This paper intends to focus on the Assamese novel Subala (1960) by 1 Homen Bargohain as a treatise on the fear of survival as experienced by a young girl threatened in the arena of sexual politics. Here we are alternately familiarized to situations where sexuality simultaneously becomes a domain of fear, danger and repression as well as agency and expectation. Subala continually lives on the margin of familiarity and her world is always transient. Throughout her cataclysmic progression towards becoming a prostitute, Subala faces and chooses one perspective or the other at different points of her life. The threats of sexuality pale her pleasures and make her vulnerable to reprisal; never abetting her fear towards the domain of male privilege In Subala I try to find a prototype of prostitutes who regardless of how they got into the trade, always remain targets of male sexual aggression and experience fear which may be physical, emotional, psychological and/ or material