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[1] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com Date: Tue Aug 23, 2005 Subject: Sex worker's Autobiography - a disagreement! Nalini Jameela-1-1 Nalini Jameela-3-1 I have a strong disagreement to this book after reading it! First of all the wordings do not like Nalini Jameela a 3rd standard educated women is speaking! It reflects more on I Gopinaths views and opinions than a Sex Workers Opinion! I think Nalini Jameelas life realties went to a pro naxel left illusion by I Gopinath! This proves a sex worker is not only exploited for sex and abuse but for her life and biography also can be exploited! Look at the cover (I will scan and attach for you) I don't know whose mistake it is Ravi DC or Nalini Jameela or I Gopinath! Name of the book have a big spelling mistake. When you write the word Thozilali (Labour) in Malayalam as a single word normally it needs only one ???tha??? here on the cover of the book it is the second "tha" of a thatha (parrot) used! The book mostly speaking about free sex; its convenience and happiness in many chapters, it demands for open houses where people can come and have sex with anybody! In reality it lead the civil society to utter anarchy! Is our society matured enough to adopt or change to anarchism! Or it will make our society more efficient than the existing system? Or do it will change the inequalities of the society? If no then for what reason we have to shift to anarchism only for sex? Then we have to redefine our society! Neither society is based on sexual need nor sexual need is based on the shape of the society! After Nalini Jameelas long speech about anarchism she concluded the book by saying she is very happy that her daughter got married to a good boy who know her well and he knows Nalini Jameela and her profession! In the book she or I Gopinath is giving lengthy lecture against marriage and family life and end of the book when it come to her daughter Jameela is very happy with daughters married life! Jameela herself married 3times and failed! Another point is Freedom of Choice in Sex! She is professing freedom of choice in sex only prostitutes have and a prostitute is the only one who can have a child of the one she likes! This is not the fact and reality of a sex worker in Kerala! (Any lady can desire a child of the man she like and for that I don't think she have to be a prostitute) A commercial product never can provide you freedom of choice! In my opinion freedom of choice is very limited to a sex worker! Freedoms of choice that term it self-have any meaning more than a choice between Cola or Pepsi; A choice between Nalini and Jameela? I have seen licensed Indian red streets very near to my working place! I have seen it in the day??™s curfew for long days! I know how hungry a prostitute will be. I don't understand what kind of freedom and freedom of choice she enjoys! I don??™t know coincidently or purposefully book is bringing Narmada, Medha and her agitation into the book! Is it not a part of taking advantage out of these struggles and some mileage to the book? My disagreement to the book does not reflect my sympathy to the pathetic life of a sex worker I am sympathetic to the plight of a sex worker! Whom our society cannot see as a part of it or a by product of our great glorious 5000years old civilization Along with Dalits and tribes sex worker also do not have any space in Keralas civil society based on false egos and lies! It is a must to legalize the sex work! Like a political party or a trade union or a religious organisation sex workers must have a legal protection! This is the only way to stop forceful sex work! A sex worker must have some rules and regulations like regular medical checkups and some sort of govt support to keep them not going with more people in less time! Sexworker should be included in the category of unorganized workers and all benefits of that category should go to a sex worker also regi NB : Includes Book cover page and one page about Sugathakumari in jpeg format. Book is in Malayalam! Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@... wrote: Friends, I like 2 clarify one thing. The comments on Bracket are Not Mine. It is the part of the Forwarded Message I got From SWFK. I think it is the part of PTI news. who wrote the comments in Bracket. The Autobiography of Nalini raises so many Points. I like 2 Share a Point on this Weeks Tehelka From [ http://www.tehelka.com/story_main13.asp? filename=hub073005the_life_of.asp Paradoxes abound in the small state of Kerala ??” a sex worker who had no freedom of choice because of her economic conditions, today speaks about the other freedoms that she enjoys. Even as the media revels in the glossiness of sexually tinted advertisements, and serials portray empowered women, the reality is pretty skewed in Kerala ??” it is not safe for women to go out alone after eight at night, and the sex scandals that rock the state compete hotly with serials on a regular basis. Nalini says that sex workers seem to have more freedom than ordinary women in this progressive state. She asks, "In Kerala, can other women walk alone on the road as bravely as we can? To some extent, sex workers have more freedom in matters of sex as compared to the ordinary married woman who has to take her husband's beatings and abuses all her life. The sex worker has the freedom of choice not to go with a client that she does not like." Perhaps