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Actress' kin push her into sex trade
The actress
had accused her parents of making attempts to force
her into prostitution. The story of up
and coming south Indian actress Preethi Varma
seems like a horror tale. The Chennai police
has filed a case against the parents of actress for
allegedly trying to push their daughter into flesh
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Indian sleaze saga: Sex, CDs and murder?
It began with a mysterious disappearance.
It turned into a political drama. And on Monday, the
Kavita Rani murder case acquired an even more
sensational hue, with Ravindra Pradhan, the prime
accused in her murder, claiming that she used to make
films of her sex acts with ministers, and senior
officers, to blackmail them.
31-12-2006
India's ask and tell policy
It may
sound like a strange battle cry but the world's
second-largest Army has trained its guns on an unlikely
enemy.
"We consider HIV our enemy No. 1," says
Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services,
Vice-Admiral V K Singh.
31-12-2006
India's real-X-action
From bedroom
to public eye, things are turning smutty in the land of
Kamasutra. Smutty magazines with vulgar pictures stashed
surreptitiously by the neighbourhood vendors are passé.
Today, easy access is the name of the game. Its multiple
manifestations aided by technology have hotted up the
scene. 31-12-2006
Casual sex increases Asia; spawning vulnerablity to HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS
constitutes a significant public health threat around
the world. By the end of 2006, almost 39.5 million
people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, and
unfortunately 90% of them are in developing countries.
26-11-2006
Porn in Taliban heartland
On the
television screen, the two naked young women writhe
together to the sounds of "Hotel California" as the
occasional crackle of gunfire punctuates the Afghan
night. 12-11-2006
India: Girl forced into flesh trade by mother for political gain
An 18-year-old girl
here on Friday accused her mother of forcing her into
prostitution and using her to fulfil her political
aspirations, police said.
12-11-2006
Sexual abuse rampant in Indian hospitals
Sexual harassment in hospitals, of women
doctors and nurses, seems to have become a common
practice in India. In a shocking study carried out by
international NGO Population Council, 77 of the 135
women doctors and nurses, working in four hospitals in
Kolkata, admitted sexual harassment.
8-11-2006
Indian men show mixed-up attitude to sex
For a group that has grown up in the land
of the Kama Sutra, most young Indian men are a
conservative - and often confused - lot when it comes to
sex, according a survey last week.
8-11-2006
Asian women doing it for themselves
It is not often that women, specially
Asian ladies are focus of the media. But that was
clearly the case this week.
5-11-2006
India: Sex workers set up co-op
Sex workers of Sonagachhi were never
allowed to open bank accounts. So, they set up their own
cooperative, and a good one at that.
30-10-2006
Traffickers turn to northeast India for sex trade
Human traffickers are increasingly
turning to India's poor and insurgency-wracked
northeastern states in their search for young girls to
work in big city brothels, police and activists say.
30-10-2006
Sex scandal rocks Kashmir
For
an area wracked for decades by terrorism, civil war,
invasion and life on the razor's edge between Pakistan
and India, the disputed region of Indian-occupied Jammu
and Kashmir ought to have enough trouble. But in recent
months the conservative area has been preoccupied by a
high-powered sex scandal involving government ministers,
business leaders and girls as young as 15 allegedly
forced into prostitution and pornography.
21-10-2006
Porn CD case: Anara seeks CBI probe
Anara Gupta, the former Miss Jammu,
today filed a writ petition in the High Court here
seeking CBI investigation into the much publicised porn
CD case, which was reopened again on the direction of a
lower court. 21-10-2006
Sex, CDs and mayor scandal hits Ludhiana
The arrest of a photojournalist in
Punjab's Ludhiana town following a blackmail complaint
by the mayor has blown the lid off a scandal that
involves not only unscrupulous sting operations, but
also VIPs allegedly caught in compromising positions on
CDs. 21-10-2006
Indian men don't play safe in sex
Lack of information about safe sex
have made most Indian heterosexual males who visit sex
workers seeking anal sex believe ignorantly that they
would not catch HIV/AIDS.
