The sale and abuse of a 15-year-old girl on the internet has caused a great deal of controversy in Sri Lanka and the media spaces are overflowing with news of the incident. Although there has been a slight decline so far, this is the news that has garnered the most media attention in the last few weeks. Police have been able to arrest a number of people in a very short period of time. At the same time, some are trying to spread rumors around the society by linking the names of various people to this incident. They can be political contracts as well as contracts that mislead or disclose investigations.
According to current reports, the child has been mentioned in an online advertisement as 19 years old. Extremely popular all over the world and the culture of extremely open dating websites in Sri Lanka is active in Sri Lanka with fake information and fake pictures. There are a number of dating sites in the world today. Even the world-famous UK Telegraph website runs a dating site. These sites run for a variety of activities, from finding a partner to finding a sex worker. These websites include introductions to people of different genders, including women, men, transgender people, homosexuals, and details about the services they provide.
Dating websites in Sri Lanka
According to the police, advertisements for the sale of the 15-year-old girl as a sex worker have been published on six websites. That is, there are 6 such websites operating in Sri Lanka. But when it comes to internet testing, there are more than six such locally active websites operating at various levels in Sri Lanka. In addition, there are a number of international dating sites operating in Sri Lanka. Even nude photos of Sri Lankan sex workers are published without any hesitation, especially on internationally active websites, which seem to be in high demand.
These websites in Sri Lanka also advertise advertisements for various sexual services, including those of female and male sex workers, homosexuals, transgender people, sex services provided by same-sex couples, and BDSM. These include the relevant person: who the person’s age, body details and contact numbers. These are just some of the goal setting shareware that you can use.
Activation
Although these websites operate in public, the provision of relevant services is not so public. No sex worker says exactly where he is. When they call their phone number, they are asked to come to a certain place and call back. The transaction is confirmed after the second call. There has been a lot of money laundering by clients in this process and the police complaints about such frauds do not take place in secret because the process takes place in secret and the victim who has lost money in connection with this process is even more despised by the society than the person who swindled the money. That is how the society in Sri Lanka is structured. Neither the minor nor the minor will display their true age on these sites in any way. Adult sex workers also do not disclose true information about age and other factors.
In the Covid situation, one of the most popular features of these sites is the live sex video sharing on social media networks such as WhatsApp and Viber. For this you have to pay in advance and make an appointment and you can find a lot of people in the society who are not employed after paying. But the law does not apply to money launderers because no one who has been the victim of such fraud comes forward. This video sharing process can be easily done by minors. They naturally have the ability to do this from the comfort of their own home.
(A) Cultural limit that endangers minors
There is a high demand for these dating sites in Sri Lanka and there are a huge number of sex workers providing sex services in Sri Lanka. The culture of keeping sex centers with a few women has completely changed and sex work has now become a stand-alone business. An investigation will reveal that there are people who do this work by renting apartments and they also earn a huge income. This is the current situation and this cannot be stopped by censorship.
What needs to be done is to prevent serious disasters from occurring through this new method of providing sex services. One of the major catastrophes is the rapid and easy involvement of minors in the sex service movement. It is undeniable that the social catastrophe caused by this is extremely serious. The case of a 15-year-old girl who is currently under controversy is a prime example.
According to the police, this incident has been revealed is based on a complaint received by the police. If the complaint had not been received, this minor girl would still be providing sex services. Now, whether you like it or not, you have to accept that sex work has become a profession in Sri Lanka and that there are people in various genres who are involved in it. The provision of sex services today is not a thing of the past but a thing of the past. The East, including Ceylon, was a society with a free culture of sexuality, upside down with the Victorian morality established in colonialism.
Maintaining the so-called cultural barriers and keeping the society closed to the masses will only lead to serious disasters in the society. Sexual abuse of minors is such a serious human tragedy. The only way to prevent it is to give proper recognition to the profession of sex workers who are currently engaged in huge numbers. It is imperative to have some kind of non-censorship regulatory policy in this regard. Although there are various agencies for children, it is unfortunate that no one is aware of the catastrophe that is and will befall minors through this new method of promoting sex work.
As mentioned above, minors already have easy access to a variety of sexual services and will expand in the future. If so, it is urgent that society as a whole go beyond the barriers of pseudo-culture and give due recognition to the profession of providing sex services and regulate it. If not, we could have another social media slogans, tears and fake media shows about the abuse of children.