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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Incarcerating Honor
Author : David Ghanim
Published in: The Virginity Trap in the Middle East
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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There is a strong preoccupation with the sexual purity of girls in Middle Eastern societies to a level of obsession developing into a cultural and social cult of virginity. Abu-Odeh argues that the discourse on gender and the discourse on virginity in Arab culture crisscross so intricately that they are hardly distinguishable.1 Bouhdiba states that virginity is the object of a veritable cult and an essential element of Arab Muslim erotic life.2 The virginity cult is deeply ingrained in cultural practices in the region.