21-10-2006
Pakistan: Marginalised male sex workers vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
Under the illuminated
Minar-e-Pakistan, the towering monument that marks the
birth of the country, Pervaiz Din lays out the
accessories of his trade. The tiny bottles of massage
oil and aromatic colognes tinkle cheerfully as he pulls
them out of a cloth bag and sets them out on a tray.
Through much of the balmy September night, Pervaiz will
await customers who seek a soothing roadside massage, a
head rub - or something more.
24-9-2006
India: Dance bars facilitate prostitution
Dance bars in Mumbai have become
outlets for cheap sex, some even doubling up as
brothels. It is a switch that bar owners seem to have
accepted without too much reluctance.
24-9-2006
Leading Indians urge end of "monstrous" gay sex law
Leading Indian writers, artists,
lawyers and academics led by author Vikram Seth have
written an open letter urging the government to overturn
a British colonial era law that criminalises
homosexuality. 18-9-2006
India: Panel in quandry over legalising prostitution
Should prostitution be legalised?
This is the question that the parliamentary standing
committee studying amendments to the Immoral Traffic
(Prevention) Act (ITPA) is faced with.
18-9-2006
Pakistan: Musharraf caves in on rape law reform
In a setback for women's rights in
Pakistan, the ruling party in Islamabad has caved in to
religious conservatives by dropping its plans to reform
rape laws. 18-9-2006
India to ask young villagers to encourage safe sex
India plans to recruit one young man
and woman from every large village in the country to
over the next five years teach their peers about safe
sex and HIV. 18-9-2006
Kashmir grapples with growing AIDS
Jammu and Kashmir has a new problem
to contend with now - a sharp rise in HIV/AIDS cases.
While officials claim there are 745 such cases in the
insurgency-hit state, unofficial estimates peg the
number at 25,000. 18-9-2006
India an 'all-rounder' in sex trade
India has the dubious distinction of
being a sort of 'all-rounder' in the sex trade. It is
one of the very few countries in the globe that rank
high as origin, destination as well as transit points in
this murky business. 8-9-2006
Indian women fighting sexual harassment
A man on a New Delhi street has a
quick grope of a young British woman's breast before
running off. Were it not for the fact that she was the
daughter of a British diplomat, it's unlikely the event
would have even been reported to the police, let alone
made the news. 4-9-2006
India home for 60 percent of Asia's HIV cases
India is
home to nearly 60 per cent of the 5.5 million people afflicted with AIDs
in Asia, and with in the country, almost 70
per cent of the victims are concentrated in just eight states,
latest studies show. 31-8-2006
Police crack down on prostitution in Agra
More and more girls, some still
infants, are being groomed to become prostitutes in the
Taj Mahal city of Agra. But the police are determined to
end it all. 26-8-2006
Pornography keeping Pakistan cinema alive
New chairman of the Pakistan Censor
Board, Ejaz Ilahi Paracha has been told by his country s
film distributors and exhibitors that screening of
pornographic films was keeping the dying cinema houses
in Pakistan alive. 21-8-2006
Pakistan cracks down on groups duping women into prostitution
Pakistan's Federal
Investigation Agency has started taking stringent
measures against people involved in sending women to the
UAE to work in the sex industry.
21-8-2006
Anara Gupta porn-CD case reopens
Acting on a directive of the Jammu
and Kashmir High Court, the state government has
constituted a three-member Special Investigating Team to
probe the Anara Gupta porn-CD case afresh.
16-8-2006
Transient India sex trade threatens faster HIV pace
India's transient sex trade is one of
South Asia's biggest challenges in the fight against
HIV, with difficulties tracking sex workers and
customers, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.
16-8-2006
Sex workers adopt IT solutions to fight AIDS
If you think IT is only for the white
collar tech-savvy urbanites, think again. Marginalised
sex workers in Karnataka are now swiping their newly
acquired smart cards to avail themselves of discounts on
daily purchases while keeping a check on HIV/AIDS.
1-8-2006
The 'pink parlors' of Lhasa
Once a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage
destination, the Tibetan capital Lhasa is rapidly
turning into a hot spot of 'pink parlours' where flesh
trade thrives under China's modernisation drive, a US
couple says. 17-7-2006
Britain's Asian runaways
Rukhsana
(not her real name) is a very skinny and gaunt looking
teen who looks older than her 18 years, with bleached
brown hair, wearing grey contact lenses.
