On Sex & Islam
The complications of being sexual and a person of faith
“Here is the compassion in the face, that flowed toward the sinner and never the sinned-against, that forgave before justice had even been meted out.”
—Patricia Lockwood
The Execution of Mansur Al Hallaj, circa 1600
As a young girl, I wasn’t aware of what sex was, but I understood the viscerality, the way touch could provoke unwarranted pleasure, of stran…
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