I lose my virginity in a way that surprises even me. It is unassuming. Comes without dilemma and as naturally as the break of dawn. It is easy. It takes place in a house with parents, albeit not my own, but the comforting presence of adulthood brings a subconscious assurance to the proceedings. As an Egyptian Muslim girl, losing my virginity outside wedlock, to a white, Yorkshire boy who was unsure whether God even existed, was one of the sweetest moments of my life.
Islam, sex and the struggle to get some
The Virginity Games Muslim Women Play | HuffPost UK Life
Rusul woke to find herself alone. Her new husband had gone. The marriage had lasted just three hours. It wasn't the teenager's first marriage.
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I was surprised to learn that the population of Israel is over 17 percent Muslim. Any other Judeo-Christian nation with that many Muslims would be in a civil war. I wonder if Israel's Muslim citizens are tacitly grateful to live in an oasis of civilization, free from the smothering requirements of sharia law.
If you imagine The Hunger Games to be hard, I can assure you that trying to lose your virginity as a Muslim woman is harder. It just so happens that the enemy could be any member of the Muslim community that may report back to your parents that you were seen with a boy. Not literally, but metaphorically. It is always clouded in secrecy and paired with the strategic planning of a covert ops mission. That tension is magnified in Muslim communities where archaic cultural traditions, paired with a refusal to discuss sexuality, creates a debilitating silence around the topic.
Loved it!!!!
You mix the scenes so perfectly!
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