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Hazera requests the anti-sex work feminists to change their thinking agenda to abolish the sex
work profession through rehabilitating them by giving jobs with insufficient income. She
requests them to create lucrative opportunity for them and to work for them in achieving their
human rights from the society by staying in the same profession.
Hazera described about another stage of their movement that:
“I don’t want any child will come to this profession or any mother will send her daughter
to this profession. I don’t want to see them in this profession. I would like to see that the
children of sex workers would be educated and can mix with other people in the society.”
Here she clarified to the anti-sex work group that although they demand legality of their
profession, but they do not support child-prostitution and trafficking. The logic reflects the
standpoint of the sex workers movement activists in that they look for a practical approach
towards prostitution as a social problem and disagree with the idealistic approach of abolition of
prostitution.
We are serving the society:
“Actually, I should say, the feminists who say that the profession needs to be abolished, she
will understand her stand when two guys will drag her out from her house and will do sex
with her. She will understand then when her daughter can’t go to school. They will drag
her out and torture her. She will understand then why sex workers are necessary……Sex
workers are working as a big part of the society. Society is not looking at it in a good
way.”
Movement activist, Rehana makes the standpoint about the necessity of the sex workers in a
society. At the same time, her narration of a hypothetical society without sex workers conveys a
scary feature of male sexuality in our imagination. She noted that sex workers are necessary for
the society because it keeps sexual discipline in the society and saves the virginity of “good
women”. Her statement gives the argument that they are controlling sexual violence in the
society. Rehana supports the taken-for-granted knowledge of the society about necessity of
Convention