Girls Working At Night Dance Bars & Cabin Restaurants Kathmandu, Nepal
"Try to reveal the truth behind the curtains of those Nepali girls working at Kathmandu’s Night Dance Bars & Cabin restaurants before you slumber with them into the world of agony and pain………………………." Every Friday night, Kathmandu's dance and cabin restaurants are in full swing. Everyone's been paid and hundreds of places are full of groups of men looking to kick back, relax, get drunk and take a girl out for the night.  Dancing Prostitution Inside India Brothel
In Downtown Dance Restaurant of Kathmandu, the atmosphere is loud and charged. On a small stage, a Nepali girl named Shanty gyrates to Hindi pop music in a tame version of a western pole dance. Drunken men throw money on the stage, chanting "sexy Shanti" to this Nepali girl.
Moonlight Cabin Restaurant has small, candlelit booths with tables. Another Nepali girl named Suman is obliged to sit with customers. A drunken young Nepali man stumbles around telling other customers, "She's my lover." Later in tears this Nepali girl-Suman says, "Sex is not love" and admits she does it to support her three year old daughter, Priyanka, in Darjeeling. Though a single parent and unable to get a good job herself she is determined Priyanka will get a good education.
Employment agents come to villages, offering poor Nepali girls like Shanti jobs in Kathmandu as waitresses. Though families are warned of the possibilities of prostitution they often choose to turn a blind eye. "One month's money for a waitress can be a whole year's income for a rural farmer", states Bashford.  Enforced Women For Prostitution
The restaurants live up to the families' worst fears all too often. Even in more innocent looking establishments girls are groped and propositioned for dates. Customers at dance and cabin restaurants often want more attention from these Nepali girls who are working as waitresses than just table service. Though many of these Nepali girls find it hard to deal with at first, they quickly become resigned to the advances and wandering hands. Many of these poor Nepali girls eventually accept their fate and fall into prostitution. The money can be very good by Nepali standards. These poor Nepali girls will earn £ 80 per month as a dancer, tips can double this and sex for a night brings rewards of between £30 and £100 per night depending on the desirability of these Nepali girls. Due to the cost it is common for groups of men to take a single Nepali girl for the night.
Regulating dance and cabin restaurants is a problem. Though all businesses register with the Department of Cottage Industries, these places do not have to distinguish themselves from other eating establishments. No system is in place to properly monitor the activities that go on inside.
Two years ago the law was changed to remove curtains from the booths in cabin restaurants. These days if a restaurant has a good relationship with the police, the curtain remains. But occasionally the police do raid some of the restaurants. When a customer is arrested they will be fined and released after a day or two. These poor Nepali Girls often face a worse fate: tabloid papers have close links to the police and place blame by publishing these Nepali girls’ pictures and names.
Customers may be arrested and fined but honor is a key in Nepal. It is the poor Nepali girl who working as waitresses are alienated and trapped, unable to re-enter mainstream Nepali culture."A girl in Nepal is pretty worthless", says Peter Bashford of Maiti Nepal, an organization that deals with the prostitution of poor Nepali girls trafficked between rural Nepal and India.  One of the India's Brothel |
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