Dr. Sanity: NO RELATION TO REALITY, INDEED. Dr. Sanity outlines the pathological and atavistic fear and loathing of female sexuality that grips the Arab world. There are a number of people who believe that this is the root cause of so many problems in places like Saudi Arabia. The subjugation of women as well as polygamy creates a permenant underclass of men who have no prospects for marriage and are frustrated to the point of psychosis. Likewise the oppression of women warps society b/c men have no moderating influence on them. Women, even their mothers, are oppressed and treated as second class. That simply can't be a good thing.

I understand their desire to resist the floodtide of sexual exploitation that comes with western influence but surely there's a better way. Look at India. They have access to all things Western and don't succumb to it. Their families and traditions are as strong as ever.

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