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Hating Valentine’s Day

Feb 15, 2016 10:10 am By Jamie Glazov

jihadi and Jane Fonda

Yesterday, February 14, was Valentine’s Day, the sacred day that intimate companions mark to celebrate their love and affection for one another. If you’re thinking about making a study of how couples celebrate this day, the Muslim world and the milieus of the radical Left are not the places you should be spending your time. Indeed, it’s pretty hard to outdo jihadists and “progressives” when it comes to the hatred of Valentine’s Day. And this hatred is precisely the territory on which the contemporary romance between the Left and Islamic fanaticism is formed.

The train is never late: every year that Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world erupts with ferocious rage, with its leaders doing everything in their power to suffocate the festivity that comes with the celebration of private romance. Imams around the world thunder against Valentine’s every year — and the celebration of the day itself is literally outlawed in Islamist states.

This year, for example, Pakistan banned Valentine’s Day as an “insult” to Islam and warned that “strict” action would be taken against anyone daring to celebrate the day in any part of Islamabad. While in the past, Valentine’s Day activities were disrupted by Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s main religious party, it was the first time this year that the state actually got involved to ban celebration of the day. In Iran, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia this year, and as always, Valentine’s Day was outlawed. Under the Islamic regime in Iran, for instance, any sale or promotion of Valentine’s Day related items, including the exchange of gifts, flowers and cards, was illegal. The Iranian police warned retailers, as they do every year, against the promotion of Valentine’s Day celebrations.

Last year, Islamic religious leaders and officials in Malaysia warned Muslims against celebrating Valentine’s Day. In Saudi Arabia, the morality police, as always, outlawed the sale of all Valentine’s Day items, forcing shopkeepers to remove any red items, because the day is considered a Christian holiday.

Malaysia and Saudi Arabia are carrying the torch for the Indonesian Ulema Council in Dumai, Riau, and for the Education, Youth and Sport Agency in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, both of which issue a dire warning each year to people against celebrating Valentine’s Day, stating that the Day of Love “is against Islam.” This is because, as the Indonesian Ulema Council 2011 judgment explained, Valentine’s Day takes young people into a “dark world.”

Malaysia’s State mufti chief assistant Mat Jais Kamos always keeps his mind focused on that dark world and so, in 2014 for example, a few days before Valentine’s Day, he ordered young people to stay clear of celebrating the Day of Love: “The celebration emphasizes the relationship between two individuals rather than the love between family members or married couples,” he affirmed, and department officials backed up his command by distributing leaflets to remind Muslims of the 2006 ban on Valentine’s Day issued by the state fatwa council.

In Islamic Uzbekistan, several universities always make sure that students actually sign contracts promising not to celebrate Valentine’s.

In Pakistan on Valentine’s Day in 2013, supporters of Jamat-e-Islami took to the streets in Peshawar to vehemently denounce the Day of Love. Demonizing it as “un-Islamic,” the Muslim protestors shouted that the day had “spread immodesty in the world.” Shahzad Ahmed, the local leader of the student wing of Jamat-e-Islami, declared that the organization will not “allow” any Valentine’s Day functions, warning that if Pakistani law enforcement did not prevent Pakistanis from holding such functions, that the Jamat-e-Islami would stop them “in our own way.” Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a leader in Jamat-e-Islami, calls Valentine’s a “shameful day.”

These Islamist forces in Pakistan cannot, of course, completely succeed in preventing couples from showing love to each other on this special day, and so many Pakistanis still clandestinely celebrate Valentine’s Day and exchange presents in secret.

All these Islamic outcries against Valentine’s Day reflect myriad other efforts to suffocate the day of love throughout the Muslim War. For instance, in Aceh province in Indonesia every year, Muslim clerics issue stern warnings to Muslims against observing Valentine’s Day. Tgk Feisal, general secretary of the Aceh Ulema Association (HUDA), has stated that “It is haram for Muslims to observe Valentine’s Day because it does not accord with Islamic Sharia.” He has stressed that the government must watch out for youths participating in Valentine’s Day activities in Aceh. One can only imagine what happens to the guilty parties.

