Prostitution in India
Overview of the legality and practice of prostitution in India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Prostitution is legal in India,[1] but a number of related activities including soliciting, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel,[2] child prostitution, pimping and pandering[3] are illegal.[4][5] There are, however, many brothels illegally operating in Indian cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, and Nagpur, among others.[6][7][8] UNAIDS estimate there were 657,829 prostitutes in the country as of 2016.[9] Other unofficial estimates have calculated India has roughly 3 million prostitutes.[10][11] India is widely regarded as having one of the world's largest commercial sex industry.[12][13][14][15] It has emerged as a global hub of sex tourism, attracting sex tourists from wealthy countries.[15][13][16][17] The sex industry in India is a multi-billion dollar one, and one of the fastest growing.[18][19][20]