Posted on 02/14/2011 6:38:16 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
Iran’s men are having trouble dealing with the brave new world that’s imposing itself on their bedrooms: an unnoticed tide of sexual change that could prove far more important in shaping the country’s cultural and political values than the 2009 democratic revolt-that-failed.
“It is still widely accepted,” Negar Farshidi writes, “that a groom can make his marriage conditional on the bride remaining a virgin, and cancel it if it turns out she isn’t.
An official Iranian study, Farshidi records, has determined that more than half of all young people in Iran have had premarital sex – which means those certificates probably aren’t worth a whole lot.
Iran’s powerful clerical establishment embraced the technological products of modernity, like computers and the internet, while railing against its cultural manifestations. But the fact is that modernity imposes its own culture. More and more young Iranians are working independently of their families. More and more Iranians are marrying late. More and more young Iranians are having premarital sex.
Kelly Golnoush Niknejad had, a couple of years ago, written an insightful account of how the internet had made it increasingly difficult for the regime to censor what young people in Iran “see, hear and seek, especially when it comes to dating and sex.”
Iran’s clerics, whatever their other failings might be, aren’t stupid: unlike Xerexes, they see that even three hundred lashes aren’t going to tame the sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Sends off Macy Gray's Sexual Revolution, Army of Lovers song to Iran....Happy Valentine's Day!
A hundred Christian lashes for the author of the headline. :(
Yes,I’m sexting you a picture of my elbow! Enjoy!
So, Iran has skanks too
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