Pakistan is one of the most homophobic untri the world. Yet, a BBC vtigatn reveals that Karachi is actually home to a lot of gay sex.
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THERE IS PLENTY OF GAY SEX KARACHI, PAKISTAN
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Pakistan is one of the most homophobic untri the world.
Yet, a BBC vtigatn reveals that Karachi is actually home to a lot of gay sex. Yet gay sex is apparently prevalent the untry, which is home to 183 ln people, some 97% of whom are the BBC's Mobeen Azhar reports a fascatg vtigatn, the batn of the prevalence of gay mobile apps like Grdr and Scff, pl the on of arranged marriage, has ma the Pakistani cy of Karachi — the natn's biggt cy, at nearly 24 ln people — a hotbed of gay sex, even if actually matag a gay liftyle is still credibly difficult. "[S]ome say the untry is a great place to be gay — even scribg the port cy of Karachi as 'a gay man's paradise, " Azhar wr.
Pakistan as a gay paradise?
GAY DATG KARACHI
We're not entirely nvced, pecially sce homosexual activy there is illegal and punishable by a prison sentence.
Gay rights don't exist there, beg openly gay is still looked down upon, gay relatnships are hard to e by, and Karachi pretty much fails on every metric of gay life except for one: man-on-man sex. Karachi is home to a lot of any other untry the world (spe Iran's claims to the ntrary), Pakistan has a homosexual populatn. Earlier this summer, for example, the Pew Rearch Center found that Pakistan was simultaneoly one of the most tolerant untri the world for gay people while at the same time beg one of the world lears searchg for gay porn.
Smartphone technology has also helped gay men Pakistan fd relief om society's strictur. "The days there are smartphone apps that e GPS to tell you how close you are to another gay person wh an onle profile. There are thoands of gay men onle Pakistan at any one time, " Danyaal, a 50-year-old bsman, told the BBC.
GAY LIFE KARACHI
He's right: a simple search on Scff, a gay datg mobile app turned up plenty of men (whose fac we've obscured) Karachi lookg to nnect:But isn't all technologil cisg, eher. For participants, 's anonymo group spe all this gay sex, life for gay people is still pretty awful Karachi. That's bee gay people, like straight people, crave relatnships.
Many of the men engagg gay sex acts, Azhar explas, are married. At the end of all, everyone gets married to a member of the oppose sex and nothg is spoken about, " a lol told gay relatnships bee an anomaly. " And s led to plots like what's currently gog Cha—gay men and lbians "marryg" each other out of nvenience.
"For many gay men Pakistan, a heterosexual marriage and a life of anonymo gropg is the long-term realy, " Azhar wr. That don't entirely sound like paradise to 's Note: We changed the wordg the lead paragraph to make the tentn of the article more clear: that there is plenty of (technilly) illegal gay sex gog on article is om the archive of our partner The Wire.