3 Quotes by Richa Kaul Padte

Throughout history, and across the world, women's chastity and virtue have been used as markers of national cultural worth.

The idea of sex work weighs heavily upon our collective moral conscience, in particular because most sex workers are women. The idea that women can choose to have sex for a living unsettles many people's notions about how women should behave, and these include people who have the power to decide how cities, and by extension societies, are structured.

That the word pornography comes from the word 'prostitute' is unsurprising. It is a truth universally acknowledged that art, ideas or women that disrupt a stale moral universe must be in want of a comparison to prostitutes.