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 Mis?rables) 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...