Can I know is visiting prostitution is legal or not in India?!

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      Fiercelion5743
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        April 27, 2025 at 5:37 am
        In a hotel room when both are major and one is a normal guy and girl is a prostitute.

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          April 27, 2025 at 5:39 am
          Legal if no pimp involved.

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              April 27, 2025 at 6:11 am
              Pimp ? Pimped named slick back

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              April 27, 2025 at 5:40 am
              Legal until caught 💀

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                  April 27, 2025 at 6:29 am
                  Its not even if you get caught. Its out of desperation and social shame that ppl sheel out money to pilice offcers.

                  They can not charge you under obscenity act until you are doing it behind closed door. But yes a lot of guilt tripping and societal judgement will ensue as ppl start looking at you like a perv or sex offender.

                  So public shame is something that makes most to pay up to police for a safe route

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                  April 27, 2025 at 5:41 am
                  Prostitution is legal in India. Pimping is illegal.

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                      April 27, 2025 at 6:09 am
                      pimping mtlb?

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                          April 27, 2025 at 6:10 am
                          Dalaali

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                            managing prostitutes, taking cut from their earnings.

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                                April 27, 2025 at 6:14 am
                                ok, thanks

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                                  April 27, 2025 at 8:42 am
                                  If chicks put themselves on street themselves,then no one can disturb them? Even if they take guy with them or charge them etc

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                                      April 27, 2025 at 1:21 pm
                                      Prostitution isn’t illegal but solicitation is. So what that means you can technically sell sex but you can’t actively look for (i.e. solicit) clients on the street or in public or advertise your services in a public place.

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                                          April 27, 2025 at 1:24 pm
                                          🤨 so….
                                          I didnt get it

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                                              April 27, 2025 at 1:33 pm
                                              If you are a prostitute then you can sell your services but you can’t actively advertise them or go out on the street looking for clients, telling them what you do. Discretion is the key. And if you are a client, you are technically not allowed to go on the street and ask people if they offer any sort of services. It’s a whole lot of grey area, contradictions and intensionally confusing laws.

                                              The point of all this is to essentially protect the workers from being charged with a crime and to prevent their exploitation but at the same time discouraging the acts themselves because they are considered “immoral” by the governments. How successful these are is a different matter altogether. That said India isn’t the only country with this kind of laws.

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                                                  April 27, 2025 at 1:34 pm
                                                  Pretty sure other such countries are also 3rd world,corrupt and has this in such grey area to exploit people looking for it.

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                                                      April 27, 2025 at 2:00 pm
                                                      I wouldn’t call most of the Scandinavian or western European countries, New Zealand, Australia, or Canada third world countries. Of course, exact laws vary but the goal behind them all is the same. The issue is obviously not the policy but the politics and the enforcement. Most of those countries have extremely strict laws, human rights protections, and health and safety laws that must be followed but the public solicitation thing is still illegal, others are more regulated. Just to be clear, in most cases public solicitation means exactly that, soliciting in public on a public street or at a public place.

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                                                          April 27, 2025 at 2:02 pm
                                                          Cool,this law makes no sense here as other things like police laws,human rights protection etc are very lenient so this should’ve been stripped as its keeping people confuse and idk,every other day people ask about it then post they got looted or harassed or police blackmailed them lol

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                                                            April 27, 2025 at 2:10 pm
                                                            Just to be clear, I don’t think there’s any law that explicitly says that prostitution is legal. The only reason it is considered legal, including by the Supreme Court, is because there’s no law banning it. Solicitation and brothels are actually made illegal by law. So that might be part of the problem.

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                                              April 27, 2025 at 6:25 am
                                              Prostitution is legal but soliciting it is in illegal.

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                                              April 27, 2025 at 5:42 am
                                              Even if it’s legal it’s still exploitation

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                                                  April 27, 2025 at 6:04 am
                                                  This.

                                                  Speaking from first hand experience on the exploitation they go through. Get in touch with a NGO working for betterment of trafficed women. You will know.

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                                                      April 27, 2025 at 6:30 am
                                                      Its depends free lancers dont but those in a brothel does. Again its very subjective as moraloty has never been an umberalla or objective concept and will never be

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                                                          April 27, 2025 at 6:41 am
                                                          No bro

                                                          That’s just an illusion.

                                                          Talk with an ngo who works in betterment and provides new life to prostitutes.

                                                          You will understand it completely.

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                                                              April 27, 2025 at 7:11 am
                                                              I am not saying it does not exist but not all are a part of human trafficking

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                                                                  April 27, 2025 at 7:44 am
                                                                  So you are focusing on 10%

                                                                  Got it

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                                                                      April 27, 2025 at 8:00 am
                                                                      How you know its 10 percent? And ngos are the biggest catalyst of human traffickeing across the globe do you know that

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                                                                          April 27, 2025 at 8:02 am
                                                                          No I don’t know that. Maybe you can inform everyone about it

                                                                          As for 10% it’s just a random number. Or you want to convey that 90% of women do prostitution knowingly without getting trafficed.

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                                                                              April 27, 2025 at 8:08 am
                                                                              Just think ot logically? Prostitution is legal right? If something is legal why would I do it in a way that makes it illegal. That does not means human trafficking does not exist in it. It does but most of these women are either vulnerable or sole bread winners of families or are brainwashed girls wanted to lead a ruch live even if its short lived

                                                                              Why do you need to work when u can earn just by stripping over a phone call or in a room

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                                                                                  April 27, 2025 at 8:10 am
                                                                                  Then what is stopping you to do it?