As mentioned, the Saudis consistently punish the slightest hint of celebrating Valentine’s Day. The Kingdom and its religious police always officially issue a stern warning that anyone caught even thinking about Valentine’s Day will suffer some of the most painful penalties of Sharia Law. This is typical of the Saudis of course. As Daniel Pipes has documented, the Saudi regime takes a firm stand against Valentine’s every year, and the Saudi religious police monitor stores selling roses and other gifts. They arrest women for wearing red on that day. Every year the Saudis announce that, starting the week of Valentine’s and until a certain day in the future, it is illegal for a merchant to sell any item that is red, or that in any way hints of being connected to Valentine’s Day. As Claude Cartaginese has reported, any merchant in Saudi Arabia found selling such items as red roses, red clothing of any kind (especially dresses), toys, heart-shaped products, candy, greeting cards or any items wrapped in red, has to destroy them or face the wrath of Saudi justice.

Christian overseas workers living in Saudi Arabia from the Philippines and other countries always take extra precautions, heeding the Saudis’ warning to them specifically to avoid greeting anyone with the words “Happy Valentine’s Day” or exchanging any gift that reeks of romance. A spokesman for a Philippine workers group has commented:

We are urging fellow Filipinos in the Middle East, especially lovers, just to celebrate their Valentine’s Day secretly and with utmost care.

The Iranian despots, meanwhile, as mentioned above, consistently try to make sure that the Saudis don’t outdo them in annihilating Valentine’s Day. Iran’s “morality” police vehemently order shops to remove heart-and-flower decorations and images of couples embracing on this day — and anytime around this day.

Typical of this whole pathology in the Islamic world was a development witnessed back on February 10, 2006, when activists of the radical Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Community) went on a rampage in Srinagar, the main city of the Indian portion of Kashmir. Some two dozen black-veiled Muslim women stormed gift and stationery shops, burning Valentine’s Day cards and posters showing couples together.

In the West, meanwhile, leftist feminists are not to be outdone by their jihadi allies in reviling — and trying to exterminate — Valentine’s Day. Throughout all Women’s Studies Programs on American campuses, for instance, you will find the demonization of this day, since, as the disciples of Andrea Dworkin angrily explain, the day is a manifestation of how capitalist and homophobic patriarchs brainwash and oppress women and push them into spheres of powerlessness.

As an individual who spent more than a decade in academia, I was privileged to witness this war against Valentine’s Day up close and personal. Feminist icons like Jane Fonda, meanwhile, help lead the assault on Valentine’s Day in society at large. As David Horowitz has documented, Fonda has led the campaign to transform this special day into “V-Day” (“Violence against Women Day”) — which is, when it all comes down to it, a day of hate, featuring a mass indictment of men.

So what exactly is transpiring here? What explains this hatred of Valentine’s Day by leftist feminists and jihadis? And how and why does it serve as the sacred bond that brings the Left and Islam together into its feast of hate?

The core issue at the foundation of this phenomenon is that Islam and the radical Left both revile the notion of private love, a non-tangible and divine entity that draws individuals to each other and, therefore, distracts them from submitting themselves to a secular deity.

The highest objective of both Islam and the radical Left is clear: to shatter the sacred intimacy that a man and a woman can share with one another, for such a bond is inaccessible to the order. History, therefore, demonstrates how Islam, like Communism, wages a ferocious war on any kind of private and unregulated love. In the case of Islam, the reality is epitomized in its monstrous structures of gender apartheid and the terror that keeps it in place. Indeed, female sexuality and freedom are demonized and, therefore, forced veiling, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, honor killings and other misogynist monstrosities become mandatory parts of the sadistic paradigm.

The puritanical nature of totalist systems (whether Fascist, Communist, or Islamist) is another manifestation of this phenomenon. In Stalinist Russia, sexual pleasure was portrayed as unsocialist and counter-revolutionary. More recent Communist societies have also waged war on sexuality — a war that Islam, as we know, wages with similar ferocity. These totalist structures cannot survive in environments filled with self-interested, pleasure-seeking individuals who prioritize devotion to other individual human beings over the collective and the state. Because the leftist believer viscerally hates the notion and reality of personal love and “the couple,” he champions the enforcement of totalitarian puritanism by the despotic regimes he worships.

