Name: 神の売春婦（ドキュメンタリー (Prostitutes of God (Documentary))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:40:39.000Z
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SARAH HARRIS: The first thing that strikes you when you come

to India is a sense of extreme contrasts.

While some people are still shitting off the side of

railway lines and eating from banana leaves, other people

are drinking Frappuccinos and wearing Gucci sunglasses.

Along with this feeling of progress and moving forward,

there's still this undercurrent of tradition and

religion and superstition and an even more deeply ingrained

I didn't realize quite how sharp these contrasts between

new and old India were until I came here last year to

research an article about sex trafficking.

And on my very first day here, I met a group of temple

prostitutes who told me about this ancient Hindu system

where prepubescent girls are dedicated to a goddess, and

for the rest of their lives, they will become sex slaves of

This train's a little bit like The Darjeeling Limited, except

we have cockroaches sleeping under our beds.

So in the beginning, being a devadasi had nothing to do

In medieval India, they were glamorous temple dancers and

They performed sacred religious rituals and danced

for loyalty in the name of a goddess called Yellamma.

Over the centuries, the link between the devadasis and

their temples gradually diminished, along with their

They became the paid mistresses of priests, then

In the 19th century, Western missionaries tried to abolish

the tradition, calling it grotesque and immoral, driving

Today, devadasis are no different to common street

hookers, servicing drunk truck drivers and bored businessmen.

Even though the practice has been illegal for over 20

years, up to 3,000 girls are still being secretly dedicated

We traveled to the border town of Sangli, which straddles the

two southern Indian states of Karnataka and Maharastra.

Its red light district is home to hundreds of devadasi sex

workers, and that afternoon, we were invited there by

Anitha, one of its most successful brothel owners.

She's a member of an NGO called SANGRAM, which fights

Communication was pretty painful, as our interpreter

Somashekar was having some trouble with his English.

And they're all friends who live around here?

SARAH HARRIS: So when the customer comes inside, the

SOMASHEKAR: That's another one of Anitha's friends who's

SARAH HARRIS: You work in this room, and Anitha

SARAH HARRIS: The whole place is completely difference to

I kind of imagined these really seedy, anonymous

And actually, there's kids running around everywhere.

There's women doing their laundry, making lunch.

The ladies of Sangli wouldn't let me leave without showing

It seemed like wherever there were brothels, the goddess

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