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End Dry Toilets and Manual Scavenging
It is highly disconcerting that many NGOs, researchers, and reporters have made a habit of visually documenting the prevalence of manual cleaning of dry toilets in many parts of this country and then leaving with their “hard-hitting” images, videos, and interviews, without doing anything to pull those people out of… Read more.
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Openly Advertised Sex Markets in Delhi
As discussed in the previous post, Delhi is witnessing a spike in the number of establishments offering gay sex for a fee. Flesh markets like these are openly advertised across the web with impunity. E-invites like the ones shared below are widely shared by organisers and attendees alike. And yet,… Read more.
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Prevent Delhi From Becoming A Flesh Market
In the name of dark rooms, spa services, and gym-going “model” boys, Delhi is fast becoming an open flesh market under the guise of gay spas. There is nothing new about massage parlours in Delhi. Like many metropolitan cities, they have long existed here. In years gone by, they would… Read more.
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Abolishing Sex Work
There is a disturbing trend among gender and sexuality focused activists and scholars to extend arguments in defense of the rights of sex workers into a defense of sex work itself. While the former is necessary, the latter is unacceptable. Protecting the rights of sex workers while they are surviving… Read more.
