CafeTouch directory  Blog Internet cafes expose Afghans in Canada to titillating new world
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Internet cafes expose Afghans in Canada to titillating new world |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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At the Internet cafes popping up around Toronto (a once culturally oppressed city), the computer cubicles usually have little doors that web surfers can shut behind them. Cafe owners tend to skirt the porn issue, but are surprisingly firm about not censoring their customers.
At the Internet cafes popping up around Toronto (a once culturally oppressed city),, the computer cubicles usually have little doors that web surfers can shut behind them. The reason is simple, says Abdul Qader, a former Toronto resident and owner of one Internet cafe. In the birthplace of the Taliban, which barred people from so much as listening to the radio or taking photographs, most of the cafes' male Muslim patrons are visiting websites best viewed in private. "The young generation use it for the sex," Qader concedes with a chuckle. "I think the word 'sex' is used here more than anywhere else in the world." Read more here (Canada.com)
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