Make A Sex Film, Die Horribly. Great Place, Iraq.

[ER]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7684866.stm


'The body of a 20-year-old Iraqi girl turned up recently in a small Sunni town south of Tikrit. Her own family had killed her.

She had been having an affair with her cousin, but that was not the problem: cousins often marry in this part of the world. But they had decided to have sex and he had persuaded her to let him film this "just for us".

Of course, he could not resist showing the tape to his friends, to boast.

The pictures started to circulate in this small town and her family found out the couple had been sleeping together.

Honour demanded that they murder her - not him, naturally.'

[ghouck]

That's pretty messed up, but, to play Devil's advocate, their honor system does pretty much exactly what it is supposed to, which is to prevent alltogether the things that here in the U.S. are out of control. We have people like Paris Hilton making sex tapes and them getting out, and really, they care less and less every time it happens. Children have so few role models that are truly positive these days, which is the EXACT same thing OUR parents said, and the result was exactly what they predicted: The bar was raised, and people like Hilton, Spears, Pam Anderson rasied it again. Heck, they interviewed a bunch of high-school and junior high kids and a HUGE number of them felt oral sex was just another form or making out. The point of all this isn't where we are TODAY, but rather what direction and speed it's going. I can't believe how many times I've seen girls/young women in public with clothing or bumbperstickers that say "Pornstar". I agree, Iraq is pretty screwed up with this kind of crap, but the fact that many people in the US find their actions appaling is proof enough for THEM to feel they're RIGHT.

[indianasmith]

In Saudi Arabia, they both would have been put to death.  A few years ago, there was a case of adultery there . . . a man seduced his brother's wife.  She was beheaded; he was sentenced to 40,000 lashes . . . to be administered 100 at a time, at one month intervals.  The poor guy will go insane long before his body dies of the repeated abuse.

I despise adultery, but that is bloody awful.