Lively,

I've read some research into the "loverboys" phenomenon too.

From what I've read, Dutch police have noticed that prostitutes in holland have a habit, when they are caught for other misdemeanors, of saying "my loverboy made me do it". Apparently the stories are similar in the way that police testimony was similar during the Rodney King Trial .. ie .. they are recited by rote, as if off a sheet.

In addition, the girl in holland who drew attention to the matter of "loverboys", (as i evidenced earlier in this thread - just type "control f" and then type in "loverboy" and you'll find it quite quickly) had her million euro making best seller on the subject discredited, and her million euro making spoken word tour of holland interrupted, when investigators began to find that her account was fundamentally flawed and very likely fabricated.

It seems that the issue of Loverboys in Holland is based in truth - there are loverboys in Amsterdam - but it has been blown into an exaggerrated hullabaloo, by a combination of factors, including both the willingness of society to condemn foreigners and the complicity of women involved in drugs and prostitution who, when caught, say it wasn't their fault "he made me do it". In fact, according to some in the Amsterdam police, the role of loverboys may be very different to that which has become part of popular mythology. Often they are very much subject to the whim of Prostitutes who use the "loverboy" accusation as a means of control.

The situation in the UK is very different for a number of reasons, not least the difference in Law, and we know so little about what is happening up north that we simply cannot make a comparison one way or the other.

But that is the whole point.

Until CEOP finishes its more comprehensive study, we are all equally in the dark.

Certainly to deduce anything about Pakistani culture based on the information we don't have but we have heard could exist is utterly ridiculous.