What are the main problems that women in prostitution are facing?
Please give us an idea of the scale of the problem, and its cause. Hunger and violence are the two immediate terrors that the women face everyday. The price of food has gone up but the income of the women has not. Very often the women skip meals are or are now reduced to taking only one meal a day. Sometimes, they forsake a meal on behalf of their children. Violence from buyers of prostituted sex is an everyday hazard from bottles being shoved inside vaginas to cigarette butts being stubbed out on their bodies to repeated rape and beatings. Rents have gone up in the inner cities where the red-light areas exist and women are being pushed out on the sidewalk by madams who sublet the brothels to migrant workers. Women face increased violence on the sidewalk from beatings, to snatching to rape. They dot have access to water or public toilets and so they scout the streets at night for a secret place. The women also face police brutality both inside and outside the brothels due to the increa
