Shafiq Ur Rahman Khan

Paro or Molki is a ‘women who is purchased for a few bucks’, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The glossary of abusive words has increased with a new entrant, ‘paro’. The word ‘paro’ is well known in regions like Haryana, Punjab, western Uttar Pardesh and Rajasthan, though all abusive words have always been identical to derogatory attitude of men towards women, this is also of this sort and it means, ‘women who is purchased for a few bucks’, ‘paro’ are those girls who are bought and brought from eastern Uttar Pardesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bengal to compensate less women and produce children. She is not a prostitute in open terms neither a keep, but in a place where levirate (where after death of a husband his younger brother takes his place or in his life too his younger brothers can make sexual relations with the same women) is so evident even today, that at what extent it is suitable to call her a ‘wife’? And ev...

PROSTITUTION IN INDIA Shafiqur Rahman Khan srkhan83@yahoo.co.in 1. Meaning of Prostitution: Prostitution refers to the practice of exchanging sexual services for financial remuneration. The practice has been reported in virtually every culture and described throughout recorded history. As a from of deviance, prostitution has been of interest to sociologists as a reflection of various social processes and phenomena [1] . Sociologists have studied prostitution as a form of sexual deviance and a reflection of the basic values, norms, and institutions within a society. Sociological studies of prostitution have been concerned with the function it serves in a society, the gender inequality and double standard implicit in the practice, and the social dynamics involved in becoming a prostitute. Prostitution represents a form of sexual de...