Pamela Mansour. Courtesy of Mauj
Growing up in the Arab world, as a woman, from pre-pubescence onwards, I was often taught to view my body and desires with a sense of shame. For years, it seems the media, schools, doctors, and even friends and relatives have perpetuated the myth that my virtue is tied to my chastity, and that being in a woman s body means that Iâm not entitled to experience pleasure on my own terms and will be subject to a lifetime of painâpain from periods, pain from sex, pain from childbirth.
If I was taught anything in school, it was that sex is only to reproduce and so I was not to have it until marriage, while any deviation from heteronormacy was deemed morally reprehensible. I was also reminded that my family s reputation lies in my appearance (and between my legs), so I must at once look visually appealing to men, but
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