Why Is Gay Porn So Popular in Pakistan?
By Alex Park
Mother Jones
June 13, 2013
Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center published
results of a public survey of gay tolerance in 39
countries worldwide. The numbers are fairly unsurprising:
While a high proportion of respondents in Western Europe
and North America answered "yes" to the question "Should
society accept homosexuality?" few respondents in the
Middle East and Africa agreed with them.
The Washington Post / Pew
Among the least tolerant nations surveyed was Pakistan,
where only 2 percent of those surveyed said society
should accept homosexuality. That statistic might be
unsurprising, considering that gay sex is illegal under
the Pakistani penal code. But what is surprising is how
those views compare to Pakistani search traffic around
gay-porn-related terms.
As of this writing, Pakistan is by volume the world
leader for Google searches of the terms "shemale sex,"
"teen an*l sex," and "man f****ng man," according to
Google Trends. Pakistan also ranks second in the world
(after similarly gay-intolerant Kenya) for volume of
searches for the search term "gay sex pics."
In its report, Pew noted that countries exhibiting the
highest levels of gay tolerance are largely secular,
whereas nations where religion is central to public
life—such as Egypt, Nigeria, and Pakistan—tend to reject
homosexuality. But in Pakistan, what's even more peculiar
is that the highest number of hits for some of these
terms, including "shemale sex," come not from Pakistan's
cosmopolitan centers, but from Peshawar, a bastion of
conservative Islam, lately known in the West as a
counterterrorism frontline.
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