i was not planning on posting anything on this this thread. however, imi, i have to comment on what you said. u said what if they are actually having fun doing this?? hm, yo think the idea of fun for a young woman her age is to become a slut, become a patro of ridicule and humiliation in society, sleeep with 10 differnet men each day just to get by, having fun getting raped by police and armies near bushes, having fun getting beaten up by these people, having fun when the clients pokes cigreattes in thier breasts, having fun with the STDs they have??????????????? nobody, nobody (may be wiht a few exceptions in all teh prostitutes of ktm, which is about 5000) does this by choice ok. most people, for some reason, think they tehse women do it by choice, but when you have a starving child, when your drunkhard husband has left you many years ago, when you have to send moeny to your sick father, think, how much of a choice is thattt??????????? its the circumstnaces that forces them. you said they have alternatives. waht kind of alternative do they have with what little education, traning they have ????? most of them come from rural parts around nepal, mnay come form surroudnign villages of ktm, many are lured into it by their freinds, and almost all of them have etiher dropepd out of school, never went to school or could not complete their education. a lot of them are actually married and have children and have husbands as well. who wiill give them jobs???? u?? or i? or anyone else here?? sure they can make 1500-2500 approxmiatley a month by sewing clothes, cleaning homes, but is that enough to pay the rent, to buy food, to edcuate your children and your siblings, ke care of your family????????????????????????????????????? thye have dreams too, dreams to not let thier young daughters come into this profession, dreams to estabish a household, marry a loving husband eventually, become a housewife, or a professional, have good chidlren etc etc. but sooooooo whattttttT??? are tehse the alternatives you are talking abouttt?? ultimately, it is not the clients and it is definetely not these women to blame. it is the whole soceity, the systme that kept them away from education, from oppurtunities to become something else, to give them an "alternative" speak of. and i also blame our own failure to understand the difficulties of these women.