In Nearly Collapsing Lanka, Makeshift Brothels Bloom as Women Shift to Prostitution for Food, Medicines
Kairi brown
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In Nearly Collapsing Lanka, Makeshift Brothels Bloom as Women Shift to Prostitution for Food, Medicines
Shaken under a large -scale economic crisis, women in Sri Lanka have been pushed to the walls with several people, especially those in the SMS industry, now shifting to prostitution as an alternative job of concerns being dismissed.
With the deteriorating textile sector to be worse in the almost collapse economy, emergency brothels grow in quantities, sometimes disguised as ayurvedic spa, hanging emergency rooms, and emergency beds to serve clients as women who are employed, until the end January this year this year, and emergency women to serve clients as women employed by women this year this year, and women this year this year this year, in the textile industry sell sex to survive.
We heard that we could lose our jobs because of the economic crisis in this country and the best solution we can see today is sexwork. Our monthly salary is around Rs 28,000, and the maximum that we can get is RS. 35,000 with time to time. But through being involved in sex work, we can produce more than the hospital. 15,000 per day. Not everyone will agree with me, but this is the truth, “a report in Sri Lanka every day quoting one of the sex workers like saying.
Apart from the latest report in the morning, the British telegraph also previously cited a surge of 30 percent in the number of women who joined the sex industry in the Sri Lanka capital since January this year, highlighting the strong women’s movement, which was previously employed in the textile industry, from interior to colombbo . Both reports have quoted Sri Lanka’s leading advocacy groups for sex workers – Lanka Standing Movement (Suml) – in this picture.
Executive Director Suml Ashila Dandeniya said that these women “desperate to support their children, parents or even their brothers”, added that sexwork was one of “very few professions left in Sri Lanka who offer a lot of fast money “.
The main contributor to the shift towards sex trade is a very high level of inflation that has reached wages in the textile industry hard. This, combined with acute lack of fuel, food and medicine, has encouraged these women to use prostitution.
The report also shows that due to the acute scarcity of important commodities, women are forced to exchange food, medicines for sex with local shop owners.
According to the report, the sex trading bloomed at a location as close as an industrial zone close to the Bandaranaike Colombo International Airport, which was allegedly under police protection and regulations.
Many women like that were forced to sleep with police personnel by brothels as a substitute for this protection, reports.
The report also mentioned that these women were forced to have insecure sex with client insistence, which ranged from academics to members of the mafia, because they had no other choice with work in agriculture also deteriorating.
