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.
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
- Godwin, John (2012). Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific (PDF). ISBN 978-974-680-343-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2015 – via UNDP.
- Martinez Cantera, Angel L. (12 January 2014). "India trying to combat sex trade". Al Jazeera.
- Tamang, Anand (October 2005). A Study of Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women in Mumbai and Kolkata, India (PDF). Terre des hommes Foundation. ISBN 99946-56-67-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
References
- *Sleightholme, Carolyn; Sinha, Indrani (1996). Guilty Without Trial. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2381-8.
- Kara, Siddharth (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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