Tale Untold: Lived Experiences of Female Sex Workers

4 Pages Posted: 30 Aug 2019

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Nilanjana Mitra

Calcutta University, Department of Psychology, Students

Anindita Chaudhuri

University of Calcutta - Department of Psychology

Date Written: August 1, 2019

Abstract

Kolkata, located in the eastern part of India, is considered to have the largest concentration of sex-workers, residing either in multi-storey brothels or working as flying sex-workers. There is large number of studies on sex-workers, but they mostly concentrate on their reasons to enter into sex-work, HIV vulnerability, and its prevention programs and so on. A scarce literature is found on emotional upheaval and social marginalization faced by a sex-worker, especially when she is the victim of sex-trafficking. Thus, this study not only aims to portray the lived experiences of hurt, anguish, violence and coercion faced by the sex-workers but also how they have been able to retrieve the moments of strength and recast their experiences using the path of forgiveness.

Keywords: Sex-trafficking, sex-workers, forgiveness

Suggested Citation

Mitra, Nilanjana and Chaudhuri, Anindita, Tale Untold: Lived Experiences of Female Sex Workers (August 1, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3430168 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3430168

Nilanjana Mitra (Contact Author)

Calcutta University, Department of Psychology, Students ( email )

India

Anindita Chaudhuri

University of Calcutta - Department of Psychology ( email )

92, APC Road
Rajabazar
Kolkata, 700009
India

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