LA, New York, San Francisco... Karachi? The Pakistani city doesn't immediately spring to mind as a hubbub or fetish activity—but two enterprising brothers are secretly running a fetishgear company (and raking in the cash).

The New York Times has a fascinating profile on AQTH, its owners, and its employees—and what it means to run a company devoted to alternative sexuality in a country that's extremely repressed. Most interesting are the interviews with the employees: while some are very aware of, and even titillated by, the products' intended purposes, others remain in the dark (case in point: a man who thinks that the sex swing he's manufacturing is a hammock).

View a short clip of the video here—for the full video, click over to the Times website.

· A Pakistani Underworld (nytimes.com, thanks AS!)

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