According to the online Wikipedia, "Historically, a Tawaif was a courtesan of the Muslim noble classes in South Asia, particularly during the Mughal era. They were known to be very knowledgeable in North Indian forms of singing, dance (usually kathak), and Urdu poetry. They were generally regarded to be highly educated, erudite ladies, and the high-class tawaifs could often pick and choose between the best of their suitors. The tawaif culture was made famous by the Indian films Pakeezah and Umrao Jaan. Today, the term in Urdu is almost synonymous with prostitute."

To be honest, this helped a little because I went into this site having no idea what I was getting. Tawaif is an interesting site and one that is somewhat hard to review, because I have never seen anything else like it online so if this is what you're looking for then you don't really have much choice. How about we start with what "it" is.

The site features movies banned in Pakistan. Sounds pretty hot right? I mean we always like stuff that's been banned. However if you, like I, were thinking that the stuff was banned because of nudity or sexual content then you, like I, would be very wrong. To put it simply, the site contains videos of women dancing. Yes, that's it. As the site puts it, "High class nude dances directly from Lahore, Pakistan. A very rare show of pure PUNJABI kudis. These are very rare movies banned in PAKISTAN. The girls will enchant you in there stunning outfits to fulfill all your fantasies. Enjoy fantastic SOLO dance scenes."

So far, there are 21 movies available and the site updates three times a month with new solo dances from admittedly beautiful women in native garb. To be fair, I did see some naked breasts in a couple of the scenes, but that's all the nakedness you get. The videos are split up into clips that can be downloaded in mediocre to very good-looking quality AVI (352x240, 1500kbps), and MPEGs (400x304).

In the end this is an easy decision to make. Are you into watching beautiful Pakistani women please and tease you with their dancing? If so then go sign up now. Actually, even if you aren't interested but are just a little curious about the whole thing you might still want to sign up, because with a membership fee under $15 a month, it is almost free.