17-7-2006
Musharraf repeals extra marital sex law
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is
reported to have repealed an anti-women clause in the
Hudood law, a 1979 legislation against extra-marital sex
based on Islamic sharia (law). 17-7-2006
India: Where sex is not a taboo subject
"Is there
any way we can identify a homosexual?" This was a query
from a government school teacher to a doctor who was
explaining the nuances of sexual preferences and safe
sex. 5-7-2006
Prostitution growing in India, says survey
From poverty to erosion of values,
several factors are pushing more and more women and
young girls to take to prostitution all over India, says
a new study. 5-7-2006
India: Woman admits to maid's sexual abuse, murder
Lokhandwala housewife Roma Bhatia,
who has been arrested in connection with the suspected
rape and murder of a ten-year-old domestic helper,
confessed to the police on Thursday that she had
smothered the girl to death. 5-7-2006
Tamil Nadu's 'tsunami marriages'
Ambika - the sole survivor of a
family that perished in the December 2004 tsunami
disaster - of course claims she is 18 years of age,
while officials here explain the larger story behind the
bizarre 'tsunami marriage'. 28-6-2006
Porn CDs seized, Internet cafe owner held in India
In a
shocking incident, the city police found that a browsing
centre operator was allegedly videographing obscene
pictures of young college girls after giving them
intoxicating substances. 28-6-2006
UN helps Sri Lanka fight child sex tourism
Proclaiming a message of "zero
tolerance" for child sex tourism in Sri Lanka, the
United Nations is supporting a two-year action plan
launched by the country's tourist board to stop such
exploitation, targeting Visitors, children and
adolescents, hoteliers, journalists, families and
community leaders. 28-6-2006
India: Man kills sister for prostitution
A man
strangled his 18-year-old sister to death in a fit of
anger over her involvement in a prostitution racket and
then hid the body for two days in a West Bengal town.
11-6-2006
India: Sex workers seek changes in Immoral Traffic Act
Sex
workers in the country and activists working for their
welfare, have opposed the Centre's move to amend the
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, aimed at prohibiting
soliciting customers. 27-5-2006
India: Prostitution on the net
My name is Raksuda, 23. 5 ft 6 inch and 115 lbs (52 kg).
Measurement 34-26-34. I can set your bed on fire at the cost of 100 USD for an
hour. Raksuda is a
click-of-the-mouse away, thanks to prostitution on the
Internet. 19-5-2006
Sai Baba saved us from brothels
Nearly 2,000 bar girls from across
the city have left for Shirdi to thank Sai Baba for the
high court ruling that overturned the ban on dance bars
in Maharashtra. The bar girls say it kept them from
being forced to take up prostitution to survive. 7-5-2006
ULFA using Delhi sex workers for extortion
The outlawed United
Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has been using call
girls from Delhi as baits to extort and kidnap
businessmen in Assam to raise funds, police here said
this week. 7-5-2006
Cops take six hours to 'raid' Pakistani prostitution den?
