If nations were to be tagged with mental disorders, Pakistan would be within a second, diagnosed as a “split personality” when it comes to sex.
Lurking in the shadows are things like hudood laws, gruesome honour killings of people (almost always women) who were “allegedly involved in illicit behaviours” and students threatening to expose other students for holding hands or being a little chummy. We constantly want to be the upholders of modesty and chastity.
On the flipside, Pakistan tops the charts as the country that searches for the word “sex” and is always somewhere in the top ten nations that enjoys watching porn. Our favourite’s jokes are about sex. Our modesty flies out of the window, while a thousand eyes stare at a female that walks on the road.
The obsession with sex maybe worldwide but here the thought of sex for most people (read men) in Pakistan triggers dogmatic feelings of control, disgust, evil and degradation. The truth is that sexuality is just the opposite.
P.S
The above piece was printed in TNS on 3rd January 2010.i thought of sharing it with u people
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