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| Salacious Intent |
Here's my favorite story de jour. A woman in Iran was jailed for attempting to watch a men's volleyball game and then complaining when she was denied the opportunity. (I think it was the complaining that really got her into trouble.) This is from the Huff Post, and not all the juicy details are available, but as I understand the report, foreign women are allowed to watch male volleyball players in international tournaments in Tehran, but Iranian women are forbidden to lay eyes on these males.
One can only imagine the reasoning here. Let me count the ways: Watching males play volleyball would be sexually stimulating for females and that would be contrary to the will of Allah. Foreign women would likely be not Muslims, so their souls are already lost and they can have all the sexual excitement they desire.
Have I inferred improperly here?
Or maybe it's that Iranian ayatollahs believe if women watched men play volleyball they might get ideas about playing volleyball themselves, and who knows where that might lead?
Well, actually, we do know where that might lead.
Women beach volleyball players are just so hot.
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| What A Great Sport |
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| Water Nymph |
What is this thing the ayatollahs have about sex and women? Is it just me, or do fundamentalists seem to spend 90% of their time trying to keep women from thinking about sex?
Maybe it's because I'm just an infidel, but I don't think I spend 90% of my time thinking about sex. Eighty percent max. But, the thing is, it would make me very happy to think women spent that much time fantasizing about sex. It would sort of level the playing field, if you know what I mean. I'd settle for 40% of their time thinking about men. Or women, even. But sex.
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| Can Iranian Men Watch Her? |
There is a telling scene in the Ring series where a gnome like creature (Alberich the Nibelung) is swimming among the gorgeous water nymphs, creatures who are tall and blond or red headed and very attractive, but they spurn him because he is short and dark and pretty ugly and that launches all sorts of passion and mayhem, and it involves race and sex and all sorts of explosive mixtures: See, the women are light colored and the man is dark. You can see why the Nazis loved Wagner.
And maybe it's that sort of thing going on with the ayatollahs. They see themselves as the reviled and rejected gnomes. The want to control the way women's juices flow.
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| Image of Self Loathing |
I'm just guessing here.
I really need help. What do women think? Would Western civilization end tomorrow if women were allowed to give full vent to their sexual desires?
I am pretty slow, I admit, but that sounds pretty good to me.
Gloria Steinem was asked why she had never married and she replied, famously, and droll, "I cannot breed in captivity." Seems to me, and I'm just saying, women have been trying to function in captivity for a long time, and speaking strictly as a male, that is not in anyone's self interest.
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| Fantasy Object |
Oh Phantom, I'm afraid you have it all wrong, the truth is the ayatollahs haven't a thing to worry about because, and I speak with authority when I say this, women NEVER think about sex. Ever. Not 40% of the time--0% of the time. I repeat 0%..Women instead prefer to occupy their minds with thoughts of spring gardening, favorite recipes, quilting, coyotes, that type of thing. In fact,even while engaged in the act, women are not thinking of it, but instead ruminating on the exact date all the snow will melt or how long to cook hard boiled eggs.The hard(intended) reality is were it not for men and their 80% preoccupation with the subject, we as a species would never have made it out of the caves and simply fallen into extinction..So there you have it-Female Sexuality 101. You're welcome....
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Maud,
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate this clarification.
It explains a lot.
A friend once told me she and her friends, all in their mid 40's, referred to the "last chore of the day."
And this was a woman who was considered the epitome of a MILF, among the young studs in the neighborhood.
I found that a very depressing remark, but later decided she was joking. Although, considering her particular husband, I thought, well maybe she was serious.
You, I'm not so sure about.
Phantom