The Mobina Town police have
arrested six women and three men from an alleged
prostitution den in Gulistan-e-Johar during a raid that
reportedly continued for more than six hours. 7-5-2006
Sex scandal: 'patronage strong, rot deeper'
A recently unearthed sex racket is
just a tip of the proverbial iceberg as there are dozens
of such rackets going on in Srinagar under the
"patronage of influential people," top police sources
disclosed. 7-5-2006
Kashmiris protest sex scandal, police fire teargas
Indian police fired
teargas shells to disperse hundreds of people
demonstrating in the streets of Kashmir's main city
Srinagar over an alleged prostitution ring involving
local politicians and officials. 7-5-2006
There's hope for kids of Delhi's red light area
Nischay, a
seven-year old boy from the capital's sleazy red light
area, wants to be rich and famous like Bollywood star
Shah Rukh Khan and get his ailing mother treated by the
world's best doctor. 7-5-2006
Kolkata sex workers seek recognition as labourers
The 'City of Joy', Kolkata, chimed
with the cry for justice on Monday as thousands of sex
workers holding torches and dressed in vibrant red,
marched through the city seeking recognition as
labourers on the occasion of World Labour Day. 7-5-2006
Sex racket rocks Srinagar
Two persons have been arrested and
the Jammu and Kashmir police is on the lookout for
another two involved in a major sex racket that has
rocked Srinagar. 7-5-2006
India: Dance girls and bar girls
Entry to the discotheques would
take a toll on your pocket in Goa. But to avoid this
spending, there is another trick which is being played
by the visitors in this tourist state. Take a girl along
with you and entry for couples is free. 27-4-2006
Heavy influx of bar girls from M'rashtra to Goa
Around 600 dance bar
girls are eking out a living in Goa following closure of
bars in Maharashtra last year, said Varsha Kale,
Honorary President of Bhartiya Bar Girls Union (BBGU),
even as Goa police denied presence of any such girl in
the state. 27-4-2006
Pakistan: Hijras caught in no man's land between two genders
Looking carefully at her reflection
in a shop window, Azra combs out her dark, somewhat
stringy hair. She then coyly flicks the lock back over
her shoulder, adjusts her red 'duppatta' (scarf), and
approaches two women shopping in Pakistan's western city
of Lahore. 23-4-2006
Maharashtra's dance bar girls see ray of hope
Sitting in her
one-room hole-in-the-wall flat of a ramshackle building
in a Mumbai suburb, former bar worker Ruby can't wait
for the day she can wear her colourful costumes once
again. 23-4-2006
Woman doctor nabbed for sex-determination test
A woman doctor in
Haryana was caught red-handed Wednesday after she
conducted a sex-determination test on a woman to
ascertain the sex of her unborn child. 23-4-2006
Friendship doesn't mean sex in India
Women in the city question why men
often interpret friendly gestures as a sign of
promiscuity. 20-4-2006
Punishing foeticide
Female foeticide has been a blot on
the patriarchal Asian society - a society that values
males and discriminates against the female sex. The
result has been a skewed, highly lopsided sex ratio in
parts of India and China. 5-4-2006
Bollywood: Mona Chopra nude MMS controversy
A controversy
started with the circulation of a two minute MMS clip,
which allegedly shows upcoming actress Mona Chopra
undressing. The clip allegedly shows a woman taking off
her clothes as she argues on the phone with someone from
the production unit over the choice of outfits she is
required to wear. 5-4-2006
Sex workers refuse rehabilitation, want to continue
Government's plans
for their rehabilitation notwithstanding, commercial sex
workers have refused to leave their "profession" saying
they are "happy" doing it and do not wish to exercise
"any other options". 29-3-2006
Is anybody listening?
Pregnant Indian women in the UK who
want to get rid of unwanted female foetuses are being
referred by unscrupulous British general practitioners
to a "mafia" of doctors in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and
Chennai, it was alleged this week. 25-3-2006
4000 sex workers stage protest march in Delhi
Demanding right to
dignified life, about 4000 sex workers, transgender and
sexual minorities staged a protest march in the capital
last week on the occasion of International Women's Day.
25-3-2006
India: Empowering teenagers - Sex not a taboo
It's very sad and
disheartening to note that, teenage boys are committing
rape, a sex crime, in their early and formative years.
It is even more shocking that as many as 7 such sex
related cases within a period of 45 days have occured in
the Dakshina Kannada district of India. 19-2-2006
Women more vulnerable to HIV infections
The view of poor and
developing countries is that women and adolescent girls
are more vulnerable to HIV infection on each sexual
encounter because of the biological nature of the
process and the vulnerability of the reproductive tract
tissues to the virus, especially in adolescent girls.
19-2-2006
Afghan parliament discuss prostitution
Senators of the
Afghan parliament Wednesday raised issues of
prostitution, using alcohols and deteriorating situation
in the country. 19-2-2006
Nepali girls trafficked for prostitution
From different areas
of Nepal, girls and women from various backgrounds
continue to be forced into prostitution. Girls are sold
either by their parents or brothers, of can be
trafficked as a result of a relative betraying the
family. 9-2-2006
India: Sexual harassment in the classroom
Stuti, a private
college student, Delhi, was embarrassed to reveal it.
