Legal prostitution in Iran.What you see here is called “sigheh” - a legal temporary prostitution where an imam will legalize the marriage as temporary in exchange for money - as we call it prostitution.This is a police officer in Iran holding a public ceremony, where he is invited by an imam into a limited-time marriage - for payment, for one month. In practice, this means that Islamists in Iran have created laws that legitimize prostitution, solely to enable men to satisfy their desires, while

Interestingly, this co-existed with surprisingly (by today’s standards) permissive attitude regarding prostitution The Kinsey report in 1948 revealed that ~ 70% of men had paid for sex at some point. A plurality probably had their first sexual experience in a paid, transactional, context It wasn’t precisely legal but it existed in a popularly tolerated zone of behaviors alongside more strictly guarded interactions with the opposite sex So you might have a chaperone for a date but also you could