The Official Discourse Around PITA Gopika Solanki Gitanjali Gangoli Official discourse on prostitution legislative and legal debates and judicial attitudes reveals a disturbing ambivalence towards the practitioners and the profession. Not surprisingly, laws on prostitution are formulated to neither give justice to prostitutes nor eradicate prostitution. Moreover, the ambivalence often results in the prostitutes, already oppressed and abused at various levels of society, being further subjected to demeaning treatment at the hands of the state aonaratus.
