Re: Kanjar Community
That was a dumb post, surbhi dayal. Prostitution is against both God's law and man made law. You know nothing about prostitution--the girls and women who are involved are total victims of their circumstances. In Pakistan, in the Heera Mandi area, little girls are sold to men both locally and abroad who pay handsomely to rob them of their virginity (we're talking 12 year old girls being sold to 60 year old men). The older girls and women are beaten, raped and abused. They are exposed to AIDS and other diseases, and can do nothing about protecting themselves. Is that something that should be allowed? There goes your theory that no one is being hurt. They ARE human beings, which is precisely why prostitution should be outlawed. You think those women are taking home their earnings? No, their pimps take just about everything, the women live in utter filth and suffer day in and day out. They are hopeless and their children are born to repeat the cycle. The daughter of a tawaif is always a tawaif.
There are two excellent books on the subject: Taboo by Fouzia Saeed and The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown. Both are written by professors who spent time in the area. Louise Brown's book is so phenomenonal and riveting, especially since she (a British white woman) spent five years living in Heera Mandi, a witness to everything that goes on. It's not a pretty picture, to say the least. People like to glamourize it as if it is a scene out of Pakeeza, but it's NOTHING like that. The darbari culture died a long time ago, and all that's left is cheap commercial sex, desperate women and lecherous, opportunisitic men.