"One of my lecturers called me up at around 10:30 at
night and spoke to me for about 15 minutes over the
phone, all the while asking suggestive questions. He
also asked for the phone numbers of other girls whom he
could call up." 9-2-2006
Dangers of porn in Karachi
With Muharram approaching, the
carnal desire of people in Karachi has come under
constraint as the local cable-wallahs have stopped
showing porn films. But, those addicted to it thought
that they could satiate their appetite for blue films by
watching them at a local cinema hall. 8-2-2006
India: A haven for child sex tourists
India is slowly
turning into a center for child-sex tourists, says a
path-breaking study, while calling for a global battle
against child sex. 8-2-2006
Pakistani, Indian girls being forced into prostitution in Middle East
In a startling case of organised
women trafficking that has come to light, Pakistani and
Indian girls aged between 11 and 13 are being smuggled
to the Middle East countries for being forced into
prostitution there. 8-2-2006
Bangladesh model for Muslim world to fight AIDS
Bangladesh can be a
role model for other Muslim nations in involving
religious leaders for creating awareness on taboos like
HIV and AIDS, Dr Nafis Sadik, special adviser to the UN
secretary general, said. 28-1-2006
India as haven for child sex tourism
Jameela (14) and Ashfaq (12) are
part-time cleaners of houseboats in Kerala's backwaters.
Their employer has told them they have to entertain
foreign guests in a "different" way. 25-1-2006
Asian Britons seek discount plastic surgery in Pakistan
A growing number of
well-educated, British-born Asian women in their 20s are
combining annual visits to relatives in Pakistan with
cut-price, nip-and-tuck operations, surgeons say. 25-1-2006
Nepal accused Of 'sexual cleansing'
An international
human rights organization has joined local LGBT
activists in accusing the government of Nepal of trying
to wipe out gays and transsexuals. 15-1-2006
India may have seen 10 million sex-selection abortions over last 20 years
A new study appearing in Britain's
premier medical journal The Lancet says as many as 10
million sex-selection abortions may have occurred in
India since ultrasounds were able to detect the gender
of an unborn child approximately 20 years ago. 15-1-2006
Once a bar girl, always a dancer
Last August, the state ordered all
dance bars shut across Maharashtra. It left thousands of
bar dancers jobless. Some resorted to prostitution, some
became waitresses at bars-and now some will enter the
fringes of big, bad Bollywood. 13-1-2006
Wife swapping is new buzzword in India
Wife swapping on Internet is the
new buzzword. More and more Delhi couples are logging on
to the World Wide Web to hunt for like-minded couples,
willing for multi-partner orgies. 13-1-2006
Gay prostitution on the rise in the City of Joy
As homosexuals and
bisexuals in India slowly come out of the closet, there
seems to be a rise in gay prostitution in Kolkata. 13-1-2006
Women's group to launch campaign against prostitution in Kashmir
The leader of Indian Kashmir's only
female separatist group said Tuesday that she planned to
launch a new campaign against prostitution, even though
her previous attempt landed her in prison. 13-1-2006
Woman denies being Joshi's video taped lover
A woman, whispered
to be disgraced saffron leader Sanjay Joshi's partner in
the sex CD, has come out of hiding to deny the
allegation. 9-1-2006
Mumbai bar raided, 45 held
Late Thursday night, the Andheri
police arrested 23 former bar dancers, who had allegedly
taken to prostitution, from an Andheri (East) bar. In
all, 45 persons-23 former bar dancers, the bar owner, 11
employees and 10 customers-were arrested at around 11
pm. 3-1-2006
India: 'Playboy is no fun without nude bunnies'
A toned-down Indian
cousin of the "infamous" Playboy is expected to hit
stands next year. It'll be a Playboy sans nudity. Now
what would that be like? Though according to the
magazine chief in the US, Christie Hefner, "The Indian
version won't contain nudity," to which male celebrities
echo in unison - "if it doesn't have nudity, it's not
Playboy." 2-1-2006
Sex and the CD: Sanjay Joshi's rise and fall
Sanjay Joshi is an
unusual man, He is in the spotlight for the sex CD
controversy that has hit the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the midst of the
latter's 25 year silver jubilee celebrations. 2-1-2006
Condoms fine, but is India ready for sex toys?
