Quoted from The Kathmandu Post
By Nitika Nepal
Are women marketing their bodies cheaply today? Are they carrying wolf at the slightest hint of ‘violence against women?’ Are they literally inviting sexual assaults and harassment by their behaviors and manner of dressing and then complaining against hapless man?Take the recent reports of college girls in Nepal’s metro cities taking to prostitution to earn easy money to finance their hedonistic life style. It is said that notwithstanding the sizeable pocket money they get from their indulgent parents, they become ‘available women’ listed by ‘agents’ who contact them on their cell phones whenever a client wants sex for money. The girls secretly reach the hotel rooms or venues named by the clients and offer all kinds of sexual pleasure to them. But whenever they get involved in violence or scandal, they report that they have been sexually harassed by men or worse still, that they are victims of male violence and rape. The result of this publicity is that all women waiting for buses and tempos are mistaken to be ‘listed women’ and approached by men for sex!