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Whores Children
Sun., Oct. 13, 2013 timer 7 min. read
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“I always knew that this would be my life. I can never forget what I’ve done but it is the only way for my family to earn a living.”
who was forced into prostitution at age 14
NEW DELHI—Like many Indian girls, Suchitra was taught her future profession by her mother. In her village, there was only one path. Even before she’d reached puberty, Suchitra had learned different sexual positions and other ways to please a customer.
At age 14, a man she had never seen before showed up one day at the family’s house near Bharatpur in northern India. At her mother’s urging, Suchitra got into his car. Six hours later they reached their destination. It was a brothel in New Delhi’s red-light district. She had been sent into sexual servitude.
“I always knew that this would be my life,” says Suchitra, sitting in her wardrobe-sized room and wearing a low-cut green top and jeans, her hair pulled back in a tight bun. “I can never forget what I’ve done but it is the only way for my family to earn a living.”
Suchitra, now 20, is from one of hundreds of villages in India where centuries-old tradition dictates that most girls enter into a life of prostitution. Rising wealth hasn’t reduced the trafficking of girls for sex in the world’s second-most populous nation: the number of child prostitutes is growing and the average recruitment age has dropped to between 9 and 12 years old, according to the Delhi-based National Human Rights Commission .
“We are witnessing an unprecedented growth in prostitution,” says K.K. Mukherjee, a sociologist who has studied sex workers for more than three decades and has written government reports on the subject. “It is being driven by rising levels of income but also by a change in sexual attitudes and the increasing migration of women to cities.”
Districts such as Bharatpur, where half of the women are illiterate, are breeding grounds for the country’s $4-billion sex trafficking industry. India has 3 million sex workers, of whom 1.2 million are below the age of 18, according to a government estimate. The South Asian nation traffics more women for sex than any other country.
The growth of underage prostitution in a country where the gross domestic product has risen on average about 8 per cent annually in the past decade is testimony to the treatment of women and the power of caste in the world’s biggest democracy. India, which carries out almost 40 per cent of the world’s female sterilizations, where a woman is raped on average every 21 minutes and where a third of all women are illiterate, is failing to change views that undercut the status of women.
Whole families from some castes at the bottom rungs of India’s social hierarchy rely on income from their daughters’ sex work, with fathers and brothers often acting as pimps. The girls often have their virginity auctioned to the highest bidder once they reach puberty.
Suchitra, who is of the Bedia caste, shows how the caste-based system determines access to occupations and social status. Rooted in religion, the millennia-old structure marginalizes certain groups, imprisoning women in a cycle of isolation and abuse. Many female members of the Bedia community, which numbers about 20,000, say they are treated like outcasts. They can’t marry if they have worked as a prostitute, are refused service in shops, are called “whores” and are greeted with disinterest by police when one of them is raped.
“Caste remains a defining feature for most Indians,” says Satish Misra, a political analyst at the Observer Research Foundation , a policy group based in New Delhi. “These attitudes bring an enormous cost in terms of a lack of social mobility and lost economic opportunities.”
A single bare bulb exudes dim light in Suchitra’s room, just enough to see the black water stains on the peeling, faded pastel-green walls. Used condoms lie on the floor. The stench of urine, sweat and cheap perfume hangs in the air. Rats gnaw at piles of garbage in the corridors outside.
Suchitra, who would only give her first name for fear of arrest by the police, says she has sex with as many as a dozen men a day for as little as 100 rupees ($1.65) a time. A concrete slab that takes up most of her room serves as a bed, where she sleeps and does her work. Customers have threatened her with knives, guns and beer bottles, she says.
Government officials and activists working to break the born-into-prostitution custom say that high levels of illiteracy and caste-based prejudice make it difficult for the women to earn a living any other way.
“It is going to be very difficult to stop,” says Niraj Pawan, the top government official in Bharatpur, who is struggling to curb the practice among the Bedia community. “How do you convince these illiterate girls, with no skills, facing enormous family pressure to be a prostitute, to take a job where they will earn a 10th of their current pay?”
Bedia women say they can earn between 1,000 and 2,000 rupees a day working as prostitutes. That compares with the average daily income in India of 188 rupees.
Many of the girls who are raised as prostitutes are injected with the hormone oxytocin to make their breasts grow faster, Pawan says. Unlike in the rest of India, where there is a traditional preference for boys that has led to a skewed sex ratio, Pawan says the Bedia community prefers girl babies because they are a potential source of income.
To bolster their income, the Bedia, Nat and Kanjar communities are involved in trafficking rings that kidnap children from other communities, who are then raised in their villages, according to a 2013 United Nations report. Some of the girls are sent to Mumbai and Middle Eastern countries to work in dance bars and escort services, the report says.
