(Dr. Pravin Patkar responds to ‘The police start arresting customers of sex workers’ - Pages 4 & 5 of Mumbai Mirror of 24 July 2015 )
It is perfectly legal in India for a woman or a man to sell her or his bodily sex to another adult man or woman respectively, against money. It is also legal for an adult man or woman to buy bodily sex from a heterosexual person.
But no freedom is absolute. There are always limitations borne out of the competing rights of civil society and other individuals.
The state and the civil society in India are deeply concerned about the enslavement of vulnerable children and women in the organized sector via the route of human trafficking. The Indian law is against the organised sex trade.
