If gay sex can be permitted, then prostitution too "deserves to be legalized" since it could be as much "a consensual act between two
adults in a private place." Whether the petitioner was right or not in making such an argument while challenging the Delhi high court verdict before the Supreme Court, homosexuality and prostitution do have striking parallels in Indian law.
Since the judgment has decriminalized it, homosexuality now enjoys a legal position rather similar to that of prostitution. Neither is an offence in itself. In the case of both, an offence is committed only when certain conditions are violated. And at least two of those conditions are in common: that the sex should be between two mutually consenting adults and that it should in private.
One of the unintended consequences of the July 2 verdict is that it has reduced, if not eliminated, the scope for Section 377 IPC being used against gay clients of male prostitutes or gigolos. For, prior to the judgment, the police could have booked gay clients under Section 377 even if no offence was made out under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1986 (PITA).
Gay clients are safer now because Section 377, which carries a maximum penalty of life sentence, cannot any longer be invoked unless the male prostitute is below 18 or the sex was not consensual. Male prostitution has received a boost from the ruling under which homosexuality per se is no more an "unnatural offence" under Section 377. Incidentally, the judgment comes on top of a concession already made to male prostitutes under PITA.
For the offence of seducing or soliciting a client for prostitution in a public place, PITA strangely imposes a higher penalty on women. While the penalty for the first offence in the case of women is imprisonment up to six months, the corresponding punishment for men does not extend beyond three months. As with his heterosexual counterpart, a gay visiting a brothel is liable to fall foul of PITA only if the prostitute turns out to be a minor or if he engages in sex within 200 meters of a public place (place of worship, educational institution, hostel, hospital, etc) or a notified area (which isdeclared to be "prostitution-free" by the state).
Thanks to the Section 377 verdict, gigolos catering to gay clients can come out in the open and access medical care to prevent or treat HIV/AIDS, which was the main reason cited by Naz Foundation for asking the high court to "read down" the 1860 provision against the wide-ranging offences described as "carnal intercourse against the order of nature."
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