Sex trafficking rings prey on the poor and illiterate among India’s almost 600 million female population. The traffickers often operate with impunity due to poor police enforcement, compliant officials and ingrained traditions of caste, says Siddharth Kara, a fellow with the Carr Center Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Harvard University .
The town of Bharatpur, located about 160 kilometres south of Delhi and the place where Suchitra was schooled in prostitution, is one of the main homes of the Bedia. The community has also spread out into the surrounding villages, located among rolling green fields.
At first glance Panchi Ka Nagla looks like many other villages in rural India, with its mud-brick homes, tea stalls and foraging goats. The women and teenage girls wearing bright purple lipstick and revealing tops suggest something different.
They loiter by the road running past the village, waiting for customers. Once the price has been negotiated, they head off to one of the houses or into the bushes with the customer. Children playing nearby watch the scene play out over and over. The village men lounge on cots on thatch porches, prodding their daughters and sisters to hook more customers.
“Of course it makes us sad that we have to force our women into this line of work, but how else can we earn this sort of money?” says Pratap, 30, who uses a single name and lives off the earnings of his sister, Manju, who was soliciting customers nearby. “It is easy for them. They don’t have to work hard for it.”
Manju’s virginity was auctioned for 25,000 rupees 11 years ago to a hotel manager from the northern city of Agra shortly after she had her first period at age 13. A ceremony called nathni utarna , which literally means “taking off the nose ring,” was held to signify that she was ready to enter the sex trade.
Keeping the money from the auction sale is considered inauspicious, so a lavish party was held. Guests from nearby Bedia villages were invited and Manju was adorned with new jewelry and clothes, she says. The festivities culminated in a feast at which alcohol was served and a goat was slaughtered.
“The first time I was so scared, I cried a lot,” says Manju, spitting a mouthful of paan, a betel leaf concoction, onto the floor of her mud shack. A small woman with dark eyes exaggerated by the use of thick mascara, Manju says she has sex with about six men a day and doesn’t know who the fathers of her three children are.
Stiffer financial penalties for running a brothel and successfully prosecuting sex traffickers would reduce the number of women drawn into prostitution, says Harvard’s Kara. The current penalty for operating a brothel is between one and three years in jail and a fine of as much as 2,000 rupees.
“Even if all the owners of brothels in which sex slaves were exploited were convicted each and every year, sex trafficking would still be a high-profit, minimal-risk venture,” Kara says.
Like Suchitra, other Bedia girls also end up working on Garstin Bastion Road, the red-light district in New Delhi. The area, just minutes from the city’s main train station, is home to shops selling water pumps, paint, tiles and toilet seats, as well as 92 brothels and about 4,000 prostitutes, according to data cited in the UN report.
Hundreds of women stand on balconies overlooking the road, beckoning to passersby to come inside. Customers walk through dark stairwells to reach the brothels. Signs on the walls carry a warning: “Beware of the pickpockets and pimps.”
The entrance to the brothel where Suchitra works opens onto a room with wooden benches, where the women sit talking and brushing their hair in between soliciting customers. Men fasten their trousers as they emerge from adjoining chambers.
Suchitra, who was talking about the dangers of her job, suddenly breaks off the interview to join a group of her colleagues trying to solicit a customer who has entered the brothel. She is too late and the man heads off with another woman.
“This is my life, I can never do anything else,” she says. “I just pray that one day other girls like me will be able to do something different.”
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The naughty negatives, which belonged to Lieutenant William Noel Morgan, were never printed but his family, who stumbled across them seven decades later, got them turned into digital images and were stunned
HIDDEN in a biscuit tin, the naughty negatives lay undisturbed for more than seven decades.
They belonged to Lieutenant William Noel Morgan, who never had them printed and kept them a closely guarded secret.
His family only learned of their existence a few years ago when his granddaughter, Fran Gluck, stumbled across the tin and opened it.
Many were innocent pictures of army life and her grandfather with his lost love — the young French girlfriend his family discouraged him from marrying.
But dozens of others show British officers inside a French brothel during World War One.
In one, Lt Morgan leans against a mantelpiece while on the phone, in front of racy drawings on the walls.
In another, similar drawings are pinned up around a battered old piano played by a young officer.
They are said to be the only pictures ever to come to light that were taken inside a brothel reserved for British officers during the conflict.
These are the women history never speaks of — and yet for many fallen heroes they were the last people to show them love and comfort before they died during the Great War.
One corporal recalls the queue outside a brothel as being like football fans waiting to see a cup tie.
Others hoped to pick up a sexually transmitted infection (STI) with the ensuing month spent in hospital delaying the horrors of the front line.
Mindful of social divides there were even “blue lamp” brothels for officers and “red lamp” ones for lower ranks.
Now a short film, War’s Whores, sheds light on the forgotten women who — with the Army’s secret approval — provided an unconventional morale boost to soldiers on the Western Front .
