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March 7, 2004

Sex in the Middle East

Fine article from Foreign Policy on "The True Clash of Civilizations" notes:

Samuel Huntington was only half right. The cultural fault line that divides the West and the Muslim world is not about democracy but sex. According to a new survey, Muslims and their Western counterparts want democracy, yet they are worlds apart when it comes to attitudes toward divorce, abortion, gender equality, and gay rights--which may not bode well for democracy's future in the Middle East.

My forthcoming Romance on the Road will make this point in a somewhat different way. Sexual repression in the Middle East has contributed to both to fervid fundamentalism and bottled-up young males pursuing tourist females.