A curious new article and accompanying video about Pakistan appearing in the New York Times this week. The piece covers the operations of bondage and fetish gear makers in Karachi.
What makes this reportage surprising or shocking? The fact that people in other countries, regardless of how stifling local custom is, are after all people? That they come in the same myriad of attitudes, interests and desires as those that reside in the West?
Watch the video here:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/04/27/world/1194839708301/a-pakistani-underworld.html
