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Prostitutes of God

In India, many daughters are sold into slavery prostitution. This usually happens when the girl is 10 and ready to begin her prostitution career. They are sold in the name of the Hindu Goddess Yellamma. We look at being a religious prostitute in India. Local sex worker Anitha invites us for lunch in her brothel; shows us her homemade “sex rooms,” and tells us what it’s like to be a religious prostitute in modern India.

DocumentaryStorm looks at the mystery behind the Goddess Yellamma and how it is linked to religion. Religion is used as the main tool to justify prostitution.

For the grand finale we went to the annual full moon festival in Saundatti, the most prestigious event in the Devadasi calendar.

We hope that you enjoy this documentary and learn a lot about a serious topic.

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  • steven

    The missionary mentality is so similar to the mentality of the
    contemporary liberal, with it’s self righteous, self satisfied,
    cultural-imperialistic condescension. Use of the liberal western concept
    “sex slavery”, for instance, is offensive and completely inappropriate
    in the context of this ancient tradition. Surely, you’ve got to leave
    your conditioning and your prejudice behind if you’re going to visit
    radically different cultures. They could at least have sent an
    anthropology student

    • Nisk

      Actually, anthropology is a socially offensive “science”; it seeks to leave people’s hardships unsolved by avoiding any possible cultural clash. Therefore, problems are never solved but rather perpetuated by anthropologists who, for whatever reason they can come up with, view the studied cultures as petri dishes and their internal interactions as “phenomena to be observed”.

      The humans in the observed cultures are treated not as equals but as some sort of radically different species…which they’re not.

      • steven

        Well, there are better and worse anthropologists, just like everything else. The anthropologists themselves would accept that what you said is sometimes true. But purely from the point of view of understanding, they are the trained professionals when it comes to human cultures. Better than journalists anyday, especially those who act like moral crusaders or missionaries.

        The real “problem” is that the conception of what constitutes a problem is itself to a considerable extent determined by the cultural background of the observer. The western liberal journalist might see a “problem” where the member of the culture concerned just lives his heritage, worldview, identity.

  • Carla

    All I can see is a “How to fight forest fire” documentary.
    Where is the “Prostitutes of God” one?

    • DocumentaryStorm.com

      FIXED!

  • rfm

    Neo-colonial, pseudo-feminist, arrogant, ethnocentric, insensitive . . . .

    It would be good for her to watch her video again, to see how expressions of courteous patience turn into annoyance, then contempt.