Sara Nasserzadeh is no stranger to fielding complicated questions about sex. She hosted a radio program for BBC where she answered queries from callers in Afghanistan and Iran about the most private of issues. A psychosexual therapist, couple counselor, and consultant in sexual health policy & education, she came into Big Think today to talk for an upcoming series that launches at the beginning of November. Do arranged marriages impact life in the bedroom? What are the major questions Middle Eastern women grapple with these days? Nasserzadeh, truly a global expert, was here to take our questions.
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Alfa Omega on October 20, 2009, 10:43 PM
Hello,
I am from Kazakhstan and wanted to add my thoughts about this piece of news. Actually the western countries think that the East have problems. Western countries invest money to develop our reservoirs, they adopt our children, they marry our women, and in the end they want to change our cultures. But if someone has different views and wants to do things in his way everybody should respect it, it is an unwritten law of morality. Therefore it is a kind of an insult for East to be treated like a mouse in a lab. Moreover, West has a science for East which is called Oriental Science. But why??? Are we monkeys to make a science on us? I hope nobody will agree that we are, but there will be some that think we are. For them my kind reply is: The East previously was more powerful than the West (for Example Ottoman Empire), or The Great Huns who took over Rome and most of the Europe. Times change and things change – now The West is more powerful. But it is not about making the other side miserable.
I don;t want to upset anybody, but this news above upsetted me. Why we, Eastern people need help on sex? Why? Look for the abortion statistics of USA or UK, or whichever Western country. You will get stunned. The demographics has been falling in Europe for the last two decades. However the number of immigrants is getting more and more. The genuine Europians will soon be replaced by Eastern people in Europe. So why teach us how to make Sex if The West have more problems with abortion and there are many scoolgirls who got pregnant during so called “safe sex”? Why?
It doesn’t make a sense. From the history and the religion Islam our people have already been taught about intime relations and bed activities. Therfore I find this article insulting and all the actions twards this deed.
Kindly
Rachele Antenucci on October 31, 2009, 3:47 AM
I can see both sides of this issue. America has tried to spread “manifest destiny” across the globe to stomp out ancient relgions and cultures to replace them with King Henry VIII inspired Protestant religions (a religion founded on adultery, slander and murder) and to spread it’s non culture by genocide and stealing land and natural resources.
On the flip side, I can see where if someone has to marry some old fart in a prearranged marriage who is a pig in or out of bed, and she is less than satisfied, she should be able to talk to someone about her lousy bed partner. Maybe so that they better communicate to each other how they are feeling so that her husband changes his selfish/bad habits and visa versa. Also, women and children should be able to talk to someone when some garden variety fruitcake man who has a fetish to commit crimes against humanity and assualts them. They should also be able to report them to the police and the justice system in any country. It would be wise to isolate the societal termites that like to spread their vampire disease of pedophillia and sexual assualt, or they should be publicaly beheaded to keep society clean. The USA is just as guilty of being easy on dangerous sociopaths. Especially if they are wealthy and Caucasian.
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