Nearly 70 percent of women working in India‘s prostitution industry voluntarily chose to work in the field, according to the study First pan-India survey of sex workers.
A majority of the women were from rural and poverty areas and entered the sex trade after attempting over forms of employment.
(Additional prostitution statistics.)
Source: Aarefa Johari, “‘70% sex workers opt for prostitution’,” Hindustan Times, May 1, 2011.