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INTRODUCTION "We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution". (VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables) This quote by Victor Hugo (1862) not only holds good to European civilization but also is a mirror to all civilizations across the world. Commercial sex work is the business or practice of engaging in sexual relations especially in a promiscus way, in exchange for payment in money or other things of value. A person who works in this field is called a sex worker. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. The legal status of sex work varies from country to country, from being permissible but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime or to a regulated profession. Prostitution is sometimes referred to as "the world's oldest profession" (Keegan, Anne 1974). Estimates place the annual revenue generated from the global prostitution industry to be over $100 billion (Scambler 2007). The World Health organisation has encouraged the permittance and regulation of sex work as a means of decreasing sexually transmitted diseases and thus increasing sexual health. Commercial sex work occurs in a variety of forms, brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to commercial sex work. Escort prostitution, street prostitution, lesbian prostitutes, and straight male prostitutes are a few of them. A COMPARATIVE STUDYOF BEGINNERS AND ESTABLISHED COMMERCIAL SEX
