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Islam recognizes the strong sexual urge and desire for reproduction and supports a pro-natalist view of procreation. [40] Divorce in Islam can take a variety of forms, some executed by a husband personally and some executed by a religious court on behalf of a plaintiff wife who is successful in her legal divorce petition for valid cause. [41]
[57] [55] In some desires and instincts, of which the sexual instinct is one, this desire often turns into a spiritual thirst, that is, contentment and ending are not in that way. Natural instinct can be saturated, but false desire is unsaturated, especially if it takes the form of spiritual thirst.
Erotic sculptures from Khajuraho temple complex, India. The views of the various different religions and religious believers regarding human sexuality range widely among and within them, from giving sex and sexuality a rather negative connotation to believing that sex is the highest expression of the divine. [1]
However, many Buddhist practitioners disagree on whether masturbation constitutes sexual misconduct or not, where Gampopa (1079-1153) believed that anal or oral sexes with any genders as improper sexual behavior, and Longchenpa (1308-1363) included masturbation along with it as sexual misconduct.
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994) is a non-fiction book by Australian journalist Geraldine Brooks, based on her experiences among Muslim women of the Middle East. It was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages.
El-Rouayheb argues his thesis by stating that essentialist views of homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world generally do not consider the contrast between the two roles in anal intercourse (liwāt): active and passive, the contrast between chaste desire (‘ishq) and sexual desire, and the contrast between anal intercourse and other kinds of sexual acts. [3]
The editors co-wrote the introduction and conclusion. [3] The book contains over 22 essays, [1] which all discuss same sex desire in the Islamic world. Time periods discussed in the essays range from pre-Islamic period to present. [6]
Premarital sex is growing more acceptable for men in Turkey, but is still widely disapproved of for women. A study done in Turkey including 124 undergraduate students and 60 adults showed some of the various views on premarital sex. Women who have engaged in premarital sex are looked at as being less desirable than women who are virgins.