The famous twentieth-century novels of dystopia, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, all powerfully depict totalitarian society’s assault on the realm of personal love in its violent attempt to dehumanize human beings and completely subject them to its rule. In Zamyatin’s We, the earliest of the three novels, the despotic regime keeps human beings in line by giving them license for regulated sexual promiscuity, while private love is illegal. The hero breaks the rules with a woman who seduces him — not only into forbidden love but also into a counterrevolutionary struggle. In the end, the totality forces the hero, like the rest of the world’s population, to undergo the Great Operation, which annihilates the part of the brain that gives life to passion and imagination, and therefore spawns the potential for love. In Orwell’s 1984, the main character ends up being tortured and broken at the Ministry of Truth for having engaged in the outlawed behavior of unregulated love. In Huxley’s Brave New World, promiscuity is encouraged — everyone has sex with everyone else under regime rules, but no one is allowed to make a deep and independent private connection.

Yet as these novels demonstrate, no tyranny’s attempt to turn human beings into obedient robots can fully succeed. There is always someone who has doubts, who is uncomfortable, and who questions the secular deity — even though it would be safer for him to conform like everyone else. The desire that therefore overcomes the instinct for self-preservation is erotic passion. And that is why love presents such a threat to the totalitarian order: it dares to serve itself. It is a force more powerful than the all-pervading fear that a totalitarian order needs to impose in order to survive. Leftist and Muslim social engineers, therefore, in their twisted and human-hating imaginations, believe that the road toward earthly redemption (under a classless society or Sharia) stands a chance only if private love and affection is purged from the human condition.

This is exactly why, forty years ago, as Peter Collier and David Horowitz demonstrate in Destructive Generation, the Weather Underground not only waged war against American society through violence and mayhem, but also waged war on private love within its own ranks. Bill Ayers, one of the leading terrorists in the group, argued in a speech defending the campaign:

Any notion that people can have responsibility for one person, that they can have that ‘out’ — we have to destroy that notion in order to build a collective; we have to destroy all ‘outs,’ to destroy the notion that people can lean on one person and not be responsible to the entire collective.

Thus, the Weather Underground destroyed any signs of monogamy within its ranks and forced couples, some of whom had been together for years, to admit their “political error” and split apart. Like their icon Margaret Mead, they fought the notions of romantic love, jealousy, and other “oppressive” manifestations of one-on-one intimacy and commitment. This was followed by forced group sex and “national orgies,” whose main objective was to crush the spirit of individualism. This constituted an eerie replay of the sexual promiscuity that was encouraged (while private love was forbidden) in We, 1984, and Brave New World.

It becomes completely understandable, therefore, why leftist believers were so inspired by the tyrannies in the Soviet Union, Communist China, Communist North Vietnam and many other countries. As sociologist Paul Hollander has documented in his classic Political Pilgrims, fellow travelers were especially enthralled with the desexualized dress that the Maoist regime imposed on its citizens. This at once satisfied the leftist’s desire for enforced sameness and the imperative of erasing attractions between private citizens. The Maoists’ unisex clothing finds its parallel in fundamentalist Islam’s mandate for shapeless coverings to be worn by both males and females. The collective “uniform” symbolizes submission to a higher entity and frustrates individual expression, mutual physical attraction, and private connection and affection. And so, once again, the Western leftist remains not only uncritical, but completely supportive of — and enthralled in — this form of totalitarian puritanism.

This is precisely why leftist feminists today do not condemn the forced veiling of women in the Islamic world; because they support everything that forced veiling engenders. It should be no surprise, therefore, that Naomi Wolf finds the hijab “sexy”. And it should be no surprise that Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Unni Wikan, found a solution for the high incidence of Muslims raping Norwegian women: the rapists must not be punished, but Norwegian women must veil themselves.

