Dancing as a professional pursuit is unexceptional, it is like any other profession. The problem is with the manner in which bar dancing is conducted.In Mumbai while there are redlight areas, no such areas are provided for opening dance bars. Any place is good enough to open and run a dance bar. The bars themselves project young girls as objects of exploitation much of it similar to prostitution. This encourages trafficking in women and creating an environment for its sustenance. The more attractive women seek entry into films and modelling, less attractive women to these dance bars and older and unemployable women to the redlight areas each sustaining the other and making trafficking an attractive avenue for employment. This is the sleazier side to it and the Govt should have tackled the problem by firstly marking out areas for operating dance bars, and enforcing curbs on disorderly behaviour while clamping down on trafficking in women, children, and helpless people.
