said there is no guarantee that HIV can be eradicated by legalizing prostitution but would instead aggravate it.

"We are living in a world where man and woman are equal with full dignity of a son and daughter of god. A nation must engage in greater efforts to help free women from the abuses against human dignity that result from prostitution. The state must not make prostitution a form of employment but provide other dignified employment opportunities," Thelakat told IANS.

Nalini Jameela, 56, who has been a sex worker since 1978, is in the news because of her Malayalam book, translated into English as "Autobiography of a Sex Worker", which sold 13,000 copies within 100 days of its release in 2004 and went through six editions.

Attending a conclave of sex workers in Bangalore, Jameela said she has to literally fight every day against the stigma attached to her profession. "We have done our best to be part of various other mainstream groups, but we are still stigmatised," lamented the author and sex workers' rights activist.

Nalini feels the biggest battle for her community is to make the profession legal. "Once our profession is legalised, nobody can harass us," Nalini told IANS.

"On one hand, police use force and violence against us. Society also discriminates against us because of our profession. All this violence and discrimination will end once our profession is legalised," she said.

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Gyaneshwar Patil unnatural sexual harassment attempt challenged

Gyaneshwar Patil unnatural sexual harassment attempt challenged

The Madhya Pradesh High Court asked the State Chief Secretary to reply why the accused, former IAS officer and suspended Zila Panchayat Bhopal chief executive officer Gyaneshwar Patil was reinstated and promoted with posting of Member, Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA), involved in unnatural sexual attempt on a Panchayat Secretary, under his jurisdiction, and attempts were on to withdraw the criminal case, in which the victim was harassed and tortured and the state police failed to take action against the main accused since, last six months, as per criminal case registered against Patil, on a petition.

The single bench of Justice Ajeet Singh, while hearing the petition of Village Panchayat Sikandarabad, Secretary Satish Chouksey, in Bhopal District, seeking court directives for high level probe against the Bhopal, Police Authorities, General Administration Department Secretary, Chief Secretary and others for their involvement of saving the accused Gyaneshwar Patil an IAS officer, posted as the CEO of Zila Panchayat Bhopal, from the crimial charges, as registered for the crime under section 377 of IPC, and was suspended under the intervention by the state Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan, admitted the same, and issued notices to state government.

The court also directed to issue notices to Rakesh Sahni, chief Secretary , Secretariat panchayat department, Superintendent of Police Bhopal(SP), Collector,(BPL), NVDA, Secretary General Administration Dept, accused of sodomy and criminal case registered with Shyamala hill and asked police to file their reply within one week. The court has fixed the date of hearing on 13 November 2009.

Petitioners counsel N K Rahore, submitted before the court that IAS officer Gyaneshwar Patil was posted as the CEO, Zila Panchayat Bhopal in May and on June 18, 2009 and called the petitioner and Panchayat secretary to his official residence of Shyamla Hills, with JNRM Scheme construction work and taken serious note objection on it and threatened the Secretary petitioner Chouksey (PSC), for the consequences of suspension, for which the PSC tendered apology to which the Zila Panchayat CEO, asked him to remove cloths and cooperate him for illegal sex, to which the petitioner refused, and was the victim of the sexual attempt made by Mr Patil, and harassment and physical abuse to which Satish restrained and managed to reach the police station after midnight. The counsel contended that though the entire scenario was recorded under the sting operation by a local channel, looking to the activity of the accused Gyaneshwar Patil and his past habit to call the subordinate employees and harass them physically with torture and threat, and the same was shown on local channels on next date of registering the criminal case against the said suspended IAS officer Patil, on June 18, 2009.

He informed that inspite of the serious crime of sodomy committed by Patil, the police failed to arrest the accused as the entire episode was shown on television channels of Bhopal and on next date of release seen by the state Chief Minister Shiv Raj Chouhan he, intervened in the matter and suspended Patil, also removed his posting from Bhopal Zila Panchayat. Mr Rathore informed that inspite of the demand made by the political parties of Bhopal against the state BJP and Chief Minister Chouhan leveling the allegation of support to Patil, CM again intervened in the matter and in order to save the image of the state BJP in this sodomy matter, directed the PHQ to take the action in the FIR registered against suspended IAS officer Patil, registered on the night of June 17,18,2009 and the cassette of the episode was with the DGP of the state, but inspite of the State CM orders the PHQ failed o take any action against the suspended IAS Patil, and also investigate the matter properly, and since last six months the petitioner is facing the threat harassment, and torture with other political parties putting pressure to withdraw the criminal; case of sexual harassment against the suspended IAS, Patil which are illegal and arbitrary.

The Petitioner challenged the reinstatement of the said suspended IAS officer, Patil by the General administration department which needs the approval and can be done only by the recommendation of Chief Minister and the Union Home Minister.

The petitioner prayed high level probe in the matter of PHQ inaction for investigation against the suspended IAS accused Patil, and promotion of a criminal charges facing officer as the Member of NVDA, and orders for protection and his safety, from the threat he was facing from various corners of political side, inspite of state CM orders.

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Mob Beats Gay Man to Death in His Own Home ????

