Green MMC winks for red light district
Will prostitution be legalised in Colombo with the setting up of a red light district within the city limits? Views to this effect was expressed by UNP MMC Nadeel Malagoda at the Monthly Council meeting of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) last Thursday (27).
MMC Malalgoda told The Island that it was only his personal view and not that of the UNP. He said that there were several cases of women and children being raped all over the country and the setting up of a red light district would help prevent sex crimes as the sex-starved could gratify their desires in the demarcated red light areas.
Malalgoda said that some of the sex offences could be attributed to married women seeking employment overseas, mostly in West Asia.
There were such red light districts in many cities in Asia, including Bangkok and Pattaya in Thailand, Manila in the Philippines and even Mumbai in India, he said.
With the rapid development of Colombo by the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, the Government should seriously consider setting up a red light district in the metropolis, the same way Casinos and Karaoke bars were permitted to operate, the MMC said.
UPFA Group leader in the CMC M. H. Maharoof told The Island that he was totally against the views expressed by UNP’s Malalgoda, while the Secretary General of the Democratic People’s Front (DPF) Dr. Kumar Guruparan said that he did not consider the views of Malalgoda suitable for a country like Sri Lanka.
Senior DIG (Western Province) Anura Senanayake said prostitution was illegal in Sri Lanka and it was unlikely to be permitted.
Courtesy: The Island
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Yes. Nowhere in the world it had stopped, but continued after being banned. It is time we face the truth and control it for the better.
Colombo area belonging bhudist scared area(holy place)so its possible or impossible to prositutes?
Better to face the reality. It is the biological equilibrium. Let us have it within the CMC.
This is good thing, Adults should have a proper way to release their sexual pressure / feelings without raping women like animals.
Yes legalize prostitution, because you can save many lives of sex workers. When they work illegally, they are controlled by the gangsters. They hardly earn any money, they are slaves. In Europe prostitution is legal and prostitution related crimes are very low.
God save this little Island Sri-Lanka.
Are we still not learning 1st it was cyclone then Tsunami next what
more punishments from up above for the sins that humans do but are we learning?
Dear concerned,
Didn’t Adam eat the apple? A man is a born hunter and let him do it within the legal boundries. Natural disasters, calamities could not be attributed to having a Red Light area.
“Weerasinghe says:October 1, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Colombo area belonging bhudist scared area(holy place)so its possible or impossible to prositutes?”
Has no human being killed by another human (forget other sins and animals being killed by humans) in this area since it was made a Buddhist sacred area?
“God save this little Island Sri-Lanka.
Are we still not learning 1st it was cyclone then Tsunami next what
more punishments from up above for the sins that humans do but are we learning?”
Which god is the one that save SL? Funny, most of the gods seem to keep a harem of women for their joy!!!!!!!!!
already we have some red light areas in dambulla and anuradha pura. not to worry too
Killing should not be legalised if you cannot bring killing under control. Sri Lanka fought for 30 years to bring killing under control and it did it. Controlling does not mean complete elimination, no one can do that. Good luck to anybody who suggest or try to eliminate that.
The same way, at least for the time being, just because some silly guy thinks that illegal prostitution is difficult to bring under control (regardless the excuses like thugs, unemployment etc – they are just excuses to cover-up your inability), it is not right to legalise prostitution. It is not a good and civilised way to earn money.
Silly old fairy tales like “Adam ate the apple” are not justifications for legalising the prostitution. All what we need is to find a way to discourage prostitution (like more meaningful employment, eliminating thugs , provide education/awareness to the vulnerable, strengthening family units, give mangoes instead of apples to Adam etc, etc).
As a passing joke to ashiq, if someone is keeping more than one wife inside his house due to his so called “faith”, it is also a “red light area” to me! Ha Ha !!
To Manjula:
You say ”it is not right to legalise prostitution.” Rather than reciting like a parrot something somebody elase told you, without bothering to think, and expecting the rest of us to to accept it too, could you explain why it is not right if there are places with government lisence for people to go and get drunk as much as they like.
Then those people go home and make the rest of the familie’s life a misery at the end of the day, die of liver diseases, spend the money that has to be use for food and medicine, education of the family on buying drink and threat to the wider public too due to drumkenness. A guy who goes to a prostitute (yes, I know he spend some mony for that) finish that it probably in one hour and go home contended (if he has a family)and cause none of those misery.
So what is your point?
Indra,
I guess you are the one who reciting like a parrot something somebody elase told you, without bothering to think, and expecting the rest of us to to accept it too.
I only put my point forward but did not force you to accept it. What I cannot understand is why you have become so irritant and angry about my comment. May be you are one of those who survive through prostitution. I am sorry I did not mean to make you financially broke. If prostitution is good value for you, then so be it. But it is not a good way of living the way I think.
Your argument is that if the bars are legal to buy alcohol then why not brothels? Well, it is a very primitive and a simplistic argument. I am not favouring alcohol either if you want to know. I would argue for the case to illegalise even the alcohol in Sri lanka along with tobaco. Got my point now?
The way you are arguing, you yourself are convinced that alcohol selling is not good. But rather than stopping that “wrong thing”, you want to introduce another “wrong” which is prostitution. Indra, two wrongs do not make it right.
Alcohol and tobaco cost Sri lankan tax payers millions of rupees every year in terms of health issues, brawls, property damage, traffic accidents, deaths etc even if you do not count the amount of other related indirect disasters around it like what you have said. So why not stop the damn thing rather than keep it and introduce more wrongs like prostitution?
Can you proudly and openly say one day that you are a proud owner of a legal brothel and your daughters are the most popular girls offering the service? If you are not, then don’t argue for other people’s daughters to become prostitutes. It is as simple as that.
In ancient India, there was a practice of having Nagarvadhus, “brides of the town”. Famous examples include Amrapali, state courtesan and Buddhist disciple, described in Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu by Acharya Chatursen and Vasantasena, a character in the classic Sanskrit story of Mricchakatika, written in the 2nd century BC by Sudraka. Good In Goa, a Portuguese colony in India, during the late 16th and 17th centuries, there was a community of Japanese slaves, who were usually young Japanese women and girls brought or captured as sexual slaves by Portuguese traders and their South Asian lascar crewmembers from Japan.
During the British East India Company’s rule in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was initially fairly common for British soldiers to frequently visit local Indian nautch dancers. Likewise, Indian lascar seamen taken to the United Kingdom frequently visited the local British prostitutes there.In the 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands or even millions of women and girls from continental Europe and Japan were trafficked into British India, where they worked as prostitutes servicing British soldiers and local Indian men.