A leading portal has kick-started a debate on “sex”, the most widely searched subject in Pakistan according to Google, by posting a “provocative piece”. Pak Tea House, an online magazine, is inviting readers “to examine the unspeakable problems of our society — sex or lack thereof, being one of them”.

“It is, therefore, an issue that concerns Pakistan at its core — the hypocrisy relating to sexual desires and the frustrations that are part of the baggage. We keep our mouths shut, we’re good at pretence, all for the sake of social propriety,” Raza Rumi, editor of the e-magazine wrote.

The portal got its first “provocative” post on the subject by Qandeel Sham, a regular contributor.

He wrote: “Now obviously there is something disgustingly wrong with a society that pushes a man to fulfill his sexual needs in the form of bestiality. It’s despairing to consider the depths of desperation that would reduce a man to it. And the blind hypocrisy with which everyone ignores the fact, knowing fully well how widespread the act is.”