Iran Minister favours temporary marriage to relieve lust
Iran's interior minister has challenged a social taboo by urging the revival of the ancient Shia practice of temporary marriage to give young people easier legitimate access to sex.
Moustafa Pourmohammadi, the minister, said the tradition, known as sigheh, should be promoted to offset a trend towards later marriage, which he said was depriving Iran's youth of sexual fulfilment.
The custom of sigheh, which allows couples to establish unions lasting from a few
minutes to 99 years, is permitted under Shia Islam, but has been likened in Iran
to prostitution. But Pourmohammadi, a conservative cleric, described it as
"God's rule" and said it was an acceptable alternative to pre-marital sex, which
is forbidden under Islamic law.
To be fair, the practice has been condemned by Iranian feminists and does, from the article, not appear to be widespread.
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