
Originally Posted by
Dorothea
Kana gyud ang India noh, daghan kaayo na sila customs nga ngilngig. I was watching TV and I saw this piece on a remote Indian village where the village's custom is to elect one woman to be the village prostitute. Every man in the village can "use" her when he feels like it, free of charge. This woman is bound to this duty until the day she dies or the day she gets replaced by another woman. She cannot marry nor bear children. She is a prostitute for life. How tragic is that?