Sex Workers

Mikey Madison triumphed at the 2025 BAFTAs, securing the Best Leading Actress award for her captivating performance in Anora. The film's raw storytelling resonated with audiences, solidifying Madison's place as a rising star in the industry.

Exclusive: Meet Anasuya Sengupta, first Indian to win Best Actress at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, for her queer thriller ‘The Shameless’

Cannes 2024: Kolkata-bred Anasuya Sengupta, awarded best performance for Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s film, was the production designer on 'Masaba Masaba', 'RAY', 'Brahman Naman', and returns to acting after 15 years since 'Madly Bangalee'

Exclusive: How 'The Shameless' actor Omara Shetty, from Katrina Kaif-starrer 'Phone Bhoot', went to Cannes with her lesbian love story

Cannes 2024: 'The Shameless', a Hindi film made by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov that screened in Un Certain Regard, is a queer love story and neo-noir revenge thriller on the world of Indian sex workers.

Cannes 2024: Why Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov made Hindi queer noir 'The Shameless', shown in Un Certain Regard

77th Cannes Film Festival: 'The Shameless', a lesbian love story ensconced in a neo-noir revenge thriller spotlighting the world of Indian sex workers, premiered in Un Certain Regard, and bagged the Best Performance award for one of its lead Anasuya Sengupta, the first Indian actor to get the award.

One of Britain’s richest men accused of employing sex workers, trafficking women

One of Britain’s richest men, Hamish Ogston, has been accused of trafficking Thai and Filipina women into the UK over the course of 15 years.

Don't arrest sex workers during raids: Madras HC

Citing a recent Supreme Court judgment, which had held that whenever any brothel is raided, sex workers should not be arrested or penalised or harassed or victimised and it is only the running of the brothel, which is unlawful, Justice N Satish Kumar quashed an FIR registered against a customer of the brothel house.

SC directs issuance of Aadhaar cards to sex workers

A bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao said there should be no breach of the confidentiality of the sex workers and their identity should not be revealed.

OnlyFans reverses ban on sexually explicit content after outcry

OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry from its creators and advocates for sex workers. The subscription s.

In pics | Amsterdam’s red-light district reopens after coronavirus shutdown

The decline in coronavirus cases in the Netherlands has prompted health officials to allow sex workers in Amsterdam to resume meeting clients much earlier than expected.

India can avoid 72% of projected COVID-19 cases by closing red light areas: Report

Based on modelling studies, the researchers including those from Yale School of Medicine in the US, said closing down these places of sex work may reduce projected COVID-19 death toll increase in India by 63 percent post the easing of lockdown measures.

Demonetisation: Brisk biz for sex workers accepting big notes

As demonetisation of high value notes hit small businessmen across the city, sex workers of Sonagachi, South Asia's largest red-light area, here are seeing brisk business as they are accepting high denomination notes.

Hundreds protest anti-prostitution plans in Paris

Hundreds of people including sex workers protested in Paris on Saturday against plans to make soliciting prostitution illegal, criticising a minister's drive to eradicate the practice of paying for sex as counter-productive.

Cong steers clear of Azad's remarks on homosexuality

With his remarks sparking outrage among rights activists and the gay community, Congress today steered clear of Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's controversial comments that homosexuality is "unnatural" and a "disease", saying it was not a party issue.