Arab men and women had different sex practices. Arab men saw women as mysterious and impossible to understand. They also viewed women as a fool’s errand. However, a hermit from the mountains went to the city and found the women to be slaves to men. As a result, the men resisted the sexual positions that allowed women to dominate them.
One Arab man whose sexual life caught public attention was interviewed by a Lebanese television talk show. In this segment, he revealed a little bit about his sexual life. While it was tame by Western standards, the behavior was still viewed as uncivil. This led to a number of complaints to the Jeddah governor. As a result, the man lost his job in a Saudi Arabian airline and was sentenced to five years in prison and a thousand lashes.
The Arab region has been through a dark period since the 1950s. Because of this, it has become extremely conservative. Islamic conservatives hijack the debate on sex and use it as a weapon of control. This creates a culture of shame. Nevertheless, men in the Arab region are still able to engage in sex. However, they are not allowed to practice sex in public. Therefore, they must be married to be able to have a child.
Nevertheless, there are still many taboos in the Arab world. Arab men have a deep fear of women and place great importance on their hymen. This reduces women’s sexual desire and perpetuates patriarchal society. But despite the taboo surrounding sex, El Feki’s book is a must-read.
In Tunisia, a sex education program will be offered in elementary and middle schools. This is the first country in the region to do so. Children as young as five will begin to learn about their bodies in biological and religious contexts. The program is aimed at preventing sexual harassment and rape in children. It will start this month and will run for two years.
Sadly, despite these efforts, the problem of sexual harassment remains. The Arab world is facing a long road to democracy, and the road is full of bumps and detours. But women are finally speaking up about sexual harassment in Egypt. Those who were silent in 2011 are starting to speak up.
Before the revolution, Egyptian pimps organised thousands of marriages every year. These young girls are usually young, virgin, and teenage. Most of the marriages are short-term. Girls are often kept with the ‘husband’ for 10 days to two weeks. After one marriage, Samia was ill in sex, but she hoped for a second marriage after the operation that restored her hymen.
In the Western media, Arab women are often oversexualized. Disney, for example, made Princess Jasmine appear hypersexual in Aladdin. Similarly, James Bond objectified Arab women in The Spy Who Loved Me. Despite these cultural stereotypes, Arab women are still capable of much more.
In the West, nearly every noun is feminine or masculine. However, there are Arabic words for child and toddler, “tofl” and “radhee,” which means “toddler.” Arabs talk about children in general. The words for baby and toddler are often similar, so the differences between the two languages aren’t that big.
Arabs believe they are descendants of Adnan and Qahtan. The early Muslim conquests of the Arab world occurred in the 7th and eighth centuries. These early conquests created the Umayyad, Rashidun, and Abbasid Caliphates. The ancient Semitic-speaking world spanned much of the Middle East and Northern Africa.
