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I had a Saudi woman (a friend of my long-ago emigrated Iranian aunt) assert to me once that many women liked the burkas because it meant it was actually very easy to go where they pleased, and specifically have affairs with pretty much anyone they wanted without being afraid of "being seen" in an inappropriate place.
I said, "Okay, but what about when you get caught?" She said only the really stupid ones get caught, and only the really "redneck" ones had families that would turn them in themselves. And she pointed out that men kill their women over affairs here all the time, it just happens to be illegal. "But who cares if he goes to jail or not after you are dead?"
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