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(2008) he conducted a study under the topic “Ape Kale Abhisarikawo”. That study is
a qualitative study and it has been using 750-800 prostitutes in Colombo area. Author

argues that the causes for prostitution as the inequal social system created by the
political and economic system in the country. It specially emphasis some hidden
factors which cause to women involve in prostitution.

Ronald Weitzer (2005) conducted a research on the theme “New Directions in
Research on Prostitution”. That article critically examines the theoretical and

empirical literature on contemporary prostitution. It evaluates how to get a multifaced
understanding of contemporary prostitution. Deborah Winslow And Michael D.
Woost (2004) under the book which is “Economy, Culture and Civil War in Sri

Lanka”. It examines the as after the Colombo the highest prostitution rate in Sri Lanka
is Anuradhapura, the sacred city because most soldiers who come to this city to fulfill
their sexual needs and as a habit, they involve with that. Its emphasis that the Civil

war cause to increase prostitution rapidly in that area. Reuben Balfour With Jessica
Allen (2014), on the theme “A Review of The Literature on Sex Workers and Social

Exclusion”. This research paper examines causes which described by literature to
drive people into sex work such violence, power, family breakdown, cut off
discrimination, low education, housing, an also it evaluates the results of sex work in

further exclusion such as stigmatization, mental illness, coercion, criminalization etc.

3. Problem Statement

This study was conducted under the research problem which is what are the affected
causes for women’s sexuality becoming into prostitute. Although female sexuality is
a personal matter, under the prostitution it has become a commodity. In this problem

without an acceptable justification prostitutes have been labeled as a marginalized
group within the mass community and it has been labelling as deviant behavior and

beyond that prostitution has become a social problem in Srilankan context. But the
causes which women’s involvement into prostitution is not their personal thing in
most of the times. It affects number of socio- economic matters. So, exploring those

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