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
- Dance bar
- Pornography in India
- Prostitution in India
- Prostitution in Pakistan
- Prostitution in colonial India
- Prostitution in Asia
- Prostitution by country
Further reading
- India trying to combat sex trade. Al Jazeera(12 January 2014).
- Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific. UNDP(2012).
- A Study of Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India(October 2005). Retrieved 2015-12-17.
- Guilty Without Trial{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Rutgers University Press(1996)
References
- ↑ Guilty Without Trial, by Sleightholme & Indrani (1996). Template:ISBN
- ↑ Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Columbia University Press(22 January 2009). ISBN 978-0-231-51139-1