A recent survey
confirms the fact that there has been a growing
awareness among Indians about their sexual life and ways
to break the monotony. The usage of sex toys is one
among them. 29-12-2005
India: Blood, sex, sugar, magic
"My mother has been forcing me into
prostitution since April this year. She has also used
black magic and fed me with something that makes me
nauseous, to persuade me into doing all this," said
Renuka Patel, who is only 14 years old. 29-12-2005
India: MMS porn clip case, one held
A youth was nabbed on late Sunday
night for his alleged involvement in an MMS porn clip
case. Identified as Shoib Hanif Bhangarwala of Kosamba
town in the district, he was arrested under local
charges amounting to assualt, aiding in a crime, and
rape. 22-12-2005
Cyber porn: Net cafe owners steer clear in India
Owners of internet
cafes now have something new to grapple with, after
State home minister Siddhram Mhetre assured the upper
House of initiating steps to curb pornography in
internet cafes. 22-12-2005
9 held for prostitution in India
The Gandhigram police arrested
three women and six men, on Saturday, for alleged
involvement in a prostitution racket, being operated
from Yogeshwar apartment on University Road. 22-12-2005
Pakistan, Iran, Turkey to combat human trafficking
Pakistan, Iran and
Turkey have decided to form a joint working group to
bolster their cooperation against human trafficking, the
interior ministry officials said on Friday. The decision
was taken at a two-day meeting of the interior ministers
of the four countries held at Athens. 22-12-2005
India: Sex workers seek changes in anti-prostitution law
Asserting that they
were like any other labourer and got paid for their
services, a group of sex workers in the capital Friday
protested a proposed amendment to an anti-prostitution
law they say will hurt their livelihood. 12-12-2005
Why Indians are good at bad sex
This year not one (which would be
creditable enough) but two Indians have been shortlisted
by the Literary Review for "Britain's most dreaded
literary prize". 6-12-2005
Playboy exploring men's magazine for India
Playboy is in talks
to launch a men's magazine in India, but one that does
not include its trademark nudes or even its name, Chief
Executive Christie Hefner said on Thursday. 4-12-2005
Love costs Pakistani girl her legs
A man chopped his 20-year-old
sister's legs for marrying a villager of her choice in
Pakistan's Punjab province, a news report said on this
week. 4-12-2005
Mini-skirts, dating in Afghanistan
With a flawless face
and marble-smooth arms, a busty blonde mannequin dummy
displays a miniskirt in a boutique in Afghanistan`s
western city of Herat, where most women wear the
bag-like burqa. 1-12-2005
India: Subsidised, but HIV therapy only for rich
India may be a major
exporter of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs but barely
30,000 people are actually on medication in this country
which itself has a burden of five million HIV positive
cases. 1-12-2005
Love costs Pakistani girl her legs
A man chopped his 20-year-old
sister's legs for marrying a villager of her choice in
Pakistan's Punjab province, a news report said on
Sunday. 1-12-2005
India: Vexed about sex before marriage
The outrage against
actress Khushboo's remarks on premarital sex continues.
But is remaining a virgin till marriage such a big deal
these days?. 29-11-2005
For Nepal's cabin girls, survival is key
Every night, Kathmandu's dance and
cabin restaurants are flooded with men high on lust.
They bid the day goodbye with a young "cabin girl" in
one hand and a beer bottle in the other. 24-11-2005
Prostitution of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothels
The prostitution of Nepalese girls
aged between 12-18 years remains prevalent in brothels
in the Indian cities, according to a study by
Switzerland based Voluntary organization 'Terre des
hommes Foundation'. 23-11-2005
Lesbian couple rebel to live together in India
Same sex
relationships are still looked down upon in India, yet
there are a few who have the courage to rebel against
this societal prejudice even in a small place like
Chhindwada, a town in Madhya Pradesh. 9-11-2005
India: Double murder caused by sexual jealousy
The City police
today claimed to have worked out the sensational double
murder inside a temple here earlier this month with the
arrest of a teenager. 9-11-2005
India: Washroom sleaze hits porn market
The sleaze market in the region is
abuzz again. This time it is a pornographic CD featuring
a man and a woman presumably from Solan district that is
creating waves in the city, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.
