Women should stay virgin till marriage, says an Australian politician who for 25 years believed he fathered a son with his university girlfriend.
Tony Abbott, a liberal leader, suggested in an interview to be published in Australian Women’s Weekly that men and women should try and adhere to “the rules” when it comes to sex before [...]
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Don’t have sex before marriage: Australian politician
January 25th, 2010 |
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Saudis shut TV offices in sex row
August 9th, 2009 |
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The Jeddah offices of a Lebanon-based TV station which broadcast an interview with a Saudi man boasting about his sexual conquests have been closed.
Saudi Arabian authorities said the offices had been shut by order of the country’s deputy prime minister.
The 32-year-old Saudi man’s interview shocked conservative Saudi society, prompting calls for him to be punished.
Mazen Abdul Jawad talked about his sexual conquests and how he picks up women in the kingdom.
A spokesman at the information ministry confirmed the decision to close the offices of the LBC TV station in the kingdom’s commercial capital.
"It was because of the interview with Mazen Abdul Jawad," Abdul Rahman al-Hazzaa said, according to AFP news agency.
Discreet society
Saudi media say officials are considering whether to charge Mr Abdul Jawad over the interview, which appeared on a programme called Red Lines and challenged Saudi taboos.
The Saudi daily newspaper al-Watan said authorities had also closed other offices of the channel, which is mainly owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Pre-marital sex is illegal in Saudi Arabia and Mr Abdul Jawad could face imprisonment or flogging.
Saudi Arabia is not only the most conservative society in the Arab world, it is also the most discreet.
If people break its strict Islamic code they face punishment – lashes or imprisonment for drinking or non-marital sex.
These rules are flouted by locals as well as expatriates, correspondents say, but almost everyone who breaks the rules keeps quiet about it and hopes they will not be found out.
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Saudi sex boasts man apologises
July 27th, 2009 |
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By Sebastian Usher
BBC News
A Saudi man who boasted about his sexual conquests on an Arabic TV station has tearfully apologised as calls mounted for him to be punished.
Mazen Abdul Jawad talked about his sexual conquests, starting with a neighbour when he was 14, and how he picks up women in the kingdom.
Saudi media say officials are considering whether to charge him.
Pre-marital sex is illegal in Saudi Arabia and Mr Abdul Jawad could face imprisonment or flogging.
Discreet society
Saudi Arabia is not only the most conservative society in the Arab world, it is also the most discreet.
If people break its strict Islamic code they face punishment – lashes or imprisonment for drinking or non-marital sex.
These rules are flouted by locals as well as expatriates, but almost everyone who breaks the rules keeps quiet about it and hopes they won’t be found out.
So it is unusual for a Saudi man to appear on TV freely discussing the ways in which he has transgressed the Saudi code.
Mr Abdul Jawad agreed to be interviewed for the Red Lines show on the popular Lebanese TV station, LBC.
The show deals with taboos in the Arab world.
Bluetooth dating
Mr Abdul Jawad talked openly about his sexual conquests, starting when he was 14.
He also described how he used the Bluetooth function on his mobile to meet Saudi women.
Religious authorities have tried to ban such devices for this very reason.
Complaints have now been filed against Mr Abdul Jawad in his local court and online Saudi forums are full of denunciations of his behaviour.
He says he is considering suing LBC for misrepresenting his views.</p
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India brides had ‘virginity test’
July 13th, 2009 |
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By Faisal Mohammad Ali in Bhopal
India’s National Commission for Women wants Madhya Pradesh state to explain why hundreds of would-be brides reportedly underwent virginity tests.
All the women who took part in a state-run mass wedding last month were forced to take the test, witnesses say.
Several of the women later complained that they had found the exercise shameful and humiliating.
Officals deny virginity tests took place. They said the tests had been to ensure the women were not pregnant.
In India, a bride’s virginity is highly prized and pre-marital sex is frowned upon.
‘Dubious’
According to reports, young women who had signed up for the mass marriage ceremony in the city of Shahdol, 600km (373 miles) from the state capital, Bhopal, were told about the test when they reached the venue.
"Such a shameful act where girls had to reportedly undergo tests to prove their chastity to avail the government’s financial aid were sinful "
Girija Vyas,
National Commission for Women
Almost all of them were from poor, tribal families.
Eyewitnesses said the women had to queue up before undergoing an extensive physical examination by a female doctor before they were given a special badge which allowed them to participate in the ceremony.
Several of the women were quoted as saying that they had at first refused to submit to the test – but were told by officials that they would receive their wedding gifts worth 6,500 rupees (about $132) only if they took the test.
"Such a shameful act where girls had to reportedly undergo tests to prove their chastity to avail the government’s financial aid were sinful and could not be tolerated in a sane society," the chairperson of the Indian National Commission for Women, Girija Vyas, said.
But a senior administration official in Shahdol, Neeraj Dubey, denied there had been any virginity tests.
He told the BBC that the number of marriage candidates who had turned up at the venue had far exceeded initial applications.
Many of the would-be brides did not have proper documents and some looked "dubious", he said. Therefore, officials present had asked the doctor to examine the candidates, he said.
Officials say pregnancy tests were introduced after a woman gave birth during an earlier mass wedding ceremony.
Mass marriages, generally organised by social organisations, are common in India where the custom of dowry is still widespread.
The scheme in Madhya Pradesh was started in 2006 by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan to aid girls from poor families to get married.
The scheme helped Mr Chauhan’s Bharatiya Janata Party win many votes in state assembly elections last year.</p
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.