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

[mkrishnan]

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.

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.

 

[Consultant]

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

LOL

 

[mkrishnan]

LOL

I know, I loved the delicious irony of it. But then, I like my pleasure spiked with pain.

 

[cantthinkofone]

HAHAHA

I've always wondered if the people who make all the junk for the US know what their making.

 

[mkrishnan]

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.”

You've gotta have a safeword, my friend.

 

[Dmac77]

This just made my day. I just love the picture of the old woman making a flogger. That's just hilarious.

Don