Back الدعارة في باكستان Arabic পাকিস্তানে পতিতাবৃত্তি Bengali/Bangla لەشفرۆشی لە پاکستان CKB Prostitution au Pakistan French Prostituzione in Pakistan Italian پاکستان وچ جسم فروشی PNB پاکستان میں جسم فروشی Urdu

Prostitution in Pakistan

Legal status of prostitution across Asia.
  Decriminalization – No criminal penalties for prostitution
  Legalization -prostitution legal and regulated
  Abolitionism – prostitution is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; prostitution is not regulated
  Neo-abolitionism illegal to buy sex and for 3rd party involvement, legal to sell sex
  Prohibitionism – prostitution illegal
  Legality varies with local laws

Prostitution in Pakistan is a taboo culture of sex-trade that exists as an open secret but illegal. Prostitution is largely based in organisational setups like brothels or furthered by individual call girls.[1][2]

The sex trade is illegal in the country due to the declaration of extramarital sex as an immoral activity. Pakistani prostitutes, thus, operate underground and in spite of the legal difficulties, prostitution in Pakistan is prevalent.[3][4] In some areas of the country prostitution is strictly illegal and traditionally punishable by death, especially in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan regions.[5][6]

Most analysts recognize poverty as a crucial factor in driving women towards an occupation such as prostitution.[7][8] Both female and male prostitution have grown in operational yield in Pakistan over the years. With this increase in professional sex-trade in the country, non-governmental organisations are beginning to worry about issues like discrimination and AIDS.[9] A 2017 UNAIDS report estimates that there are around 229,441 prostitutes in the country.[10] In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, the graduate unemployment rate is elevated, indicating an oversupply of graduates in the face of labor markets that struggle to accommodate new graduates.[11]

  1. ^ "Prostitution a shift from dodgy brothels to expensive houses". Pak Tea House. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. ^ Rana, Mona (31 August 2009). "Meeting Pakistani prostitutes". BBC. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Sex Work in Asia" (PDF). World Health Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 4 May 2008.
  4. ^ "Lahore hot spots". The News (Pakistan). 16 February 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2021. Prostitution in Pakistan is a taboo that exists like an open secret considered as immoral. Many prostitutes operate underground in the country.
  5. ^ Lieven 2011.
  6. ^ "West Pakistan Suppression of Prostitution Ordinance, 1961" (PDF). Law & Parliamentary Affairs Department, Government of KP. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Supply and demand: Karachi's "call girls"". GreatReporter.com. Retrieved 4 May 2008.
  8. ^ MEER ISMAIL MARRI (6 February 2021). "Unemployment in Pakistan". The Nation (Pakistan). Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  9. ^ "REPORT OF THE NATIONAL CONSULTATION on law and policies affecting human rights, discrimination and access to HIV and health services by key populations in Pakistan" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  10. ^ "UNAIDS DATA 2017" (PDF). Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). 2017. p. 101. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  11. ^ Alam, Kazim (9 April 2023). "Why graduates face higher unemployment in Pakistan". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 21 September 2023.

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