An Erection in Pakistan: A Polemical on the Male Body Under a Moral State

Shahab Nazir’s polemical tract on the male body, religious prohibition, and social control in Pakistan. Originally circulated in Urdu as a series of digital images, the text draws on Sufi tradition, 1930s Urdu print culture, and classical history to defend same-sex intimacy against clerical shame.

Part of Texts of the Middle World, a Khajistan Press series.