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Pakistan’s dirty little porn secret

BUTTONED-UP, blasphemy-obsessed Pakistan has a dirty little secret – it’s the world’s No. 1 con­sumer of on-line pornography.

And not just your common-or-garden smut. Accord­ing to this report it has been top-dog in searches per-person for “horse sex” since 2004; “don­key sex” since 2007; “rape pic­tures” between 2004 and 2009; “rape sex” since 2004 and “child sex” between 2004 and 2007. “Animal sex” and “dog sex” searches are pretty damn pop­u­lar too in “The Land of The Pure”, as Pakistan likes to think of itself.

Pakistan has been top-dog in searches per-person for “horse sex” since 2004

The coun­try also is tops  – or has been No. 1 – in searches for “camel sex,” “rape video,” “child sex video” and some other searches that Fox News was too coy to print.

The stats are based on find­ings gen­er­ated by Google Trends and Google Insights, fea­tures of Google that pro­duce data based on pop­u­lar search terms.

Iron­ic­ally, the Islamic coun­try has banned con­tent on at least 17 web­sites to block offens­ive and blas­phem­ous material.

In addi­tion to ban­ning con­tent on 17 web­sites, includ­ing Islam Exposed, Pakistan is mon­it­or­ing seven other sites – Google, Yahoo, Bing, You­Tube, Amazon, MSN and Hot­mail – for anti-Islamic content.

Said Gab­riel Said Reyn­olds, pro­fessor of Islamic Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame:

You won’t find strip clubs in Islamic coun­tries. Most Islamic coun­tries have cer­tain dress codes. It would be an irony if they haven’t shown the same vigil­ance to pornography.

Reyn­olds claims that Pakistan is intent on shut­ting out the rest of the world.

[It] could lead to con­ver­sion, which would under­mine the very order of the state. Part of pro­tect­ing the soci­ety is mak­ing sure that there is no way it could be under­mined in terms of for­eign influences.

A group of Pakistani women protest­ing over Western’s media’s diss­ing of Islam

And while Pakistan is tak­ing meas­ures to pre­vent blas­phem­ous mater­ial from being viewed by its cit­izens, por­no­graphic mater­ial is “cer­tainly” con­tra­dict­ory to Islam, too, Reyn­olds said.

The country’s pun­ish­ment for those charged with blas­phemy is exe­cu­tion, but the ques­tion remains what – if any­thing – can be done about people who search for porn on the Web?

Reyn­olds said: It’s a new phenomenon.

Well that’s a little unex­pec­ted. To say the least.

Brings new mean­ing to the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps”…