Palika Bazar, Now An Underground Porn Hub?

New Delhi: Bollywood's newest star Sunny Leone is a big draw here and so are MMS clips of various sex scandals and porn scenes and the newly available sex toys smuggled from China.

Even as Parliament hotly debated rising rapes and "depravity" in society and demands to check spread of pornographic material, it seems porn was for the asking literally down the road.

Notoriously famous for being the capital's "porn hub", Palika Bazar, the underground shopping complex in Connaught Place, is witnessing a new clientele as teenaged school and college students are giving way to labourers, rickshaw pullers and daily-wage workers who are thronging the market for cheap and easily accessible porn.

This IANS correspondent visited the market in the business heart of Delhi and the shopkeepers admitted that advancements in technology and the decline in the number of affluent customers have given way to this new breed of shoppers who are looking for cheap entertainment.

"People who have laptops and internet don't come here anymore. It is the labour class which is driving the sales," said a shopkeeper on the first floor of the market, refusing to reveal his name.

According to shopkeepers, with easy access to internet at homes and on mobile phones, affluent customers, from the middle and upper middle class have declined gradually.

"They (labourers) are not teach-savvy nor do they have the money, so they get all the masala (porn clips) downloaded in their phones," said his associate seated at the counter with a laptop in front of him that had the image of Indo-Canadian adult actress Sunny Leone in a skimpy dress as the background.

"Her clips are the most in demand," said the man pointing to Leone, who gained fame after her appearance in the fifth season of the Bigg Boss reality show.

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