BBC Exposes Sex Trade in Iraq
For eleven months reporters for BBC have conducted undercover work to expose an ongoing sex trade in the nation of Iraq. Within the nation, a practice of temporary marriage, known as Mutah, has been an ongoing epidemic. Mutah is an agreement of a temporary marriage between a man & a woman where they agree to be legally married for a short duration (sometimes only hours). It has been an ancient practice in Middle East societies since for many centuries & it's essentially legalized prostitution. Mutah basically enables a man to satisfy any sexual need that he feels that he has and many of the women who engage in it live in societies where they have no rights and are forced into the practice to survive whenever they're abandoned by their husbands or families. From the time of the first Caliphs, leaders in the region have sought to ban this practice. Many people rightfully consider it to be an immoral practice. However, it is ...