<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498675630373733559</id><updated>2011-04-21T22:10:25.811-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sex in the Middle East</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sexinthemiddleeast.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4498675630373733559/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sexinthemiddleeast.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>creator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05923903286119200374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498675630373733559.post-4184166717266256057</id><published>2009-02-25T15:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T13:26:45.556-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Taboo of Sex in the Middle East</title><content type='html'>Recently, two young men and teenage girl were sentenced in an Iranian court to recieve lashings for having sex outside of wedlock. The woman claimed she was raped and pleaded her case in court but to no avail. She was sentenced to recieve 100 lashings after the court ruled that she voluntarily had sex with the men. The two men were given a lesser sentence of 30 and 40 lashings. The ruling came from a Tehran judge, stating that her accusations of rape and kidnap could have landed the two men a death penalty.&lt;br /&gt;In Iran, accompanied by most countries in the middle east, it is illegal to have sex outside of marriage and more often than not results in capital punishment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4498675630373733559-4184166717266256057?l=sexinthemiddleeast.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sexinthemiddleeast.blogspot.com/feeds/4184166717266256057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sexinthemiddleeast.blogspot.com/2009/02/taboo-of-sex-in-middle-east.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4498675630373733559/posts/default/4184166717266256057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4498675630373733559/posts/default/4184166717266256057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sexinthemiddleeast.blogspot.com/2009/02/taboo-of-sex-in-middle-east.html' title='The Taboo of Sex in the Middle East'/><author><name>creator</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05923903286119200374</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
