Iranian ayatollahs sanctioning good old temple whores: Mutah - fixed-term marrage

[Kitschum]

While the Iranian theocracy is vile, prostitution is a fact of life in Iran. In poor neighborhoods women - often opium or heroin addicts, another big social issue (the closeness to Afghanistan does this) - offer their services on the streets. Decked out in full Islamic dress of course.

As it is now at least the girls/women have a minimum social protection as it bestows on them some kind of status and allows them to operate within the law. If the 'temporary marriage' provisions were expanded, with mandatory health checks and so on that would obviously be much better. While far from ideal there is an opening here for reform of sexual relations within Islam.

It would be interesting to know how common marriage of very young girls actually are in Iran, as opposed to theoretically. Average age of (first) marriage was 27.7 for men, 23.9 for women (2004) according to,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_at_first_marriage

[Snotty]

"the west does it too, evil west"

yes, government arranges legal and culturally widespread-accepted prostitution houses where you can "marry" girls for one night for certain amount of money. yes, you can "marry" girls for 1 night who are even less than 14 years old if their fathers agree. brilliant.

I missed the important bolded text with my first post, I think I covered it with my second though. I dont condone the prostitution of young girls.


Legalised prostitution can offer some important protections to women who would be involved in that kind of lifestyle.

I have heard stories of royal families of UAE countries having a similar arrangement. whether this is a misinterpretation of the shia tradition I dont know.

[Proteus_MST]

.... But I don't see arranged marriage as 100% wrong, as long as the couple have a choice. Some cultures have that. Now, forced marriages is something entirely else.
....

I agree...
there is nothing wrong with arranged marriages as long as both have the option to say "No" without getting beaten, killed or worse for this decision (and of course as long as they are given the chance to meet in private before making this decision).


I wonder btw. what other muslim nations think of the iranian "prostitution marriages".

(and I wonder what happens to the girls after their contract ended. After all they aren´t virgins anymore and might have a bad reputation from working as prostitutes, so I doubt there would be too many respectable muslim men, who would take them as main wife. All in all it sounds like the only women who would apply for this 2 year contract will be either dumb, desperate, or forced (by their family/fathers))

[Jon Miller]

Er, you think that perhaps legal adults shouldn't be able to consent to sex? Oooookay...

It is possible, in america, that 18 should not be legal adults.

JM

[Robert]

Apart from the young age, it's pathatic because it's terribly hypocrite.
It's just prostitution, using a whole in Allah's laws. What are they going to say to Allah when they have to face him? "Sorry dude, we found a whole in your laws, what we did was perfectly legal according to your legislature. Sorry man, next time make some better laws."

And this hypocrite religion condemns the west for it's liberal atmosphere, and many of it's followers call western women whores because they reveal to much skin on the beach. (or just in daily life).

What's next, are they going to allow all adultery, as long as a condom is being used, because a condom ensures that there's no real contact between both bodies, so factually there's no sex. There is just a penis and a vagine close to each other, with some stuff in between. That's what can happen in a busy subway as well.

[MikeH]

Iranian Mutah-f*ckers!

[rah]

This is really something I would have expected from the RCC. Of course using little boys instead.

[OzzyKP]

This is really something I would have expected from the RCC. Of course using little boys instead.

Get a life.

[rah]

Get a sense of humor

[Hauldren Collider]

Get a new joke

[rah]

True, I should have used the RCC calls them convents.

[Hauldren Collider]

No, seriously, that joke is old. It isn't funny anymore. Learn a new song.

ALL of your "funny" posts on this forum use ONE joke in situational variants. You can't keep saying the same thing and expect it to remain funny for anyone with an even slightly developed sense of humor (so like, not AAHZ).

[Elok]

Only a hundred bucks for having a stranger break your seal of freshness? Cheap bastards.

Oh, and yes, the RCC-boy-diddling meme is long dead. No, I'm not Catholic, it's just played out.

[rah]

Not as long as it still irritates people. What else is the OT for recently.

And we haven't done nun jokes in a while.

[Jon Miller]

Only a hundred bucks for having a stranger break your seal of freshness? Cheap bastards.

Yeah they would get alot more on ebay.

JM