Prostitution in India is a wide and severe issue because of its dimensions and because it represents the main vehicle of HIV spread in a country where this disease is constantly and worringly increasing. As in the western countries i could see two different kinds of prostitution: a “posh”, expensive one for rich of foreign customers and sometimes foreign girls and a “popular”, cheaper one based on the poorness and exploitation of young girls coming from the most depressed areas of India. In my work about sex workers in India, focused on the second type of prostitution, I visited, among others, Gb Road, the red light district of New Delhi. A long street with about 20 big three-levels buildings: on the ground floor there are hundreds of busy hardware shops, just above, on the two upper levels, lives and works an undefined number of sex workers. A realistic esteem says they are between 5000 and 10000. There are dozens of brothels with girls from all over India and Nepal, the most favourite togheter with Punjabi and Kashmiri girl. I went inside the brothels, even the “famous” room number 64, to take a look a try to tell the life conditions of these women. One of the girls that struck me the most is Lakshmi (fantasy name), a 23 years old sex worker. She has sex every day with 8-10 men in a 2,5×2 meter dirty room more alike a cell than a proper room, with no windows and a bare bench in place of the bed. The floor was covered with used condoms and nobody cared to clean it. She was not happy about her life but seemed to accept to sell her body for less than 3 euros as the only opportunity not to starve. When i left, seeing in me a hope of change, Lakshmi asked me to marry her.