Valentine’s Day is a “shameful day” for the Muslim world and for the radical Left. It is shameful because private love is considered obscene, since it threatens the highest of values: the need for a totalitarian order to attract the complete and undivided attention, allegiance and veneration of every citizen. Love serves as the most lethal threat to the tyrants seeking to build Sharia and a classless utopia on earth, and so these tyrants yearn for the annihilation of every ingredient in man that smacks of anything that it means to be human.

And so perhaps it is precisely on reflecting yesterday’s Valentine’s Day that we are reminded of the hope that we can realistically have in our battle with the ugly and pernicious unholy alliance that seeks to destroy our civilization.

This day reminds us that we have a weapon, the most powerful arsenal on the face of the earth, in front of which despots and terrorists quiver and shake, and sprint from in horror into the shadows of darkness, desperately avoiding its piercing light.

That arsenal is love.

And no Maoist Red Guard or Saudi fascist cop ever stamped it out — no matter how much they beat and tortured their victims. And no al-Qaeda jihadist in Pakistan or Feminazi on any American campus will ever succeed in suffocating it, no matter how ferociously they lust to disinfect man of who and what he is.

Love will prevail.

Long Live Valentine’s Day.

*

To get the whole story on Islam’s and the Left’s war on private love, see Jamie Glazov’s book United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror.

Jamie Glazov is the editor of Frontpagemag.com, the author of United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror and the host of the web tv show, The Glazov Gang.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 10:30 am

    Most feminists were merely nonplus at the prospect of Valentine’s Day until they heard that Muslims were against it.

    Therefore they will now wish to cultivate this from a pet peeve into a cause célèbre.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 15, 2016 at 11:38 am

      I presume Feminists are fighting chivalry in general. Valentine’s Day is rather chivalrous.

      • LR says

        Feb 15, 2016 at 4:22 pm

        While many ‘older feminists’ I know would have no problem when a man shows courtesy to a woman, I recently heard a radio commentator ask his younger female cohorts, “Would it be sexist if I gave up my seat on the bus for you”? ‘Yes’, they said.

        It was very disheartening to hear that.

        The question came about over some topic or event, I do not recall.

        Don’t worry though, Valentines day is still alive and well.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 10:40 am

    Side Note
    In order not to offence Jane Fonda and the tree hugging left, all husband’s should buy just one re-usable Valentines card and use sticky notes to indicate each year. In case of divorce the card is transferable.
    Jane Fonda’s husband should not buy a useless card that she would not appreciate.
    Instead a new toaster oven and non-stick frying pan would be much more practical and considerate to Jane’s needs so Jane can enjoy playing homemaker in making her husband his morning breakfast.

    • Jimmy Murphy says

      Feb 16, 2016 at 5:49 am

      I don’t listen to North Vietnamese Sympathizer Traitors like Hanoi Jane Fonda.

  3. billybob says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 10:44 am

    Disturbing

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 10:55 am

    Jamie quotes Bill Ayers: “destroy the notion that people can lean on one person and not be responsible to the entire collective.”

    That’s what both cultural Marxists and Islamists want…the exaltation of the collective (Ummah) over the individual.

    Individualism is the greatest crime, hence the war against private love.

    Shame on Fonda for trying to turn the day of love and appreciation into a day of hate!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 16, 2016 at 12:24 am

      Yes, Mortimer–the expression of love is intrinsic to the *individual*.

      There is nothing collectivist about romantic love. Both Islam and Communism insist on the individual subsuming themselves to the will of the “Ummah” or the “people”.

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 11:07 am

    MO asks: can we “possibly hope to live in peace with any follower of Islam?”

    Yes, but only if they give lip service to Islam…as most Muslims do. Most Muslims indite Mohammed by refusing to take him as a role model.

  6. Linde Barrera says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 11:31 am

    Very succinct, interesting and truthful article. Thank you Dr. Jamie Glazov.

    • ECAW says

      Feb 15, 2016 at 12:45 pm

      Very much agree. Thanks to JG for giving information I didn’t know existed before.

  7. Tiredofstupid says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 11:32 am

    Fonda was a traitor nearly 50 years ago in viet nam and should have been prosecuted then. I don’t see where anything has changed with her.

  8. Angemon says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 11:53 am

    Wait. Where’s the video? Say whaaaaaat? I have to read like, words and stuff?

