Young, old, single, married, employed, or unemployed, you all are nothing but sexual predators!
By that, I do not mean street sexual harassment or harassing a stranger, but I mean harassment as a way of life for the Egyptian male … Everyone has sexual deprivation, and that turned into sexual repression, which exploded into sexual obsession!!
For example, the Egyptian male interprets the delicate kiss, as permission to strip the woman of her clothes and tamper with her body. Even among married couples. The woman receives the man’s approaches in the form of steps, but the male on the other hand, cannot wait, and quickly turns the delicate foreplay into a fierce battle where he tries to devour the woman’s body, turning her feelings from shyness to panic as she gets surprised by that transformation which turns the matter into a battle she cannot manage…
If she was his wife, she would surrender in despair under the heavy weight that is suffocating her and injuring her feelings with rough, molesting fingers, which turns the whole thing into something like rape!
That shock remains inherent inside her, and builds inside her the fear of repeating it, which leads her to do everything that might drive the man away from her, whether screaming or neglect or laziness … She becomes disgusted with him!! But if she was not his wife, she would be surprised by the sudden transformation of such a delicate kiss into a shameless act, which makes her escape with wounded pride and heart, with no feelings but contempt towards him.
There is still one type of woman who accepts such transformation without warning. These are the prostitutes … they are professionals in managing such battles. They are familiar with the Egyptian male’s brutality and cruelty, who often feigns reservation and manners as a means of luring women … Prostitutes are well aware that the kind word or the simple kiss – for the Egyptian male – is only a step to begin the sexual battle.
The clever prostitute tries to don a mask of shyness at the beginning, as the Egyptian male prefers the mixed performance between shyness and openness…
In reality, he is not looking for a partner to share his life with, instead, he is looking for a prostitute, and he does not care about women as he is only after their bodies, no matter how loud he claims to be supportive of women’s freedom, he does all this in order to normalize harassment, thinking that free women are easy women!
The Egyptian woman is carrying such terrible sadness and confusion between justifying sexual harassment and sticking to real femininity and rejecting the horrible style of life, hoping to find a respectable Egyptian man who would respect and love her without coveting her body or transforming the relationship of friendship and love into a mere dirty and temporary affair …
When does this great distress, which lies in respectable ladies’ hearts and feelings disappear?
Rania Refaat