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India's shame
Friedman, Robert I. | April 8, 1996 issue

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There are more than 100,000 female prostitutes in Bombay, Asia's largest sex bazaar. Ninety percent are indentured slaves, with as many as half trafficked from Nepal, according to human rights groups. Twenty percent of Bombay's commercial sex workers are under 18. Child prostitutes as young as 9 fetch up to 60,000 rupees, or $2,000, at auctions where Arabs from the Persian Gulf bid against Indian men who believe sleeping with a virgin cures gonorrhea and syphilis. Actually, more than half of Bombay's prostitutes are infected with HIV, according to Human Rights Watch, which says that India's red-light districts are the primary vector of its spread into the general population.

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PROSTITUTION; PROSTITUTES; SEX workers; CHILD prostitutes; BOMBAY (India); INDIA
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