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Eventually Barake was subjected to a humiliating "finger test" and handed $20 in what she thinks may have been an attempt to buy her silence.
The rights group reported that in four cases, doctors used an unscientific "finger test" to examine girls who had been raped.
The finger test — which ostensibly provides evidence of a woman's level of promiscuity and has, in some cases, led to rape charges being dropped — is not the only hangover from the days of the Raj.
Underlying the finger test is an unspoken but very strong belief: the idea that a promiscuous woman, or a sexually liberated woman, is fair game, her "modesty" no longer the responsibility of the government to protect.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch examining the common practice in India of subjecting unmarried women who say they have been raped to what the law calls a "finger test" has reopened a series of questions about the country's laws governing sexual violence.
The "two finger" test, which is not a law but a practice adopted by doctors, is an excellent case in point.
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The order of finger testing was randomized for each subject.
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