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Guest houses Guest houses, or ‘lodges’, do not provide entertainment, but are included here because they are an integral part of the current sex industry. They are the primary venues to which customers take girls and women from cabin restaurants, dohoris and dance bars for sex. Throughout the Kathmandu Valley, guest houses are found in close proximity to cabin restaurants, dance bars and dohoris. Sex workers operating out of these venues, as well as sex workers operating from the street, bhatti pasals and other venues, utilize guest house rooms on a shorttime basis to service customers. While all guest houses do not provide rooms for sex workers and customers, for many prostitution is the primary source of income. Some guest houses have sex workers in residence, and many will arrange sex workers for customers on request. THE GIRLS AND WOMEN There are approximately 11,000 to 13,000 girls and women working in the entertainment sector in the Kathmandu Valley. The majority are under 25 years of age, and as many as one third are under the age of 18. 38 More than one half of the girls and women are from janajati communities, and the majority of those are from the Tamang ethnic group. A relatively high percentage are from Chettri and Brahmin communities, between 35% and 40%, although this may not be a reliable figure. 39 Relatively few are from dalit or other communities but as mentioned above we know that Dalit girls and women tend to be underreported. 40 2010 Terre des hommes www.tdh.ch 36 Most of these girls and women come from outside the Kathmandu Valley, although many have resided in the Valley for years, working in the carpet, garment and pashmina industries. The majority of the girls and women are from the districts surrounding the Kathmandu Valley, including Sindhupalchowk, Kavrepalanchowk, Makwanpur and Nuwakot 41 – the same districts that are primary sources of children trafficked into prostitution in India. Poverty and lack of alternatives Most of the girls and women come from farming families, and nearly one half have come to the city in flight from poverty. Nearly three quarters state that the reasons for working in their present occupation are economic problems coupled with lack of alternative employment. 42 Most regret entering the profession, and almost all would advise others not to do so. 43 While most would like to leave the entertainment industry, there are very few other jobs which could provide even a fraction of the salary they receive. Lack of education These girls and women are poorly educated – approximately one third have never been to school. More than half have not attended past primary level. 44 The majority of girls and women state they can’t find other employment due to their poor education.
©Giulio Di Sturco/VII Mentor Program, 2009 The hidden children In the flurry of media coverage, judicial concern, regulation and legislation regarding Nepal’s emerging entertainment and sex industry, thousands of persons go unnoticed: the small children of the entertainment workers. There is approximately one child for every three entertainment workers in the Kathmandu Valley, as many as 3,500 to 5,000 children. Because most of the workers are under 25, many of these children are under the ages of 7 or 8 years.
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