Friday 6 February, 2009Prostitutes must learn to relax!

Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Samiti (BPUS), an organization devoted to the welfare of prostitutes in India, and the Religious Society of Friends have joined forces to help weary sex workers learn to relax.

The sex act can be very tiring physically, especially if a sex worker has to attend to many customers in a day. Often it causes vaginal pain and mental stress, as well.

According to the president of BPUS, yoga will help sex workers to stay mentally and physically fit. It would even help them to enjoy sex, which otherwise is an act of drudgery for them.

The first yoga camp has already begun in Varanasi, one of India's oldest cities, with a population of 1,100,000. But the organizations have decided to spread their efforts nationwide and to teach yoga to sex workers throughout the country.

The president of the Society of Friends said that yoga classes will be held in more than 1100 red light areas across India. These classes would benefit nearly 2.4 million sex workers, who often must satiate the hunger of as many as 8 million clients.

A small beginning has also been made in Delhi, in the GB Road red-light district, where there are 96 brothels. The number of secret red-light areas in Delhi is much higher.