Lagatta’s Reviews > Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World > Status Update

it's astonishing how open minded the arab culture was in writing about sex, in such a frank and descriptive way. Until, this ease started to be considered a symptom of decline. A concept that was introduced also by the Western culture that was far more conservative at the time.

talking about sexual difficulties, this passage made me laugh ''some blamed it on the economy, others on pollution, but after much discussion they concluded it was a Western-Israel plot. According to the office consensus, there are secret agents all over Cairo wearing special belts that emit some sort of spray or beam to neuter Egyptian men, thereby weakening the nation and reducing population growth(...)''