For those who don’t know what “Cairo Confessions” is, it is a Facebook page that you send your message to anonymously and their team publishes it. No one knows who sent the message and the entire thing is confidential, people start to comment with their advice and that’s that. Cool? No! I can’t exactly say that I am a loyal follower, but whenever I go through their posts, I have to find a girl or two confessing that they had some sort of physical intimacy with their partners, which is something that is pretty normal between couples. Again, Cool? No! Those girls are practically living in hell, they get the feeling that they are too easy, that their partners are not going to pursue serious relationships with them (aka marriage) because they took what they want. Given our traditions, social norms, religious backgrounds and also being Middle Easterners, physical intimacy is not something that is favorably viewed. Unless you get married, you have to keep your hands off of each other. Girls are stressed and torn between what they should do and what their instincts are leading them to. As…
Cairo Confessions: Girls and the Hell of Premarital Physical Intimacy in Egypt
February 18, 2017
