Devadasi System in India: Sacred Prostitution
Yazhini SApril 18, 202210.5281/zenodo.6468195Pages 286–291 (6 pages)
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Abstract
The devadasi system is a Hindu religious practice that offers young girls marriage to deities. As servants ordained by deities, devadasis are ritually forced to offer sexual services upon attaining puberty. Their virginity is sold and they are paid a pittance for
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