Six to 8 million. Tucker cited unsafe sex as the second-most-common cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. The legality of sex work in Asia is murky at best. Rules exist against organizing commercial sex, but there is huge variation across regions in the methods of processing and prosecuting sex crimes. And, just like in the United States, there are large gaps in the sexual health education of Asian youth. There are two frameworks, according to Tucker, through which governments usually try to address and protect sex workers.
In the Sonagachi red-light district of Kolkata, India, he said, there has been a huge push in recent years to carve out a niche for effective STI prevention. The other framework addresses sex work with a primary goal of preventing human trafficking. Vance also addressed what she identified as the excessive research focus on trafficking and forced prostitution. In fact, she said, many prostitutes are not forced into the trade, and most prostitutes do not work in brothels.
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