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© Giulio Di Sturco/VII Mentor Program, 2009 The average age of children in the entertainment industry is going down rapidly. Social workers report children as young as 12 years old in massage parlours.
THE ENTERTAINMENT AND SEX INDUSTRIES IN NEPAL PART 3. 250 200 150 100 50 0 2003 Number of massage parlours in Thamel 2003-2009 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Source: Change Nepal Internal Survey, October 2009 Today, in the Kathmandu Valley alone, there are an estimated 11,000 to 13,000 girls and women working in what is often called the ‘night entertainment industry’. 22 From a handful of cabin restaurants, massage parlours and dance bars in the year 2000, today there are an estimated 1,000-1,200 cabin restaurants, 150-180 dance bars and over 200 massage parlours in Thamel alone. Approximately 50 dohori restaurants (dohori sanjh) provide live musical entertainment within the Valley. 23 The ‘entertainment industry’ spreads across the entire country, concentrated in urban and semi-urban centres and along transportation routes. Is it an entertainment industry or a sex industry It is both. Providing music, alcoholic beverages and dance performances is usually referred to as an entertainment industry. When these activities are used to facilitate access to sex workers, it is a sex industry. While entrepreneurs, hotel owners and the travel industry wish to portray Nepal’s present entertainment sector as ‘clean and respectable’, the income derived from the entertainment sector comes from men who wish to be personally entertained by girls and women, as waitresses, temporary social partners and sex partners. As one cabin restaurant owner recently said ‘without the girls and women, we would have no business.’ It is important to note that all girls and women in the entertainment sector are not sex workers. Studies indicate that only one third to one half of girls and women conduct sex work (although this figure may be low, as many deny doing so). 24 In the ActionAid 2004 study, 37% of cabin restaurant workers stated that their activities included either masturbation, oral sex or going with the customers for sex. However, even those who do not sell sex are placed in situations in which they are subjected to sexual harassment and abuse in order to please customers so they will buy food and alcohol. Among those who sell sex directly, a large proportion do so unwillingly, under coercion from their employer and/or the customer. In 2010 Terre des hommes www.tdh.ch 23
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