    Just kidding. Great article, Mr. Glazov, and on a subject that its easy to present to regular people oblivious to what the totalitarian ideologies of radical left and islam have in store for them.

    As David Horowitz has documented, Fonda has led the campaign to transform this special day into “V-Day” (“Violence against Women Day”) — which is, when it all comes down to it, a day of hate, featuring a mass indictment of men.

    This is a textbook example of radical leftism action. Rather than creating an alternative day to bring up awareness of violence against women (because who cares if men are the victims of violence, right?), they have to co-opt an existing day and transform it to match their draconian views. It’s the same as with feminism: it went from “look, we want women not to be discriminated against because of their sex – we should be able to pursuit careers in whatever field we want if we choose to do so” to “I’m the victim here, so do as I say, or else”. Recently, Germaine Greer, an old-school feminist was called a misogynist because she stated that “transgendered women” are not women.

    The radical left in all its manifestations has been kicking people out of their private club for decades, and now their private club no longer looks the illustrious space where intellectuals get together to discuss how to make the world a better place. Instead, it now looks the place where a handful of crackpot lunatics rave and rant about how everything is offensive to them, and how they can get back at those who offended them.

    Radical left, in a nutshell:

  9. Kevin says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    Its sad how the most evil, intolerant worldview is bullying the entire world. All Muslims are in this together, make no mistake about that, where do you think the so-called jihadists get their ideology, Islam. Muhammad was a mass murdering, iliterate pedophile (those are facts, not immature insults) this is the evil that Satan has produced. Imagine these folks calling others intolerant as they go around the globe killing, raping etc. They all have a job in their global conquest, some come and lull the folks into beliving their lies (Muslims are trained to lie with efficiency) then the others come with their weapons and hate. Where are the feminists crying about this religions treatment of women????

    • LR says

      Feb 15, 2016 at 4:46 pm

      No, not, “all Muslims’ are in this together”. Please remember that many Muslims lose their lives trying to live educated, decent lives, and are harmed, or killed by their own evil, fanatical Muslim countrymen.

      Many of them sometimes work with Christians, NGO’s and such.These people need all the support they can get.

      Just one example. (Not sure if he classifies himself as ‘Muslim’, but I sure give him credit for courage, and bravery).

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Naser_Sarmast

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 16, 2016 at 12:27 am

        Individual Muslims are decent people only to the extent that they do not practice Islam.

  10. Msgtdubb says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    I don’t believe isis is capable of emotions. They are just inhuman entities that must kill and destroy all things lovely. Jane Fonda is not capable of being loved by people who remember her romp through Hanoi, while American soldiers were being killed. If she would have aimed her vitriol at the Johnson administration, that forced our troops to be there, she may have been forgiven. No forgiveness for a traitor.

    • LR says

      Feb 15, 2016 at 4:52 pm

      Well, since some brought up Jane Fonda, Here is one site about the event.

      http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

  11. jayell says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    Why are we bothering with all this garbage? Basically, they will deliberately find some (normally spurious) reason to ‘hate’ anything to do with the ‘opposition’ – i.e., everyone apart from THEM (the definition of bigotry?). Makes them feel ‘exclusive’, or ‘superior’, or something. If it’s not St. Valentine’s Day that they will hate it’s Christmas, or Easter, or anything Christian, or Jewish, or Hindu, or Sikh, or Buddhist or birthdays generally, or any religious building that’s not a mosque, or music, or football, or pork, ham and bacon, or alcohol (when Allah’s not asleep), or anything that’s not got the stupid ‘halal’ mark on it (which can be anything from food to delivery vans when they can screw money out of the kuffar), or ‘democracy’ (until they get themselves elected somewhere and can embezzle public funds), or co-educational schools (because the dirty little swines can’t keep their disgusting hands to themselves), or comics, or going to Mars (I presume the Moon as well, because we can’t have people landing on their god – but the Americans already got there and planted their flag, which is no doubt why the muzzies are so touchy – their Deity – now the 51st. State!!!! – HORROR!). Look, these intellectually-challenged p*llocks are just making it up as they go along. It’s basically anything, but ANYTHING, to create a greivance as a ‘righteous’ excuse tio throw their weight around – as usual. Just to show what ‘nice’ people they are. Not.

