Maybe the case in India is that prostitution is an ancient, "blind eye"/over-looked taboo survival job for un-dowered poor or orphaned girls and penniless widows? That's the case in a lot of really old cultures. Also, India is hardly a hot bed of hard-hearted Abrahamic religious dogma. Porn, though? In a country where custom and censors say no one can kiss in a movie scene, yeah, modern porn would not go over well. And yet, look at all the eroticism in the carved decorations on Hindu temples, and who gave us the world's first sex guide, in the Kamasutra?