What We Went to War For ~~ Restore "Pleasure" Marriages in Iraq

In the days when it could land him in jail, Rahim Al-Zaidi would whisper details of his muta'a only to his closest confidants and the occasional cousin. Never his wife.

....The 1,400-year-old practice of muta'a — "ecstasy" in Arabic — is as old as Islam itself. It was permitted by the prophet Mohammed as a way to ensure a respectable means of income for widowed women. Pleasure marriages were outlawed under Saddam Hussein but have begun to flourish again....

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'Pleasure marriages' regain popularity in Iraq