Only the film industry holds an invisible license to commodify Pakistani female bodies

Evidence

In Pakistani cinematic context, it appears that only the film industry holds an invisible license to commodify and sell fantasies of the flesh. If and when actresses express their sexual agency outside institutional contexts, they run the risk of being branded as scandalous whores by the public in general. In the case of Baloch, by communicating both implicit and explicit sexual availability, she broke away from constricting institutional double standards and societal mores. — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 994

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pakistani actresses hid stigmatized origins behind Hindu stage names to survive moral scrutiny — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 960