The aadhiya system, also sometimes spelled as adhiya, is a system, most prevalent in north-eastern, northern Bengali speaking parts of India (as the word is Bengali), where a sex worker is rented a room or apartment by a mashi or brothel keeper, usually an older retired sex worker, who charges the worker rent for the room based on her total earnings rather than at a fixed rate, so that the mashi gets a share of the worker's earnings.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Guilty Without Trial, by Sleightholme & Indrani (1996). ISBN 0-8135-2381-8
  2. ^ Siddharth Kara (22 January 2009). Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Columbia University Press. pp. 49, 54–56, 93–94. ISBN 978-0-231-51139-1.
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