If you can make money with the application of your mind, why not your body? Anti-prostitution laws are a problem. In India, that is the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1986. Not only because this law criminalizes sex workers and pimps, but not the men who visit sex workers. But also because our Constitution grants us the right to practice our trade. So how come, sex workers, cant work? And how was this challenged in court?

For a general understanding of sex work in India, see Prabha Kotiswaran, 2011, Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India, Princeton University Press. More interested in Husna Bai? Have a look at Chapter 4, “The Case of the Honest Prostitute: Sex, Work, and Freedom in the Indian Constitution” in Rohit de, 2018, A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of law in the Indian Republic, Harvard University Press.
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