When war broke out in 1914, Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, issued a leaflet to troops warning them to “keep constantly on your guard against any excesses . . . you may find temptations both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both”.
Yet his words, and the warnings of graphic posters and other literature, fell on deaf ears.
Private Frank Richards, who was called up a day after war broke out, said Kitchener’s guidance “may as well have not been issued for all the notice we took”.
Historian Dr Clare Makepeace told The Sun: “The British Army tended to accept local sexual customs of where they were stationed, so that’s why the British kept the brothels ‘in bounds’ for troops until 1918 .”
Young men, far from home and their loved ones and thrust into the living hell of war, were often desperate for human contact.
Thousands of women are believed to have been sex workers during the conflict. Some in legalised brothels, known as maisons tolérées, in towns across northern France.
Dr Makepeace said: “Regulated brothels have been around in France since the mid-19th century but during the war they flourished in number.
“For some, the brothels were an escape from the carnage of the trenches. Some wanted to lose their virginity before it was too late. It’s a heartbreaking illustration of how the war ripped these men from life when they were so young.” In his autobiography Goodbye To All That, poet and novelist Captain Robert Graves wrote: “There were no restraints in France; these boys had money to spend and knew that they stood a good chance of being killed within a few weeks anyhow. They did not want to die virgins.”
Yet the subject of “war whores” is so taboo that only a handful of men have spoken about their brothel visits.
Dr Makepeace, an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, spent years trawling through personal accounts of soldiers and officers from World War One.
Her work inspired the short film War’s Whores, by poet Hollie McNish. It was commissioned by London’s Roundhouse as part of its digital art project Cause And Effect, to mark the centenary of the end of World War One .
Dr Makepeace came across Corporal Jack Wood’s diary, which describes the “great crowd of fellows” outside one brothel that was “about 30 yards in length” and says they were “waiting just like a crowd waiting for a football Cup tie in Blighty”.
He wrote of the scene inside: “There were seven young women, I should say by appearance from 28 to 40, made up in the finest of flimsy silk dresses and then showing the daintiest of lingerie, I suppose for attraction.
“From the passage came an entrance to a flight of stairs. Here stood Madame taking a franc for admission.
“I afterwards found out you paid the lady of choice any sum you cared from a franc upwards.”
Such queues were not unusual. Before one major offensive, 300 men lined up outside one brothel. Other prostitutes would linger outside, plying their trade on the streets, as well as in cafés and bars .
One report says that around 171,000 British troops visited brothels in a single street in Le Havre in a year.
Even in war, there were strict class divides — Cpl Wood and Lt Morgan would never have visited the same brothel. There were the more upmarket “blue lamps” for officers and the cruder “red lamps” frequented by the lower ranks.
Dr Makepeace explained: “It was acceptable for British officers to visit brothels but they weren’t allowed to flaunt it.
This gives some insight into why Lt Morgan, who served with the 175th Company of the Royal Engineers, part of a tunnelling unit that burrowed beneath No Man’s Land to blow up German trenches, was keen to keep the negatives hidden.
Dr Makepeace also discovered just how far the class divide stretched.
Despite refusing to fraternise in the “red lamps”, British officers were happy to take over the Germans’ high-class brothels towards the end of the war.
She said: “It surprised me British officers were more prepared to share the same prostitutes as the German officers but they weren’t prepared to share them with their own, lower-ranking men.
“Class was dividing men more than nationality, even at a time of war.”
Brothel workers had to have regular medical inspections, but even so STIs were rife. In 1916 one in five of all hospital admissions of British and British Crown troops in France and Belgium were for treatment for an STI. Around 150,000 British troops were admitted with venereal disease while stationed in France.
Some brothels employed elderly women to check men on entering in a bid to curb the spread of STIs. But for some, catching a disease was the whole purpose of their visit.
Dr Makepeace said: “There is evidence that some infected prostitutes earned more than uninfected prostitutes because men wanted to catch STIs so they could have an escape from the trenches, which is quite an upsetting indicator of the lengths they would go to.
“This subject can be read in terms of how awful life was in the First World War for these men but these women were also doing incredibly unenviable work and suffered horrible conditions.”
Many of the female sex workers were illiterate and she has so far been unable to find anything written from their perspective.
She said: “The closest I’ve got are the photos found in a biscuit tin.
“These photos are vital because they give us an insight and a more rounded picture of what life was really like on the Western Front.”
Talking about the images his wife’s grandfather, known by his initials “WN”, kept hidden for so long, Jo Gluck concluded: “Maybe WN decided they were better not seen — partly because of the images in the brothel but also because they contained pictures of the young woman he was discouraged from marrying.
“I see no reason why they should not be published now. They show another side of the war, which should also be remembered.”
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