Indian Prostitutes Become Journalists

A group of Indian prostitutes decided to support their colleagues from all over the country and to publish an exclusive magazine for prostitutes. The magazine was started in India 6 month ago and has already become very popular with its quite specific audience.

Monthly magazine consists mostly of stories written by prostitutes. Women who were sold to brothels being children or those who became prostitutes because of their hard life, tell the readers about their biographies, about awful feelings they have while doing their job, about their clients and other things related to their daily life.

The magazine contains prose, poetry, articles written by lawers as well as reviews on books and films. The process of creation of the magazine is simple: once a week prostitutes gather together in a small room in a brothel and discuss stories, healdines as well as design of the next issue, consulting with lawers and health workers. The reporters for the new magazine are prostitutes working at brothels in Mumbai, Calcutta, New Delhi and other Indian cities.

'We select only the best stories. This magazine is true journalism that has its certain purposes' – Rupa Metgudd, a member of editorial staff and son of a retared prostitute says. According to Rupa, while creating the magazine workers of sex industry wish to secure young people from getting in this field. They hope that after reading stories about hard life of prostitutes young girls will realize that being a prostitute is much harder and awfuler than one could supose.

Prostitution is legal in India, however the number of illegal groups and organizations in this country is too big. According to experts about 2 million women in India are prostitutes.