No sex manual for Muslims in Malaysia says government

The Obdeient Wives Club recently published a sex manual for pious Muslim couples on how to have great sex within Islam. Now the government, after looking the book over....carefully, at night, for long hours by themselves..have ruled it to be illegal and against the teachings of islam. It may confuse some about the role of sex in Islam, so banned it becomes.

I guess the Kama Sutra is right out as well.

From The Guardian November 3 by Sam Jones

Malaysia bans Obedient Wives Club sex manual

The Malaysian government is to ban a sex manual written by the head of an Islamic sect that teaches

women to "be submissive and keep their spouses happy in the bedroom", for fear it could cause religious

confusion.

In the 115-page book – entitled Islamic Sex – the founder of the Obedient Wives Club outlines her

experiences of, and opinions on, marriage. It has passages on how couples should physically and

spiritually approach sex, and claims that most women only satisfy 10% of their husbands' sexual needs.

Club leaders, who argue that a wife should serve as a "good sex worker" and a "whore" to her husband,

showed the book to journalists last month in an effort to dispel what they called misconceptions that it was

obscene and demeaning to women.

They said the book, which contains no explicit photographs, was intended to be a spiritual guide read

exclusively by club members to help them better understand sex.

Many Malaysians have denounced the club, saying it makes a mockery of modern gender roles in a

country where women hold prominent posts in both the government and the private sector.

A spokesman for the home ministry said the government's Islamic affairs department had studied the

manual and recommended a ban on the grounds that it may confuse Malaysian Muslims about what

constitutes acceptable religious teaching.

People caught in possession of it could be fined up to 5,000 ringgit (£995), the spokesman said, and

anyone who makes copies for sale could be imprisoned for three years and fined 20,000 ringgit.

Representatives of the club did not respond to calls made to them on Thursday. The club is believed to

have at least 800 members in Malaysiaand has branches in Indonesia, Singapore, Jordan and Britain.

Many members are in polygamous marriages, insisting the practice helps husbands to avoid committing

adultery.

The club's international vice-president, Rohaya Mohamad, explained the club's provocative

pronouncements in an interview with a Malaysian paper earlier this year. "Eve was created because

Adam had needs," she told the Star. "Men have [sexual] needs which they can't control. And if the needs

are not fulfilled, men will find another woman. God created them like that."

Her comments have been echoed by Darlan Zaini, co-founder of the Singapore club, who said: "In Islam,

if the husband wants sex and the wife is not in the mood, she has to give in to him. If not, the angels

will curse her. This is not good for the family."

That is from the hadiths:

"If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning" (Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460)."