Iranian Matchmaking Site Shut Down For Promoting Prostitution
from the seems-a-bit-extreme dept
Apparently an Iranian matchmaking site, that pretty clearly seemed set up for the purpose of linking up potential husbands and wives, rather than traditional "dating," has been banned in the country for promoting prostitution. The details aren't clear, but it certainly sounds like they viewed any kind of internet matchmaking, even for the purposes of marriage, as somehow "promoting prostitution."![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Re: marriage
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Re: Re: marriage
"honest"?....about what?
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Better
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Marriage
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Marriage in Iran
google on Iran temporary marriage for all the details.
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Re: Marriage in Iran
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/tmpmrig.htm.
If this is even just SLIGHTLY correct, the clerics in Tehran are more full of cr*p than any politician I've ever heard of.
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5 Goats for your daughter?
I know that young women are promised in marriage to older men at early ages in the middle east. I also know that Islam allows many wives per male.
Isn't it a custom in islamic countries to have arranged marriages, and to arrange a suitable dowry?
If so, forcing young women to marry some rich dude in xchange for some goats seems to me a little more "whorey" than two people cross-referencing interests in order to pursue marriage.
But that's just me.
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Kinda Sorry
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Re: Kinda Sorry
Doesn't bother me a bit ;)
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I don't think that just because we live in a different culture it means that we can't question or criticize other people's beliefs.
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Re:
Starvation occurs rather quickly.
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Re: Iran bans site
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From the article:
"Another question asked if the user was looking for permanent marriage, Islamic temporary marriage or "unknown"."
The phrase "Islamic temporary marriage" means pay for play for the night what we in the west call prostitution.
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Jane, You Ignorant Slut
Mike, you should really steer clear of subject matter about which you know nothing. As one poster indicated, temporary marriage is the key here. In Iran especially, it is tantamount to prostitution, where a man "marries" a woman for a few hours or a day or such, then divorces her under Islamic Law by uttering "I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you." Were that it was that easy in the West! Bitch is, the man keeps the kids and the woman keeps the money, so divorce is not entertained lightly in a 'real' marriage. You don't utter that phrase, not even in anger, because once spoken you are legally divorced. You can't take it back.
But a half-day marriage does not cause trauma among the tribesmen, doesn't break any laws, and doesn't cost the man much. It is, however, severely frowned upon, so much so that men travel far from home and family for a fling. The Internet just makes it all the more easy for them, doesn't it? Now they don't need to start looking for a bride when they arrive . . . they already have one lined up.
"Will you do your own homework, Marv."
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Re: Jane, You Ignorant Slut
Geeze, so nice.
Blinkd, the very purpose of this site is to generate discussion. That means I'll post on subjects that I don't know about and expect people to fill in the blanks, as you did here.
If it's something I know well, then I may express an opinion, In this post, I did not express an opinion because I didn't know the details, but did make that clear in the post.
So, I will continue to post on whatever I damn well want to post on.
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You Don't Know Jack Squat
There's a lot of literature about traditional marriage in the Middle East on the Web, in magazines, research studies, etc. Read a few of them before parading your ignorant assumptions.
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Conjecture Kills
Mike, we didn't fill in the blanks here, we wrote the story. Your initial post is a classic example of pseudo-journalism proliferating all over the Web. Sadly, the details were all there, but you are not a trained Middle East scholar and decided instead to take a stab at the subject with some seat-of-the-pants analysis. But as any writer knows, that's a prescription for disaster. So stop whining. Your vignette reeks of opinion and I have zero tolerance for shoddy conjecture.
Details? Here's one for you: name the town in Iran notorious for "Islamic temporary marriage," the Las Vegas of Iran as it were. I suspect if you contacted one of those ladies via their posted e-mail address that's where they would be located.
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Re: Conjecture Kills
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you can say that again.
as for tech community:
religion is abuse of (dis)information.
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