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It amusing me (I have a dark sense of humour) that back in the 1980s, India was claiming that it didn't have an AIDS problem (unlike the west) as its population were overwhelmingly moral and chaste. Whereas the reality was that they had a massive AIDS problem as in certain circles, it is considered normal amongst Indian men to pop into a brothel on their way home for a quickie in much the same way that western men pop into a bar after work for a quick drink!

Ordinarily, this might not be a problem as the obligatory condom would protect them to some extent but Indian men are extremely resistant to to using condoms, apparently, and thus AIDS spread unchecked across the India as, in order to make a living, women (and men) offering paid-for sex mostly have to forgo the use of condoms.

The Indian government only acknowledged the extent of the problem in the 2000s