Monday, June 19, 2006

Can They Lease to Buy?

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Some husbands in western India are renting out their wives to other men, cashing in on a shortage of single women available for marriage, according to a news report Monday. Atta Prajapati, a farm worker who lives in Gujarat state, leases out his wife Laxmi to a wealthy landowner for $175 a month, the Times of India reported, citing unidentified police officials. A farm worker earns a monthly minimum wage of around $22. Laxmi is expected to live with the man, look after him and his house, and have sex with him, the report said. The Times said this was not an isolated incident in the western state, and that several men rent their wives to other men on a month-by-month basis...

The male-female ratio is becoming increasingly skewed across India because many parents abort female fetuses, preferring sons to daughters.

So much for the Hindu regard for the sanctity life. Cattle in the street are more sacred than unborn babies and women.

6 comments:

Tonto said...

I have heard they are allowed to burn their wives too...as in set them on fire and burn their faces so no one else will want their wives.

Sounds like its rough to be an Indian woman.

Lone Ranger said...

Oh yes. Some Indian widows are still expected to throw themselves on their husband's funeral pyre too. Of course, the brutal British colonizers ended much of those atrocities, but now that a bunch of dead European white men are no longer repressing their culture, these things still go on.

Lone Ranger said...

And let's not forget about the caste system, which the brutal British white men outlawed. In the 21st century, a doctor, who belongs to the top caste, wraps a cloth around the wrist of a lower caste member before he takes their pulse, so he won't have to touch their skin and be dirtied. Ain't multiculturalism wonderful?

Trader Rick said...

I think you guys are being unduly harsh on this culture.

If you rent a wife and she gets to be impossible to live with, you just quit paying the rent on her and the repo men come and get her, instead of her divorcing you and taking half your stuff and lying about you to everybody...

Works for me.

DAKOTARANGER said...

That would solve my problem with women

Lone Ranger said...

Good thing Hindus aren't polygamists, or they could collect wives like rental properties.