As a child, I visited Pakistan every summer and winter, eagerly anticipating the warm welcomes and the satiatingqormas.

Many things were foreign to me, but interacting in my broken Punjabi with hospitable people made the transition smooth. As enthusiastic as I was about assimilating, one thing continued to bother me tremendously.

Travelling to a bustling market during Ramazan, I was shocked by a sign outside a popular venue which read “Families only. No single males allowed”.

I saw a group of males being forcefully turned away by a security guard. At the time, the sense in this restriction eluded me and I was left perplexed.

As I grew older, though, I quickly discovered the answer: many men in Pakistan were suffering from sexual frustration.

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I have spoken to many men firsthand and find that a variety of factors are responsible for instigating sexual angst within our male population: growing illiteracy, combined with a lack of sexual education, limited male-female interaction, and paralysing poverty can lead to sexual angst within any society. The consequences are dire and engender dreadful sexual practices known to psychiatrists as 'paraphilias'.

The most common of these paraphilia, within Pakistan is known as Frotteurism, and is characterised by an obsession that involves rubbing parts of the body against