  12. DRHazard says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    Muslims instinctively understand that the greatest threat to their religion comes not from the CIA, or Zionist Jews or the “West” but from from a mind no longer forcing itself into the ugly jail cell called Islam. In this case it’s the mental prison created when someone sacrifices normal romantic affection for an unworkable set of outdated rules that dehumanize people.

  13. Wellington says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 6:31 pm

    There is no fun in Islam. There is also no romantic love in Islam. Ditto twice over here for what passes for feminism nowadays. No wonder modern feminists look the other way or actually support Islam. Yes, no wonder.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 16, 2016 at 12:28 am

      I hope you and your wife had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, Wellington.

      • Wellington says

        Feb 16, 2016 at 1:28 pm

        Thank you, gravenimage, and back to you here.

  14. emma says

    Feb 15, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    Excellent article, i never saw it that way, always knew the leftists and islamists were in bed together, but your ability to link the two together by understanding the symbolism of their conflicts around love, gave me a new understanding. It’s no wonder that christianity is called the religion of love, though it’s more a general love; individual love between a man and women go beyond any religion and is guided purely by instinct, feeling, and natural spiritual abandon.

  15. gravenimage says

    Feb 16, 2016 at 12:18 am

    Hating Valentine’s Day
    ………………….

    There is no love in Islam–and the Left isn’t big on it, either.

    The truth is that being free to love–to decide whom to love and whom to marry–is one of the most fundamental freedoms of all. There is nothing more personal and more intrinsic to who we are and what we value–not even the choosing of meaningful work.

    I join with Jamie Glazov in saying, “Long Live Valentine’s Day!”.

  16. mrbiggs--- says

    Feb 16, 2016 at 7:33 am

    I’ve decided to take this feast back……
    St. Valentine’s day is a Catholic feast.
    On the day this year, I honored St. Valentinius of Rome with candles.
    He was without question was an actual Roman person; there’s some confusion about his ‘real’ identity, but the two individuals mentioned in martyrologies for Feb. 14 are surely the same man. A third Valentine was an African martyr, a different holy person. All the other ‘Valentines’ mentioned for other feast days are other people, also. It’s quite simple.
    He was a strong man of great sanctity,
    and was martyred c.269 outside the Flaminian Gate of Rome, married Christian couples
    clandestinely, and miraculously healed a girl’s blindness—either his jailer’s or his judge’s daughter.
    He left a note for this girl in his cell, as he was taken to execution, marked “Your Valentine.”
    This is not to be refuted…
    + St. Valentinius of Rome, ora pro nobis +
    We love you…

  17. mrbiggs--- says

    Feb 16, 2016 at 7:43 am

    + St. Valentinius of Rome, pray for us. +

    (martyred outside the Flaminian Gate c. 269 in Rome.)

  18. mrbiggs--- says

    Feb 16, 2016 at 10:02 am

    + St. Valentinius of Rome, died c. 269.

  19. Mary C says

    Feb 16, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    What an electrifying, brilliant piece connecting Islam with the radical Left by discussing hatred of Valentine’s Day by Jamie Glazov! Just why the Left embraces Islam has been a source of puzzlement to me for some time now, as I don’t follow the radical Left, so they were a mystery to me. Thanks to Robert Spencer, Islam is no longer a mystery to me. I did read Brave New World and 1984 decades ago; I’d forgotten the part about forbidden individual romantic love and the encouragement of promiscuity. It’s good to be reminded. I tend to get truly, madly, deeply smitten for men I learn a new skill from. I’m wistfully envious of the lucky women who can form a long-term partnership with one man and keep the flame of romance/Eros alive. The opposite of the notion of a man and a woman being solely together in marriage to beget and raise children and for her to be under his thumb (the Muslim notion, and let’s face it, of some other religions right up to the present day too) is the notion that they’re together to help each other become individuals and give something to the world from that individuality. And the erotic component is definitely in the mix too, whether expressed physically or not.

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