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India-Pakistan
More Pakistani Teens Choosing Gay and Lesbian Sex
2011-01-15
A trend toward gay and lesbian sex in Pakistani society is rapidly emerging among teenage boys and girls.
Watching "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer", or going Pashtun?
In Pakistan's so-called Islamic society, it is a great transgression even to discuss homosexuality, yet youths have been heading toward a sexual mutiny for a decade and a half.

The new generation of Pakistan has rejected all the norms, values, and ethics of a Muslim society. They are totally Westernized and have adopted all the Western societies' norms and values.
Quick, Manolo -- fetch my smelling salts... and a strong martini with an extra olive. Someone is having the vapours! I mean, this Westernized generation is the same one rallying on the ground and on Facebook for that taqfiri security guard who murdered the governor for wanting to pardon a dhimmi.
In much of Pakistani society, being a lesbian or gay is considered one of the most corrupt and shameful acts, and the society curses it; but despite this hard reality, many young girls and boys are indulging in homosexual relations.

Pakistani society has a number of classes and social divisions, separated by social status, as well as economic, religious, ethnic, and cultural divisions.

The elite class of the country, called the aristocrats by the lower and middle classes, has little to do with the religion in broader aspect of the masses, and they turn themselves toward each and every culture. Among this group, homosexuality is not viewed as objectionable or bad.
Neither is boy-love among the Pashtuns... for the last several thousand years. And who has ever known or cared what the womenfolk do among themselves when the men are off enjoying the performances of the dancing boys? Dinner is cooked and the clothes are washed, and that's what counts.
Among religious Pakistanis, however, homosexuality -- in Islam the proper terminology for homosexuality is sodomy -- is a great sin and one of the most distressing acts in Islam.

In this religious society such acts are hidden. Websites of gays and lesbians in Pakistan can be accessed, and the users of these websites can get connected with each other for the fulfillment of sexual desires.

Young college and university boys and girls who cannot take part in sexual intercourse with the opposite sex often turn to gays and lesbians in Pakistan.

The number of lesbians in Pakistan has increased at an alarming rate owing to the increasing percentage of females in Pakistan. According to the government's population census, females make up 52 percent of the total population, but NGOs place the percentage of females in the population closer to 60 percent.
Time to invest in flannel burkas?
So the saga behind the lesbian phenomenon in Pakistan is that when females mature they want sexual interaction, but owing to the late marriages of the girls and the non-availability of life partners, they fail to start matrimonial life and turn toward lesbianism.

Many girls who are residing in hostels away from their homes and getting an education in the colleges and universities sexually interact with each other, according to homosexuals who have left the country. (There aren't official records on Pakistani sexual practices because Pakistanis wouldn't typically risk answering questions about their sexuality for fear of reprisals.)

When questioned by The New American, a 24-year-old university student named Saba, who has been residing in a girls' hostel in Islamabad, commented:

I am very happy with my roommate as we both satisfy each other and even to the peak of a pleasant orgasm. It is a safe and sound sexual relation as it protects our virginity. That is vital for us because if we lost our virginities, then it is not possible for us to get into a marriage with any respectable man.

Saba said that she can enjoy more with the lesbian girls as compared with boys because males and females are often culturally segregated.

A trend toward watching porn movies is also likely having an impact on Pakistani youths. One study reported that Pakistani people most frequently access porn on the Internet, but the study was strongly rejected by the government of Pakistan.

Teenage boys and girls have porn movie clips in their mobile phones which they share with others. They also make movies of one another while performing sex and then later these movies come out in the public due to their own negligence.

Not surprisingly, the increase in sex outside of marriage is causing a burgeoning of AIDS throughout the country.

The tendency toward homosexuality in Pakistan -- behavior clearly the result of a conscious choice by the youth influenced by Western culture -- is shocking in this Muslim country, and reflects the absence of effective countering influences by religious authorities and public health workers.

Malik Ayub Sumbal is a freelance journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Posted by:gromky

#12  seems like alot of women in the US hate men , so I guess this too be true in any Islamic country where the women really are regarded as property. Not really a question as too why they would turn to each other.
Posted by: chris   2011-01-15 18:40  

#11  lesbian sex is hot... when it doesn't look like John Goodman making out with Rex Ryan.
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-15 17:21  

#10  In discussing Imperial Chinese culture, years and years ago, Sinologist Robert van Gulik noted that "sapphism" was common among women in polygamous families and among prostitutes. Between the brutality of some of the mothers-in-law toward the younger women, and the degrading way men treated women in that culture, the younger women turned to each other for comfort in many different ways, including sexual.
Posted by: mom   2011-01-15 17:17  

#9  That is, because of feminization, males don't want to be macho and dominant over females; and females reject obnoxious males entirely.

In a society where children have no say in who they marry, neither male feminization nor female rejection thereof have any evolutionary impact. In a society where women have no power, men have no restraint on the gender-free impulse to bully.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-15 16:10  

#8  
Posted by: gromky   2011-01-15 11:56  

#7  Here's an interesting theoretical.

Thank you Moosey, a good read and possible good theory. Thanks for taking credit. Srsly. That's how you do it. If it's your idea, your story or your concept say it, write it, do it!

You're a good guy and smart, take credit for your ideas. Some are nuts (like the giant chicken theory) but some aren't.

I'll be watching.
Zombie: you're on notice, and as a moderator I'm watching you.

Knock off harassing other posters. We don't do that here. You have a point to make about the news item, make it.

First, last, only warning.

AoS
Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover   2011-01-15 10:13  

#6  Here's an interesting theoretical.

In mammals, about halfway through gestation, the testes of male fetuses emit a squirt of testosterone that travels to its brain and tells it, it is a male brain. Otherwise, the brain is female by default. This distinguishes the animals gender behavior.

In animals, this generally also determines sexuality. But humans are more complex, so errors in the process result in feminine personality males and masculine personality females, but with normal sexual attraction.

This has been known since the 1960s.

Importantly, there are some powerful chemicals found in the third world that can definitely interfere with this squirt of testosterone in males, or mimic the chemical effects of testosterone in female brains.

In the west, this is no problem, because sexual attraction is unchanged. But in a place like Pakistan, with intense sexual inhibition, it might theoretically lead to a major jump in homosexual attraction.

That is, because of feminization, males don't want to be macho and dominant over females; and females reject obnoxious males entirely.

A weak theory, but you never know.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-15 09:55  

#5  ..I vaguely recall that in order to have a gaggle the owner must be able to provide for the group. Since most males in the region can't really afford to support one, it puts a brake on multiple ownership. Islam lacking a means of 'reform' hasn't come up with the Western version of serial polygamy and polyandry to accommodate the less than wealthy.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-01-15 09:26  

#4  Why the imbalance?

Exploding Jihadi Syndrome.

In any case, aren't the men allowed four pieces of property, uh, sorry, I meant wives, in Islam? So why would an imbalance like this be a problem?
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2011-01-15 07:15  

#3  I imagine a significant number of Paki men remove themselves from the population by going Jihad and ending up as worm food in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2011-01-15 07:12  

#2  Why the imbalance?

Testosterone poisoning.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-01-15 04:25  

#1  According to the government's population census, females make up 52 percent of the total population, but NGOs place the percentage of females in the population closer to 60 percent.

Why the imbalance?
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-15 01:37  

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