The aadhiya system, also sometimes spelled as adhiya, is a system, most prevalent in north-eastern, northern Bengali speaking parts of India (as the word is Bengali), where a sex worker is rented a room or apartment by a mashi or brothel keeper, usually an older retired sex worker, who charges the worker rent for the room based on her total earnings rather than at a fixed rate, so that the mashi gets a share of the worker's earnings.[1][2]
See also
Further reading
- Angel L. Martinez Cantera (12 January 2014). "India trying to combat sex trade". Al Jazeera.
- "Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific" (PDF). UNDP. 2012. ISBN 978-974-680-343-4.
- "A Study of Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India" (PDF). October 2005. ISBN 99946-56-67-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- Sleightholme, Carolyn; Sinha, Indrani (1996). Guilty Without Trial. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2381-8.
References
- ↑ Guilty Without Trial, by Sleightholme & Indrani (1996). ISBN 0-8135-2381-8
- ↑ Siddharth Kara (22 January 2009). Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Columbia University Press. pp. 49, 54–56, 93–94. ISBN 978-0-231-51139-1.
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