Andrew Sullivan highlights one of the myriad issues facing the Middle east, which has a gigantic surplus of young men who have no jobs and spend their excess spare time being in demonstrations:
An illuminating anecdote from Shereen El Feki, author of Sex and The Citadel:
Safa Tamish, a sex educator who works with Palestinians in Israel, told me that when she runs workshops, participants will use min orali (Hebrew for “oral sex”) and orgazma instead of the respective Arabic terms, jins fammii and nashwa jinsiyya. Even more-basic terminology is problematic; until attending these courses, some participants are unaware that there are, indeed, Arabic words for female genitalia, having been taught to consider such subjects shameful beyond discussion.
This is a far cry from the golden age of Arabic writing on sex. One medieval book, The Language of Fucking, mentions more than 1,000 verbs for having sex.
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