A disturbing story from Karachi, Pakistan - 60-year-old Mohammad Hashim Jhokio was beaten to death by an angry mob after they burst in to his home and allegedly caught him with another man:
"The deceased was a watchman by profession and had been married for the last 25-30 years without any children. Police officials further said that the deceased was living separately in the village and was abhorred by his fellow villagers for being a homosexual. They said a group of angry people raided his house where he was indulged in an obscene activity with a man and killed him on the spot by hitting him with clubs and rods. Police officials said that apparently it was a case of ‘vigilante justice’ as people were enraged over the sexual behaviour of the deceased Jhokio. However, there were no details available about the other person who was present with the deceased when he was beaten to death."

1. This is a common occurrence for that part of the world. It's dominated by one of the most repressive, primitive barbaric religions in the world (islam--all abrahamic religions are, of course, primitive but Islam is definitely more of a threat to the stability of geopolitics right now), coupled with an almost universal lack of education and crushing poverty. None of this is an excuse, of course--merely an explanation.
   
   

'Sec 377 should'vebeen applied'

AGPUR: P K Sathianathan, former district government pleader and public prosecutor, said that the police should have immediately slapped Section
377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Avinash Janvey. "Once there is a specific allegation and there is a prima facie case, police should not dither in applying the relevant sections.

Instead of trying to avoid the hassle of deleting the sections at a later stage, police should get the case medically approved. Instead of waiting for the medical report to arrive, just apply Section 511 of Indian Penal Code too. This section is applied to cases where at least an attempt was made even if the actual was not committed," said Sathianathan exposing the lacuna in police action.

According to a social worker, police should not take the offences related to minor and sex offences lightly. "The eagerness the cops show at naka-bandis should be channelised into conducting proper investigations into sensitive cases like this one," said he.

Section377 Ecourage to SAY ??? 'My son is GADU , I'm proud to be His/GANDU,s Mom'

Section377 Ecourage to SAY ??? '
My son is GADU , 

I'm proud to be His or ( Gandu )  Mom'

confidences and charted the way ahead
On October 23, Tarun Gupta (name changed) gathered  courage and told his mom a secret he liked men.
Eight days later, Mrs Gupta and her son were among 130 participants at the Gay ( Gandu ) Bombay Parents' and relatives' meet.
The meet organised at Liquid Lounge, Charni Road, which saw one of the largest gatherings of parents and relatives of homosexuals in the city, went on for three hours last afternoon.
In fact, another first at the meeting was the venue a lounge bar a departure from the usual house meetings.

 
Not gossip anymore
"Ever since the issue of Article 377 came up, it has reached dining rooms in the form of news, not gossip. Everyone has become more aware about the issue.
The rise in the figures at the meeting today can be credited to the media," said Harish Iyer, an event organiser, who is openly ( Gandu ) gay.
There were few parents like Mrs Gupta, who immediately accepted their son's sexual bend, but there were as many, who first tried other methods to mend their son's gay 'tendencies'.
One such parent Mrs Shah (name changed) took her son to an astrologer, then to a sexologist and finally to a psychiatrist.
The astrologer said my son would become straight by mid 2006 and asked him to visit a devi temple every Thursday
The others told me I could change my son's ( Gandu ) mindset. Finally, I realised nothing worked and accepted him the way he is," she said.
Sobha Doshi's son Shammit told her he was ( Gandu ) gay over the phone from Atlanta nearly three years ago. "I caught the next flight and went to meet my son ( Gandu )  and his boyfriend. It was fine," she beamed.
'It's not a crime'
Doshi, a cancer survivor, meets parents to make them realise  that being gay ( Gandu ) is not a crime or a hormonal disorder. "One just needs to accept things.
I could fight my cancer because I accepted it and the same held true for my son. I accepted him the way he was and today we are happy.
I visit my son and stay with him and his boyfriend in the US for as long as six months at a stretch."
The only concern parents have is of the future. "I want my son( Gandu )  to be in a steady relationship, so that he will have a companion and can live his days happily," said a mother.
Another parent added, "I want a partner for my son ( Gandu ) . And I would search for him the way I would for a daughter-in-law."
In a touching moment of reaffirmation, a sister said she would only marry a guy who accepted her gay ( Gandu ) brother.
Up Ahead...
The parents and the organisers have also decided to form a forum to support the cause of Section 377 by writing letters, which will be presented to the Supreme Court.
Virkam Dcotor, founder of Gay ( Gandu ) Bombay and the organiser of the event, said, "Parents' unity will certainly help the community and quite clearly, the overwhelming response, brings us hope."
Article 377
The Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code upheld that unnatural sex was a crime. However, on July 2, 2009 the Delhi High Court read down the article.
This meant that consensual sex among adults was no longer a crime.
The lesbian ( Gandu ) , gay ( Gandu ) , bisexual ( Gandu ) and transgender ( Gandu ) community celebrated the day as their new Independence Day.
However, nearly 14 religious and other fundamentalist groups filed their petition against the verdict and the case is with Supreme Court now.
Did you know?
Indian laws do not allow the adoption of a child by a gay or lesbian couple