The CD, available for Rs 2,000, is being sold under the
guise of a "call centre" video and is already a hit on
the pornographic circuit. 27-10-2005
Storm in Pushkar after expat bathes naked
Rajasthan's Pushkar town was
outraged after a woman from Finland bathed naked in the
holy lake. The tourist, identified only as Aerona,
apparently took a dip in the Pushkar lake on Saturday in
the nude and then chose to walk through the busy market
to her hotel, around 300 meters away, in the same
condition. 27-10-2005
Sexy, naughty, raunchy things
In looking at a recent book from
the west, one journalist cites it's usefullness in
giving Muslims, especially women, a look at women in the
west, as eastern culture is increasingly influenced and
pushed in that direction. 25-10-2005
Prostitution: Mumbai has spoken
Should prostitution be legalised?
This is the question that has been posed to the reader
of the Times of India. 25-10-2005
Beauty pageant crowns for sale in India
After a spate of beauty pageants
that were held in the city recently, several disgruntled
contestants have a similar tale to tell. They accuse
these pageants of being fixed to ensure that the girl
who pays the most money wins. 24-10-2005
Rise in sex workers a cause for worry in India
While Himachal
Pradesh remains a favourite tourist draw, a rise in the
number of sex workers at its resorts and the consequent
threat of HIV/AIDS are worrying officials. 19-10-2005
India: Where prostitution is a tradition
Life in the world's
oldest profession is a dreary one. And no one knows this
better than the womenfolk of Natpurwa where prostitution
is worshipped. This small village with a population of
1,200 is located in Hardoi district, 60 km from state
capital Lucknow. 18-10-2005
Planning panel in India sires a sex revolution
The contours of
sexual behaviour in the country may change radically if
the Planning Commission's recommendations to sharpen the
campaign against the spread of HIV/AIDS fructify. 18-10-2005
Hotel running prostitution racket destroyed in India
A hotel located at
New Checkon bazar under Porompat police station which
was allegedly involved in a prostitution racket was
attacked and dismantled by the womenfolk of the area
late Monday afternoon at around 3:30 pm. 18-10-2005
Desilicious - Sexuality in South Asia
Cue the collective groan of
displeasure. It's a known fact that Asians are sick and
tired of being sexually misrepresented from one extreme
of the sexual continuum to the other. 4-10-2005
Parlours raided for rubbing up the 'wrong' way
At least 17 people
were arrested in three separate raids on beauty and
massage parlours at Goregaon and Dahisar over the last
two days. All the parlours have been charged with
running prostitution rackets under the guise of beauty
and massage treatment. 14-10-2005
India's male sex workers breathe easy
From living in
seclusion and operating under fear of social ostracism,
community male sex workers offering services to males in
Kerala are today doing business with more ease. 11-10-2005
Afghanistan: Opium farmers sell daughters to cover debts to traffickers
Afghan farmers prevented from
growing poppies under a British-led eradication
programme have been forced to hand over their daughters
to drug traffickers to settle their debts, according to
reports from Afghanistan. 10-10-2005
Porn videos land Finn in Gurgaon jail
A Finn has been
arrested by Gurgaon Police for allegedly possessing
obscene and pornographic print and visual material and
creating a nuisance in his neighbourhood. 10-10-2005
Pakistan: 16 Muslims reportedly gang rape Christian girl
A 12-year-old Christian girl was
reportedly abducted and gang raped by 16 Muslim men in
Pakistan. The alleged offence occurred at Rawlpindi,
bordering Pakistans capital city of Islamabad. 5-10-2005
No sex please, we're Kashmiri
They sweep into bars
and smash wine bottles, invade brothels sending clients
fleeing out of windows and sneak-up on courting couples
urging them to desist in their "immoral"
activity. 5-10-2005
India's rape capital gets thrills, inspiration from rape porn
The target audience for the 'rape
and abuse' CDs is apparently huge. "We get all kinds of
buyers," says another Palika Bazaar shopkeeper. "Most
people are 14 to 15 years old. But then, we have older
customers too." 29-9-2005
Congrats, it's a baby girl
In a country where women are
worshipped as Goddess, it seems a tad ironic that they
are also deemed fit to be burnt for dowry or worse
still, killed even before they are born. 29-9-2005
India: The part-time lover?
