memo to the world: I don't care if islam has a doctor al-Ruth. I didn't care 20 years ago, I don't care now.
What does Ms. Kotb say about the clitorectomies that are all the rage in Egypt and SA? Perhaps that's a contributing factor to the sex problems leading to divorce?
I didn't read the article (wsj requires registration)
Learning about Islam's bizarre sexual obsessions is useful --"Nine Parts of Desire", the Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks (who even has a long chapter on Ayatollah Khomeni and his wife)--much recommended.
***"Sexual relations are like a gas station ... If the gas is no good, the car will break.***
Not a very good analogy. How about if the hose is too short the gas runs on the ground.
or-- If you grease it , it will go.
Or-- put it on the rack and lets see the undercarriage.
Most sexual relations in the islamic world are likely homosexual for all the taboos and restraints placed on and about women.
many a troubled marriage in the Arab world
No, I don't believe it! Why, how could that master culture of perfection possibly have ANY problems, particularly with marriages? Afterall, they KNOW everything and they are PERFECT in all ways, so one would only assume that they (particularly the women, who are so c-a-r-e-d for) would be happy, happy, happy! (sarc.)
I'd say it's because the researchers haven't figured out how to speak camel or goat yet.
How do the terrorists recruit 20 year old boys to spend a year in the United States, go to school and learn how to fly a 747, and get them to hijack planes and fly them into the twin towers. Is real sex and love in Muslim society so terrible that the boys chose the imaginary pleasures of dying in crash and fire and spending eternity searching infinity for 72 virgins? Freud is right.