Deep In The Heart Of Pakistan… Lies A Fetish Gear Manufacturer?

LA, New York, San Francisco… Karachi? The Pakistani city doesn’t immediately spring to mind as a hubbub or fetish activity—but two enterprising brothers are secretly running a fetishgear company (and raking in the cash).

The New York Times has a fascinating profile on AQTH, its owners, and its employees—and what it means to run a company devoted to alternative sexuality in a country that’s extremely repressed. Most interesting are the interviews with the employees: while some are very aware of, and even titillated by, the products’ intended purposes, others remain in the dark (case in point: a man who thinks that the sex swing he’s manufacturing is a hammock).

View a short clip of the video here—for the full video, click over to the Times website.

· A Pakistani Underworld (nytimes.com, thanks AS!)

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  • Come a little Miroslav Klose You’re My Kind of Man

    They bleeped “breast” — though not on the closed-caption — which makes me think the actual term spoken was teat. Still wouldn’t make much sense to expunge from the vocal track, but it prolly is somewhat scandalous in the U.S. from disuse.