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Contents:

• WHY IS GAY PORN SO POPULAR PAKISTAN?
• GAY DATG PAKISTAN
• GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT
• 10 BT GAY DATG APPS & S FOR LGBTQ+
• PAKISTAN GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LK

WHY IS GAY PORN SO POPULAR PAKISTAN?

Earlier this month, the Pew Rearch Center published rults of a public survey of gay tolerance  39 untri worldwi. The numbers are fairly unsurprisg: While a high proportn of rponnts  Wtern Europe and North Ameri answered “y” to the qutn “Should society accept homosexualy? Among the least tolerant natns surveyed was Pakistan, where only 2 percent of those surveyed said society should accept homosexualy.

That statistic might be unsurprisg, nsirg that gay sex is illegal unr the Pakistani penal . But what is surprisg is how those views pare to Pakistani search traffic around gay-porn-related terms. Pakistan also ranks send the world (after siarly gay-tolerant Kenya) for volume of search for the search term “gay sex pics.

GAY DATG PAKISTAN

In s report, Pew noted that untri exhibg the hight levels of gay tolerance are largely secular, whereas natns where relign is central to public life—such as Egypt, Nigeria, and Pakistan—tend to reject homosexualy. Farahnaz Ispahani, an expert Pakistani mori at the Woodrow Wilson Internatnal Center for Scholars and a former member of Pakistan’s parliament, says that homosexualy is a taboo subject throughout the untry.

In major ci such as Lahore and Karachi, gays n velop a work of alli outsi their tribe or fay, but nservative Phawar, gay inty is more plited. Part of the populary of gay porn uld stem om the fact that even highly observant Mlim mal often have physil relatnships wh men whout nsirg themselv gay, she says. At the same time, she says, persecutn of mori, cludg gays, has reached an all-time high  Pakistan, and discsg homosexualy openly public is virtually forbidn.

GAY PAKISTAN: WHERE SEX IS AVAILABLE AND RELATNSHIPS ARE DIFFICULT

’ So what do [gay Pakistanis] do? Shereen El Feki, thor of the recent book Sex and the Cal: Intimate Life a Changg Arab World, says the discrepancy between perceptns around homosexualy and s apparent realy Pakistan is nsistent wh her own fdgs the Middle East, where, recent years, the dialogue around sexual inty has been -opted by fundamentalist clerics. “One of the easit ways to do this is to e down hard on the role of women, and particularly around sex and homosexualy.

Long before the rise of Islamic nservatism, El Feki says, the Middle East and India had a lerary tradn that celebrated gay love, but recent years, that openns has been fotten. “You fd most civilizatns the Global South a much more open approach to homosexualy—irrpective of s stat relig and theologil doctre—than you fd today, ” she says.

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The realy is that long before the Wt was talkg openly about homosexualy, Arabs particular were wrg about this very ankly. Pakistan is not the kd of place that most people would associate wh gay liberatn. But some say the untry is a great place to be gay - even scribg the port cy of Karachi as "a gay man's paradise".

Unrground parti, group sex at shr and "marriag of nvenience" to members of the oppose sex are jt some of the surpris that gay Pakistan has to offer. Danyaal, as he's asked to be known, is a 50-somethg bsman who liv an affluent part of Karachi, and his smartphone to anise Karachi's gay party scene.

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"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. "If you want sex too, 's a gay man's paradise.

"The vatn-only parti are a rare opportuny for gay men to be open about their sexualy. "Gay men will make every effort to stop any vtment a same-sex relatnship bee they know that one day they will have to get married to a woman, " he says.