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Revealing an undercover story of the Lahore’s Homosexual World

"Our children go directly to the school and come back home as obedient kids. They are yet not aware of the outside world. They are just living in their own innocent world of tranquility". This is the opinion of most of the parents living today in the posh areas of Lahore. But are we sure that these children who are generally not going anywhere but their educational institutions are secure? No, not really. This is what I have recently observed. My observation specially holds good for the teenagers and the college going students.

Omar has recently cleared his intermediate. He does not like to move out often with his friends as desired by his parents. He surely does not have a very good idea of the outside world. Living in the noble locality of Defence Lahore, he does not have to put in much of his efforts to remain pure. But being nineteen years of age, he cannot avoid much of the nudity and impropriety that can come to him, without shame and without the fear of being caught. One way that he found for this was the Internet. He does not have to move out of his room, or bring anything suspicious. All he has to do is sit on his computer and log on. Then he can seek any search engine for bareness and he can find enough of the material to fulfill his lust.

One of the effects of all the pollution he has seen is that he has developed an anxiety to discover some natural facts that have been long hidden from him. But can he find some person of the opposite sex willing to accomplish his desire? No. Being in an eastern country, and being taught the urbane manners, he cannot hit upon such a person. And one fine day he comes across yet another person who tells him about the homosexuality. The child is not much aware of this idea and thus starts to ponder whether he is a homosexual or not. To learn about himself he searches the term and finds his way to carry out his hunger for. On the "mirc" he finds a special room called "gaypakistani". It is most astonishing to see dozens of Pakistani boys searching for their partners in that room. He just had to be honest and of course being young and energetic, he got a number of people willing to go out with him. And what he found amusing was that he was enjoying the attention given to him. He was happy to see himself dealt in such a fond manner. Different people asked him to move out with him. He was surely not interested in them all. But yet there were some that made him aroused. It was just that secretive thought of adulthood that did it. But being young and innocent, the boy was unaware.

It was the September 3 when he came across Majid, an old man of 34 working at Shezan. He was divorced with two daughters aged 11 and 12, working at Multan Road. He had been alone for some year and a half after the divorce and was residing with his mother. Since he was to keep in touch with the children, so he could not have dated out. This was one of the reasons why he was attracted to men he told Omar. To his own surprise, after the initial reluctance, Omar finally agreed to meet him in person. The person came at a place near to his house and set off with him to his office. Earlier, there was some talk regarding various fields. But once at the office, his behaviour was changed at once. For the first time Omar realized that he was not in good hands. His body was taken in some negative prospective and he was dealt in a manner he had never thought about. Eventually he came out with pain and sufferings when the old man had satisfied his evil urge.

This is surely not one incident. There are many such cases in the city of Lahore. The unaware children are facing much of a snag in the world of today. They cannot be let to the hands of some slaughterers who are willing to crush their desires under their own yearn. The children of today must be taught how to manage their affairs. They cannot be kept as children for their entire life. One day or other they have to expose to the society. By then they must be aware of the right and wrong.

If this is not feasible and your children are still not mature enough, then you should restrict their Internet. Not only do we face the adult talk on the chat browsers, but some renowned sites such as yahoo also have the adult content. Though the cyber world has not only its own charm but also a great many advantages. What you can do is that you can filter your net yourself. Every browser has an option of the Internet content. You can change it according to your desire and make sure that you enable it in such a way that your children cannot approach any other sites but those that have been thoroughly checked by you. You can also make use of certain filtering software such as the ‘net nanny’. Or you can go for some filtered ISP. This is the only way to make sure that your children do not ruin their life, and when you say that ‘my child is living in his own innocent world of tranquility’; you would not be false again.