Sacred Prostitution in India: the Modern-Day Devadasis

Catherine Rubin Kermorgant, anthropologist, documentary film-maker and author, discusses her book 'Servants of the Goddess: the Modern-Day Devadasis'. Married to the gods as young girls, devadasis are trained to sing and dance for the gods. Their sacred duties include providing sexual services to men. While they play an important spiritual role in their villages, they are also reviled as impure.

Suitable for
18+

Admission
£2 (Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum free of charge). All welcome. Tea served from 18.00. Talk starts at 18.30.

Website
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/friendsevents.html

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000393?id=EVENT539156