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Taliban intersects with kinky (not political, mostly just amusing)

mkrishnan

mkrishnan

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/asia/28fetish.html

KARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan, a flogger is known only as the Taliban’s choice whip for beating those who defy their strict codes of Islam.

But deep in the nation’s commercial capital, just next door to a mosque and the offices of a radical Islamic organization, in an unmarked house two Pakistani brothers have discovered a more liberal and lucrative use for the scourge: the $3 billion fetish and bondage industry in the West.

Their mom-and-pop-style garment business, AQTH, earns more than $1 million a year manufacturing 2,000 fetish and bondage products, including the Mistress Flogger, and exporting them to the United States and Europe.
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The picture of the people making them does kind of ruin the vibe, though.... 😱 I'm aghast that my floggers were not made by someone in S&M gear. 😀
 
Damn, I am in the wrong industry. =p

dozens of veiled and uneducated female laborers who assemble the handmade items — gag balls, lime-green corsets, thonged spanking skirts — have no idea what the items are used for
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LOL
 
It looks like their clientele is very understanding of this:

“Clients know our country and culture, and they don’t invite us to participate. We’re a little bit shy.”
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You've gotta have a safeword, my friend. 😀
 
This just made my day. I just love the picture of the old woman making a flogger. That's just hilarious.

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