BANGALORE: After having had acid thrown in her face by a spurned lover, chilli powder shoved inside her during a gang rape and money stolen by police, Asara says she knows one thing: “I am very put off by men.”
And she is not alone in India's premier high-tech city, Bangalore, where an estimated 25,000 sex workers who are among the highest at risk for HIV infection also face beatings, rape and extortion from police, lovers, husbands and rowdies.
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