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Sex and Lies
Sex and Lies | Leïla Slimani
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The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Adèle In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of sex outside marriage, as well as homosexuality and prostitution, women have only two options for their sexual identities: virgin or wife. Sex and Lies is an essential confrontation with Morocco's intimate demons and a vibrant appeal for the universal freedom to be, to love and to desire.
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... if we adhere to the rules as they stand and to morality as it is taught, we would have to assume that all Morocco's unmarried men are virgins. That all the young men and women, who represent more than half the population, have never had sexual intercourse. Cohabiting partners, homosexuals, prostitutes: all of these therefore could not exist at all.

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Godpants
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This book is small but it is powerful.

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Godpants
Sex and Lies | Leïla Slimani
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I never read The Perfect Nanny, but was very excited to read this non-fiction.

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LTOC
Sex and Lies | Leïla Slimani
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It was fine.