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While it is difficult to put an exact worth tag on the value of the sex trade in Delhi and NCR, it is safe to assume that the amount runs into crores of rupees. As night falls, business picks up. It may be difficult to find a STD booth at night, but you will never be too far from finding sex. Deals are struck in subways, or the girls simply wave down a car and get inside.

Elsewhere on central Delhi's Mandir Marg, muscular boys carrying red handkerchiefs in their hands roam with ease while Moolchand flyover is practically taken over by transvestites. To sum it up, there is no such specific area in the city that can be labelled as a 'red light area'. And the one that is labelled, that is GB Road, is no longer the place it used to be.

We look up a website suggested by a college girl and come across a list of 56,000 girls and boys, the majority of whom are studying in one of Delhi university’s many colleges. We call a number listed on the website (971718****). The first call is made from a land line and goes unanswered. The second from a mobile is taken.

An angry male voice asks, “What do you want?” We ask for Aditi and are again asked, “But what do you want?” We say we want to meet her. In return, we are told if we want to meet Aditi, we would have to book a hotel room. The charges would be about Rs 8,000 for an hour to Rs 15,000 for a night. As a parting shot, we are told that we should not bother calling until a room is booked.

Next we dial a gigolo at (931230****). This belongs to Raj Shrey. He tells us he charges Rs 2,000 but that he would talk to us only if there is a girl to interact with. We offer more money and ask him who his clients are. The usual suspects, group of working women and housewives, are thrown up. In a typical night's work, Raj Shrey has to satisfy three to four women. If the clients are happy, in addition to Raj Shrey’s charges, they also give him coupons to shop with in malls. Unsurprisingly, Raj Shrey refuses to share any phone numbers.

The advent of mobile phone has helped sex rackets. They just get their numbers registered with a telephonic assistance service such as Just Dial in the garb of massage parlours, and half the work is done. We dial the massage parlour (958293****) and a female voice informs us that in addition to a massage and bath, we can get “real fun” for Rs 2,500. We could pick a girl from a Greater Kailash address. We get 10 phone calls through Just Dial and of these eight are of a similar nature. People in the flesh trade operate in the garb of friendship clubs, escort services and massage parlours.

While for professional sex workers, it's a full time occupation, there is an emerging tribe that indulges in the flesh trade occasionally, usually to meet their extra expenses, and without quite knowing the ramifications. Most of these youngsters are outsiders who are in the city to study, but want to enjoy the glitz of the metro.

When we approach as potential customers we are welcomed. But reveal your identity and out you go. Many phone calls later, we win the trust of a woman who agrees to talk to us on the condition that we do not carry a camera or a recorder. We agree. She meets us at the metro station of Kailash colony but only after ascertaining that we are clean. Swathed in brands and smelling of money, this is a very attractive woman. She begins talking to us and laughs at the thought that it is the first time in recent memory that she is meeting men without haggling for sex.


We sit down to have mango shake at a juice corner. She tells us that she is a graduate from the Delhi university in the batch of 2006. She was tired of hostel life where night would fall premature at 8 pm, a bore. So, along with three others, she rented a two bedroom flat in Kamla Nagar.

Living out of hostel meant the expenses got hiked many times over. One of the girls got an offer for sex during the 2004 DUSU elections after which she began getting back late every night. One evening she took the others out for a lavish treat and divulged the source of her newly-found wealth. Her pimp would send her to upscale hotels where she got Rs 5,000 per client. She was paid Rs 15,000 the first time after which it came down to Rs 5,000.

Of the four friends who walked down that path, three are now married. Their overriding fear: no one should recognise them when they are with their husbands. In the 20 days we spent on researching this story we found that sex is available everywhere in Delhi and the NCR. Also, that college going girls and boys are the freshest baits. They are lured by easy money and once in, they find it difficult to break free.

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