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“Sexual attitudes and behaviors are intimately bound up in religion, tradition, culture, politics, and economics.”
― Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
― Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
“Moreover, for women in Egypt and its Arab neighbors, having a husband is key: a woman’s social value is still tied to her status as a wife and mother, no matter how accomplished or professionally successful she might be. In recent years, the phenomenon of ‘unusa—spinsterhood—has become the stuff of Facebook groups, blogs, best-selling books, and TV series. As they say in Egypt, “The shade of a man is better than the shade of a wall.”
― Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
― Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
“he predicted, was the “complete extinction” of America: families torn apart by divorce and the young addled by drugs, booze, and sexual “deviance,” leading to wholesale depopulation as reproduction ground to a halt.”
― Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
― Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
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