The UAE's most famous marriage counselor, Widad Lootah, was profiled by the AFP yesterday. Infamous for her 2009 book Top Secret: Sexual Guidance for Married Couples, she has received praise from liberal Muslims (and death threats from fundamentalists) for discussing oral sex (okay), the dangers of anal sex (banned in the Quran), female orgasms (definitely okay), the importance of sex ed (necessary), and homosexuality (banned in the Quran).
Lootah speaks in terms of Islam and the Quran, avoiding Western liberal ideas such as women's rights. Her book was even approved by the Mufti of Dubai.
In her book, she wrote of a 52-year old grandmother who had never experienced pleasure with her husband.
"Finally, she discovered orgasm! Imagine, all the time she did not know!"
Lootah, called Um Widad by her clients, aims to break the stigma associated with sex in the UAE and throughout the Arab world, noting "what happens (or doesn't happen) in bed" is the key to a happy marriage.
"Don't shy away from it, don't feel ashamed by it. Enjoy it, you're supposed to," she told to AFP. "It's also about having fun" and its "at the core" of a happy marriage.
"Everything else [aside from anal sex], including all sexually intimate acts below the belly button, is allowed, Feel each other, touch each other, kiss each other all over...it's okay."
Lootah is an advocate for sex ed, saying, "It's very important that we educate them, both males and females, about sex...we have to prepare them psychologically and emotionally for it, and we have to teach them about the act itself."
Lootah
Photo Bryan Denton from the NYT
Lootah speaks in terms of Islam and the Quran, avoiding Western liberal ideas such as women's rights. Her book was even approved by the Mufti of Dubai.
In her book, she wrote of a 52-year old grandmother who had never experienced pleasure with her husband.
"Finally, she discovered orgasm! Imagine, all the time she did not know!"
Lootah, called Um Widad by her clients, aims to break the stigma associated with sex in the UAE and throughout the Arab world, noting "what happens (or doesn't happen) in bed" is the key to a happy marriage.
"Don't shy away from it, don't feel ashamed by it. Enjoy it, you're supposed to," she told to AFP. "It's also about having fun" and its "at the core" of a happy marriage.
"Everything else [aside from anal sex], including all sexually intimate acts below the belly button, is allowed, Feel each other, touch each other, kiss each other all over...it's okay."
Lootah is an advocate for sex ed, saying, "It's very important that we educate them, both males and females, about sex...we have to prepare them psychologically and emotionally for it, and we have to teach them about the act itself."
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