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Technology, new operation modes turn Mumbai, Delhi into prostitution hot-spot....... ........The burgeoning bazaar of sex workers in metros has given the police a new chase. A series of recent raids on prostitution rackets run from posh hotels in Delhi and dance bars in Mumbai exposes the growing world of sleaze.


DELHI: Last week, raids conducted in Delhi on posh hotels and massage parlours exposed another face of commercial sex. In the net are middle-class city girls and Russian women here on tourist visas
A quick sex session at a hotel is old hat. As is the paan-chewing pimp. The new, expensive commercial sex market that hires heterosexuals, homosexuals and bisexuals has made these cities shopper's stops for every kind of s*xual fantasy.

High prices, low risks. Mumbai is dominated by fancy dance bars and Delhi is the capital for the new, anytime girls. Raids conducted by Mumbai Police on March 15 led to the arrest of 2,000 people from dance bars across the city.

Another spurt of raids last week in Navi Mumbai led 87 people into the net. The past fortnight has been explosive in Delhi too, when several prostitution rackets were busted.

Some exposed Russian girls working in big hotels, who visit India and are frequent fliers between Delhi and Mumbai. Others found local girls working from a five star hotel. Some fished for clients from massage parlours, others from rented flats of respectable localities.

In both cities, an extravagant market flourishes with boundaries merging fast. Massage parlours blur into the tactile profession of paid sex. Young girls in hipster jeans and chiffon tops who look like earnest college freshers turn into seductive divas.