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From 1975 to 1977 I was stationed in Jordan at the US Embassy. One of my colleagues, a civilian USAF employee, was friends with a Jordanian doctor. One Friday they drove to Damascus to shop. On the way back they passed a Saudia Airlines billboard atop a hill along the road. My colleague saw a sight that completely shocked him. He asked the doctor, "Did I see what I thought I saw behind that billboard?" The doctor said, "Yes, you saw two men with a donkey, one holding its head and the other at its rear with his pants down sodomizing it." The doctor went on to tell my colleague that that sort of thing was very common there because of the absolute prohibition of premarital sex with women, which would result in "honor" killings of women by family members.