The act of copulation or medically referred to as coitus is rather popularly known to most people as sexual intercourse. Hindu culture is definitely the biggest religious group in India. This belief enforces the cultural notions of honour, shame, purity and pollution. In this society, adolescent girls are anticipated to keep their virginity or safeguard their 'purity' until marriage. Whatever her religion, each time a woman turns to prostitution she, her children as well as the place where she lives becomes forever 'polluted'. Those who sell themselves for sex are shunned.