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This body of work examines the uneasy peace between Islamic fundamentalism and profanity in the brothels of Pakistan.

Pakistan’s little known sex industry survives under a blanket of modesty, pretense and oppression.

This isolation with its paradoxes and inner conflicts drew me in. The sexual natures of their business interest me less. I find the women proud despite their stigma, yet deeply modest in keeping with their Islamic upbringing; a woman sits on her bed, a madam. She recently sold her 14-year-old daughter’s virginity.

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