![]() The women, on the other hand, were a completely different story. Of the several men I spoke to about weddings, hardly any was supportive of spending significant amounts of money or even having more than one event. Yet it is the women who seem to love the traditional, and very expensive, wedding format the most. If there is any human cost to the weddings, surely it is borne by the women, who must go through all of the gruelling stress of preparing for the wedding, choreograph the dances, manage many of the events and still look stunningly beautiful while doing it all. There are elaborate decorations for each, the food must be exquisitely catered and the women must be more bejewelled than display cases at Saks Fifth Avenue. The number of events is not the only problem there is also the nature of each event. ![]() In other words, a mehndi is simply a substitute for a nightclub. And while having multiple events does have a basis in tradition, the recent surge in the importance of hitherto side-events like the mehndi has its roots in other phenomena.Īs Pakistani society has grown more overtly conservative, weddings remain one of the few culturally acceptable venues for men and women to meet without restriction and even dance with each other. That alone ratchets up the costs considerably. Why do we spend so much on weddings? The most obvious reason: a Pakistani wedding has multiple events that typically stretch over a week, as opposed to other cultures that have just one reception. ![]() The old canard about financial folly is especially applicable to Pakistani weddings: people spend money they do not have to buy something they do not need to impress people they do not like. ![]() If the couple each had an income equal to mine, the bill would equal more than a year and a half worth of salaries for the two of them combined.įrom a financial perspective, there is absolutely no justification for spending that much money to entertain a whole host of people, most of whom only love to bicker and complain rather than act as a genuine support network. To put that in perspective, that is less than three months of the combined incomes of the couple and less than the average per capita income of the United States.īy contrast, a friend who got married in Pakistan had a wedding that was deemed somewhat low-key by upper middle-class Pakistani standards and yet still managed to cost more than 40 times the average national income of the country. An American friend of mine recently got married and had what constitutes a reasonably elaborate wedding in upper middle-class America: with around 500 guests, the event cost her around $50,000. So just how excessive are Pakistani weddings? One can judge through a set of comparisons. And unfortunately, there seems to be no movement in the works aimed at striking the conspicuous consumption of weddings off the list of acceptable cultural behaviour. Yet the few who are list their children’s wedding as one of their major life expenses, alongside infinitely more justifiable investments such as buying a house, saving for their children’s education and perhaps even their own retirement, are just plain unhinged. Having worked as a financial advisor in Karachi, I’m all too familiar with the fact that most people are not smart enough to plan out their financial future. Yet from a financial perspective, this culture of over-the-top nuptials could not possibly be more ruinous. Given that fun seems to be generally illegal in the country, weddings seem to be the only excuse for people to escape the drudgery of their boring lives. ‘Tis the season of weddings in Pakistan, the time of year when relatives fly in from all over the world to gather at the gold-dipped, henna-encrusted, week-long dance-fest that is almost mandatory for anybody seeking to tie the knot in the land of the pure.
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It was closely followed by the distressed group, who watched porn for the least amount of time – about 17 minutes per week.Īs the name suggests, the distressed group associate their emotional distress with watching X-rated material. This group consisted of mainly women and people in relationships. Recreational viewers account for 75 percent of all participants in the study, watching an average of 24 minutes of porn a week. What’s concerning, though, is that only one of those groups is considered healthy.Ī study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine revealed there are recreational, compulsive and distressed porn viewers. Watching porn has become the norm for many who use it to spice things up in the bedroom or while away lonely nights.īut new research suggests that not all porn viewers are the same and, instead, can be split into three groups. How often do you watch porn? And would you consider that a healthy amount or are you compulsive about it? 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If i take a second to concentrate on it i can adjust my voice and reach said note, but i can’t do it on command when i need to.Īnother weird thing (i think it’s weird at least) is that i can reach higher notes, like, i’ll reach a note where this happens and my voice will cut out, and if i keep going for higher notes than that one i’ll reach them, it’s like my voice just kinda skips that noteĪny explanation for this and/or ways of fixing it? As you can tell i’m nowhere near an expertįirst, you really should provide us with a clip where we can hear this happening. If i were to compare it to a computer, it’s like no sound file is located for that specific note so the computer just kinda runs an empty file and no sound comes out of it. When i’m singing and i try to hit higher notes my voice sort of just cuts out, it’s like air is passing through but there’s no noice coming out, it doesn’t feel uncomfortable, it doesn’t hurt or otherwise feel any discomfort that would indicate i’m hurting myself or i’m reaching a note way out of my range. Hey guys, i have a problem and i was hoping to get some advice/explanation. Find out why people have a gold star here. Get a gold star for writing an article or making some other exceptional contributions to the subreddit. Get a voice type/genre tag next to your name. Links Must Have a Point (dot com) Memes and jokes are fully allowed (their purpose is to have a good laugh), links that otherwise serve no clear purpose except to spam the sub and don't add to the conversation will be removed. No Critique Requests of Other Singers DO NOT post recordings of other singers that are not yourself, or have actively put themselves in the public eye. 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