Prostitution has moved out of the
city's red light domain and has acquired an up-market
and mobile character, thanks to some phoney model
coordinators and beauticians fixing up deals between
their prosperous clients in the city. 28-9-2005
Top Indian actress: Woman can indulge in pre-marital sex
A storm of protest with a strong
political undercurrent is brewing in Tamil Nadu over
yesteryear dream girl Khushboo's remarks on ''virginity'
and ''pre-marital sex.'' 28-9-2005
Actress' remarks on sex kicks up controversy
Kushboo apologises for remark on premarital sex
India: You may not kiss the bride
India may be the
land of the Kama Sutra, the ancient treatise on sex, but
public displays of affection remain strictly taboo in
the country's hinterlands, as an Israeli couple found
out. 24-9-2005
Porn games not illegal in India
Just when you
thought that the Mallika Sherawat MMSs and the XXX
movies hitting the shop shelves was all that parents had
to shield their children from, the porn threat has been
re-newed in the form of obscene and semi-porn video
games that are easily available in the market. 24-9-2005
Indian girl saved from prostitution racket
A 15-year-old dalit
girl from Kamptee near Nagpur was recently rescued from
prostitution in the capital. 24-9-2005
India: Arrests for watching pornography?
High drama took
place on late lat week one night at a home when the
landlord called the police and complained against his
tenant, a woman. The landlord alleged that the woman was
watching a pornographic movie with a man who was not her
husband. 15-9-2005
Indian organizations struggle to remedy frightening sex ratio
It is believed that the Chinese
kill over a million girls every year in order to have a
boy. It is also believed that Indians are about to
overtake the Chinese in a few years. With an alarmingly
adverse sex ratio of 933 women per thousand men, which
is the lowest in south Asia, Indians have gained
notoriety for selectively killing female fetuses. 13-9-2005
Paying for your crimes in India
Courts have
increasingly come to equate loss of modesty with
monetary compensation even as the culprit walks free.
They say money can buy most things in life. And if
you've got enough of it, it can even fund your freedom.
From judicial custody, that is. 9-9-2005
Pakistan: Women more confident in reporting sexual violence
The tale of Sonia Naz, the latest
case of alleged gang-rape to be widely publicised in
Pakistan, has left even the most hardened observer badly
shaken. 9-9-2005
Sex workers fight for Mumbai bar girls
Thousands of women
under Asia's biggest conglomerate of sex workers on
Thursday took to the street to protest Maharashtra
government's ban on dance bars girls. 7-9-2005
Love-struck Pakistani faces jail over terror hoax
A love-struck Pakistani faces up to
three years in jail for falsely accusing a brother and a
cousin of the woman he hoped to marry of planning a
suicide attack on the US consulate in Karachi, police
said on Monday. 7-9-2005
Pakistani girl flees 'kari' killing
Her nose is bandaged
from the bridge to the tip because, she says, her
husband and his relatives tried to cut it off. If they
catch her again, 15-year old Lakhmira is sure she'll be
killed. 6-9-2005
Kashmir women fight 'obscenity'
Eight veiled women
gather outside a shop selling alcohol on the ground
floor of a hotel in Srinagar, in Indian-administered
Kashmir and start ransacking it. 4-9-2005
Dirt poor treats girls better than filthy rich in India
The latest figures released by
Census 2001 dispel the belief that poverty is
responsible for gender-biased abortions and show that
the poor treat girls better than the rich. 3-9-2005
India: Call center employees caught in sex racket
Less than 100 metres
from the Karaya police station, 27-year-old Jason
Anthony had been running a sex racket for the last
one-and-a-half years, operating out of three rented
apartments on the second floor of a building on 11 Tarak
Dutta Road. 3-9-2005
India's 'Rebel Pornography'
Rebels in India's north-eastern
state of Tripura are making pornographic films to raise
money for their separatist campaign, officials say. The
information has come from surrendered guerrillas of the
National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), according
to police. 1-9-2005
All-women separatist squads raid brothels in Kashmir
A hard-line Islamic women's
separatist group said on Tuesday it had begun raiding
brothels in Kashmir to stamp out "adultery and the
flesh-trade." 1-9-2005
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