Perhaps Why Democrats Are So Sensitive on the Torture Issue

Perhaps Why Democrats Are So Sensitive on the Torture Issue

An April 27, 2009 New York Times article about manufacturing of whips contains this amazing discussion:

KARACHI, Pakistan — In Pakistan, a flogger is known only as the Taliban’s choice whip for beating those who defy their strict codes of Islam.

But deep in the nation’s commercial capital, just next door to a mosque and the offices of a radical Islamic organization, in an unmarked house two Pakistani brothers have discovered a more liberal and lucrative use for the scourge: the $3 billion fetish and bondage industry in the West.

Their mom-and-pop-style garment business, AQTH, earns more than $1 million a year manufacturing 2,000 fetish and bondage products, including the Mistress Flogger, and exporting them to the United States and Europe.

I won't describe the stuff that they manufacture--it's just too disgusting--but they do know their market:

Today, they sell their products to online and brick-and-mortar shops, and to individuals via eBay. Their market research, they said, showed that 70 percent of their customers were middle- to upper-class Americans, and a majority of them Democrats. The Netherlands and Germany account for the bulk of their European sales. [emphasis added]

I can't claim to be surprised, just disappointed. People that find pain and humiliation erotic need some serious help. Or they need the cost of their toys raised enough that they can't afford to keep backing Democrats.