The Proposition

[He points towards no culture around the world having male-staffed brothels.]

Clearly, Iqtidar was not as well-read as his father was.

Otherwise he would have known that Richard Burton the explorer wrote in his memoirs that in Karachi there were brothels staffed with boys and the total number of boys was near 4,000.

Iqtidar is partially correct though; those boys were kept for the enjoyment of men and not for women.

It is an interesting and complicated take on so called taboo subjects...
I would like to pose a question to the author here. Why in women there is a tendency to actually find men like Mr Iqtidar instinctively attractive despite even knowing the nature of such men or shall i say because of that?
There is apprently a conflict between rational part and instinctive part of women. Rationally women, particularly, after women's liberation are fully aware of the need for equality and freedom. But at the same time, people like Mr Iqtidar despite their treatment of women are successful with them. Despite advances in feminism why Mills and Boon hero remains a darkly dangerous archtypal of a Male Chauvanist who forces his woman to love him and uses his predatory sexual urges to subject her to his whims.
This conflict needs to be sorted out before any genuine progress is expected in a movement towards equality. Equality after all is achived not only by reforming society and individual male mindset but also by changing female mindset.
Lets have your take on that