there is some truth in her reasoning. Sex worker's Autobiography Published Source: Press Trust of India Kochi, Aug 14 (PTI) An autobiography of a sex worker is creating waves in the Southern Indian state of Kerala. The 233-page book narrates the story of thrice-married Nalini Jameela, now in her fifties. "I am over 51 and I want to continue as sex worker," she says in her autobiography 'Laingiga Thozhilaliyudae Atmakatha' (autobiography of a sex worker). Human rights activist I Gopinath has written the book for Nalini in Malayalam. Over 5000 copies of the book have been sold since its release on June 20 this year and the publishers are soon going in for a third print, V C Thomas, Manager, Publication of D C Books, the publishers, told PTI. Selling 5000 copies of a book in Malayalam within five weeks of its publication is a rarity, he said adding the book would be brought out in English and nine other languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali. [It always amazes me at how eager publishers are to assist the distribution of stories about women who claim they love "sex work." - Donna] According to Nalini, her aim is not to malign those who have exploited her. "They are my bread givers". [Traffickers, pimps, and johns are just "bread givers"! - Donna] Describing the sex workers as "safety valves" of a society, she says she wants red streets in Kerala because "our society is facing sexual poverty while we are talking about morality". Nalini, who is the coordinator of sex workers' forum, says she had to face the wrath of some feminists for organising the sex workers. Sex education should be given to children. "Let boys and girls grow up together. We are separating them from childhood. That is the main reason for sexual harassments," she told PTI. Born and brought up at Amballoor in Thrissur district, Nalini studied only upto third class. Poverty and the burden of looking after three siblings forced her to work at an early age. Her three marriages were a failure. She became a sex worker after the death of her first husband. Her tale is about sexual exploitation by politicians, police and men from varying backgrounds. She is active with sex workers organisation in Kerala and has completed two documentaries on the life of sex workers. She underwent camera training in Thailand and attended meetings in several Indian cities as convenor of sex workers forum. According to Gopinath, a former naxal activist, the book is an attempt to "expose the so called morality" of Malayalees. Press Trust of India On 22/08/05, Anivar Aravind wrote: Sex worker's Autobiography Published Source: Press Trust of India Kochi, Aug 14 (PTI) An autobiography of a sex worker is creating waves in the Southern Indian state of Kerala. The 233-page book narrates the story of thrice-married Nalini Jameela, now in her fifties. "I am over 51 and I want to continue as sex worker," she says in her autobiography 'Laingiga Thozhilaliyudae Atmakatha' (autobiography of a sex worker). Human rights activist I Gopinath has written the book for Nalini in Malayalam. Over 5000 copies of the book have been sold since its release on June 20 this year and the publishers are soon going in for a third print, V C Thomas, Manager, Publication of D C Books, the publishers, told PTI. Selling 5000 copies of a book in Malayalam within five weeks of its publication is a rarity, he said adding the book would be brought out in English and nine other languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali. [It always amazes me at how eager publishers are to assist the distribution of stories about women who claim they love "sex work." - Donna] According to Nalini, her aim is not to malign those who have exploited her. "They are my bread givers". [Traffickers, pimps, and johns are just "bread givers"! - Donna] Describing the sex workers as "safety valves" of a society, she says she wants red streets in Kerala because "our society is facing sexual poverty while we are talking about morality". Nalini, who is the coordinator of sex workers' forum, says she had to face the wrath of some feminists for organising the sex workers. Sex education should be given to children. "Let boys and girls grow up together. We are separating them from childhood. That is the main reason for sexual harassments," she told PTI. Born and brought up at Amballoor in Thrissur district, Nalini studied only upto third class. Poverty and the burden of looking after three siblings forced her to work at an early age. Her three marriages were a failure. She became a sex worker after the death of her first husband. Her tale is about sexual exploitation by politicians, police and men from varying backgrounds. She is active with sex workers organisation in Kerala and has completed two documentaries on the life of sex workers. She underwent camera training in Thailand and attended meetings in several Indian cities as convenor of sex workers forum. According to Gopinath, a former naxal activist, the book is an attempt to "expose the so called morality" of Malayalees. Press Trust of India -------------------------------- [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Aug 23, 2005 Subject: Iraq: from Secular Saddam to Islamist Bush? http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1553862,00.html This can be read on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indiadebates --------------- |
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