The Sexual Misery of the Arab World

nytimes.com ^ | KAMEL DAOUD

[metmom]

I know someone who lives in an Arab country and he told us that the women in that country don’t want to marry the men of their country.

And who would?

[piytar]

“out of the ambient conservatism’s patriarchal culture,”

Ah, it is conservative men’s fault. Uh huh.

[piytar]

Fixed:

“out of the ambient conservatism’s patriarchal culture,”

Ah, it is conservative men’s fault. Uh huh.

[RoosterRedux]

Conservatism has different meanings in different cultures.

It's similar to the word "orthodoxy."

An orthodox Christian is at a polar opposition to an orthodox muslim.

But both are alike in that they are closer to their true faith.

[sheik yerbouty]

From an anonymous wit..
Oh the sex life
Of a camel
Is stranger than anyone thinks
That in times of amorous passion
It tried to bugger the sphinx
But the sphinx’
Posterior channel
Was closed by
The sands of the Nile
And that accounts for the hump
On the camel’s back
And the sphinx’ inscrutable smile!