Pakistan's New TV Health Shows

Doctor Nadim Ud Din Siddique fixes his gaze on a camera in the shiny new studios of Health TV in Karachi and gets ready to answer the day's first question. " My husband does not want to make love any more, what should I do doctor,? the housewife asks over the phone. In Pakistan a new TV show is trying to deal with the delicate subject of sex and embarrassing illnesses without angering the conservatives. Most of the 80-odd television stations in the country fill their airtime with cooking shows, soap operas, cricket and interminable chatshows debating the country's myriad dramas. But once week for an hour, Health TV does something very different, it takes question from viewers on sex, or more precisely sexual problems. "My husband wants to do it once a week and sometimes once a fortnight and it does not last very long," continues Aeysha, a housewife, calling from Lahore.

Doctor answered to her question saying." we call it loss of libido, It ocurres when one has low level of testosterone. You should work on husband's diet and feed him fish and push him to exercise". Each Thursday, "Clinic Online" which began airing a year ago, takes dozen of calls on subjects ranging from loss of libido and erectile dysfunction to questions about sexually transmitted diseases, micro penises and nymphomania. "Sex is very difficult matter in Pakistan, it is very difficult to talk in open forum, in media or seminar. So, whatever you talk about sex, you should be very careful" Said Doctor Siddique. In our society where women or unmarried girls can not go alone to gynacologists , they have to accompany mother or sister. Health channels provide some know how about the women's problems Any how they will have to visit doctors.