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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (13)8/28/2006 7:55:15 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20106
 
Those Goat-Diapers
The Daily Dish ^ | August 13, 2006 | Andrew Sullivan

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It's hard to get them out of my head. Here's the story if you missed it: Iraqi Islamists are threatening shepherds with violence if they don't clothe their goats with diapers to avoid tempting lonely shepherds. Another facet of the "new Middle East." Yes, it's funny. But it's also revealing about the way fundamentalism and sex interact. What most male-run religious fundamentalisms include is a major exception for the hetero-male sex drive. Sex outside of missionary-position reproduction with legal wife/wives is officially verboten; but when frail male flesh gives in, the blame is almost always the object of desire - not the guy actually responsible. Hence: it's the goat's fault. The way they were dressed, they were asking for it.