Girls drugged into puberty, sold as prostitutes

[Mari333]

A Headlines Today team has uncovered the thriving prostitution racket in Sodavas and Girvas villages of the state's Alwar region. The team found that villagers were giving the girls - some of them as young as 10 - repeated and unregulated shots of growth hormone Oxytocin to speed up their sexual maturation.

"Gangs from the Bedia and Nutt communities kidnap girls, give them injections to make them reach puberty. The girls are then sent to Mumbai and even the Gulf for prostitution," said Rishi, a social activist in the area.

The kidnapped girls, some of them six-month-old babies, are brought to Sodavas and Girvas from far and wide. They are raised by the villagers "as their own daughters".

"Prostitution is a tradition in our community," said Ram Prasad, a village panch.















http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/99132/India/Girls%20drugged%20into%20puberty,%20sold%20as%20prostitutes.html


they inject the kids with oxytocin at 6 yrs old.

I know this goes on everywhere, but it needs to be shown to the world whenever its reported.

[AllentownJake]

1. Rush Limbaugh issues a statement

No Comment.

[girl gone mad]

2. Is this the region where the men..

are lazy dirt bags who refuse to work and instead pimp out their own daughters? I think I remember a story of a girl who was very smart and wanted to go to school, but her father was trying to keep her from getting any education so he could force her into prostitution instead.

It sounds as if maybe they are getting desperate for girls now. I hope it is because the older ones wised up and got away from that horrible place.

[Xenotime]

4. Sickening. The greed of the human male is destroying lives and this planet.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. I really despise it when threads like this are used for opportunistic, generalized male-bashing

rather than honest conversation.

It's shameful.

[seabeyond]

6. sounds to me like raised cattle used to feed..... nt

[LeftyMom]

3. oxytocin doesn't do that.

:shrug:

[The_Commonist]

5. Oxytocin is not Oxycontin...

Oxytocin is a hormone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin

Oxycontin is hillbilly heroin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OxyContin#OxyContin

[LeftyMom]

10. I know that. Oxytocin is a hormone that regulates feelings of affection and bonding.

It's not a growth hormone.

[Dogtown]

7. Apparently you are correct

but it's interesting that Wiki has the same language describing the incidences on the Subcontinent under the heading of "Misuse of Drug":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin

My guess is that the paragraph is an "add-on"; the composition style seems to differ from that of the author of the piece.


Another mention in that article might have some bearing on it's misuse:

"Recent studies have begun to investigate oxytocin's role in various behaviors, including orgasm, social recognition, pair bonding, anxiety, trust, love, and maternal behaviors.<2> For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as the "cuddle hormone." <3>"

[Solly Mack]

8. k/r

[MineralMan]

9. Now, that's disgusting!

Humanity is capable of horrible things.

[jp11]

11. 'Tradition', I think I had ancestors that had a tradition of killing people they didn't like

[Kitty Herder]

12. Sometimes I just want to go on a rampage.

Learning about something horrific like this induces that feeling.

[flvegan]

13. I'll be the first to say I'd gladly support a liberation movement here.

I know a lot folks DU would hate, but would be on board for this.

[LeftyMom]

14. Honey, this story is a load of crap and I'd bet money it's a hoax.

Oxytocin isn't a growth hormone. It's a hormone and promotes feelings of love and bonding, notably between mothers and children- for example it's released during breastfeeding.

While it's also produced in sex (thus bonding feelings, afterglow, etc) it's not involved in the rate of sexual maturation.