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                                                                                    April 27, 2025 at 8:23 am
                                                                                    Excuse me i did not ask this question in the first place

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                                                                                      April 27, 2025 at 8:31 am
                                                                                      I don’t know, you sounded like everyone is doing it. So wanted to check if you are also doing it.

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                                                                                        April 27, 2025 at 9:35 am
                                                                                        Yeah its pretty common . I dont know where r u from but spa and massage centres are sprawling everywhere what do u think happens there?

                                                                                        And most of these shabby hotels and b&b in pharganj and mahipalpur are epicentres of sex businesses ir illegal brothels.

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                                                                        April 27, 2025 at 5:54 am
                                                                        Bro why? you will get infected with something

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                                                                            April 27, 2025 at 6:11 am
                                                                            Definitely Higher chance

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                                                                              April 27, 2025 at 6:26 am
                                                                              Naahh…till you have confom. And most these escorts r safe except if go to a shabby brothel in the most unkempt part of delhi loke gb road.

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                                                                                  April 27, 2025 at 7:44 am
                                                                                  Condom breaks, specially if you are uncircumcised

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                                                                                      April 27, 2025 at 7:47 am
                                                                                      It can but only in rare cases there r unbreakable condoms too in the market you can take them along with you and ask that u will use only those

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                                                                                        April 27, 2025 at 7:48 am
                                                                                        And my faith on a piece of rubber holds more logic than having faith in the imaginary gid. Woh toh pukka kuch nahin karne wala😂😂😂

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                                                                                          April 30, 2025 at 11:01 pm
                                                                                          Only cheap condom breaks.

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                                                                                          April 27, 2025 at 8:03 am
                                                                                          Exactly.
                                                                                          I heard in office someone shared
                                                                                          These days we can’t trust any girls.
                                                                                          Normal looking office girls are working as prostitutes, IT engineers, flight attendants.

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                                                                                              April 27, 2025 at 8:05 am
                                                                                              I know a handful of them working as escort from well to do families. There is diff betwen a prostitute and an escort.

                                                                                              Prostitution comes under legal ambit escorting does not and thats why its done secretly in a massage parlour spas etc

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                                                                                              April 27, 2025 at 9:38 am
                                                                                              Jokes apart i even had a bbb sex with a massage girl does not contracted anything. Luckily she only had sex with me in her whole tenure here. But its better to be safe than sorry

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                                                                                                  And I’m the prince of Denmark.

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                                                                                              April 27, 2025 at 6:03 am
                                                                                              Solicitation and pimping is illegal. Solicitation basically means advertising sex in exchange for money, and includes online ads or propositioning on the streets.

                                                                                              Exchanging sex for money privately isn’t illegal.

                                                                                              Additionally, paying for sex using UPI may count as a violation of a bank or platform’s terms and conditions. The way I understand it is it doesn’t necessarily violate UPI’s terms and conditions, but it may violate, say, Google Pay or your bank’s UPI app T&Cs.

                                                                                              So pay cash, and deal privately. Good luck if your phone number is found in a pimp’s call or text logs.

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                                                                                                  April 27, 2025 at 8:22 am
                                                                                                  if advertising is illegal then how are they supposed to sell? know the customers out of the blue?

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                                                                                                      Discretion is the keyword.

                                                                                                      If your masseuse offers to meet you at your place, that’s not solicitation. If a woman you meet at a bar offers to come to your room for paid services, that’s okay.

                                                                                                      But if the police can prove that the spa or hotel is planting the sex workers there specifically for selling sex, or is receiving a commission off it, then that’s illegal. If the masseuse offers to have sex with you in the spa where she works, that’d fall under public solicitation or the venue would potentially be tried as a brothel.

                                                                                                      There’s a lot of gray areas and the police exploits this to extort a bribe out of you (“we will tell your family”) but have basically no interest in actually charging you, unless there’s a trafficking or pimping case to be built.

                                                                                                      I can’t say it’s zero-risk, but the odds of someone getting in trouble for being caught in a hotel room with an escort are extremely low, and even if caught, it isn’t a crime.

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                                                                                                    April 27, 2025 at 6:55 am
                                                                                                    Legal in books but not in society

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                                                                                                        April 27, 2025 at 7:28 am
                                                                                                        there is a difference between legality and morality and the society thing you pointed out was morality

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                                                                                                        April 27, 2025 at 7:18 am
                                                                                                        Legal, but if police raids your hotel and you’re caught, you’ll not be able to debate this with them

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                                                                                                          April 27, 2025 at 7:49 am
                                                                                                          Hotels accounts inti public place so u might get into trouble if u did it during day. Nights would be okay though

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                                                                                                            Is sharing contacts of a working girl and taking UPI payment’s for it also illegal?

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                                                                                                              April 28, 2025 at 8:39 am
                                                                                                              in india it is deliberately kept in a legal grey area , they dont want to outright ban it at the same time they dont want to properly legalize and regulate it , this creates a problem for both the service users and service providers plus the gender biased sexual harassment and rape laws heavily favour women making the consumerss at risk to potentil false rape charges etc , india is a race of ugly looking people , a skewed gender ratio and a society where caasual sex is difficult , iindia should properly lleglize and regulate sex work that wouldd be beneficial for both the service provider and consumer.

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