If you like to call her a "child" for being dealt with according to the laws, she's also a "child" for having sex, specially according to her land's rules and customs she's taken a big strange risk.
Don't get me wrong, for I feel sympathy for her, but everyone there knows the consequences of "acts against chasity" very well. It's forbidden and is against that country's laws and everybody there is well aware of it, and most of the people even consider sexual liberty immoral (more or less like our grandparents). And even then far too many people are still breaking those laws without even being noticed. IMO her case was a rarely unlucky one, I could relate it to her lack of diplomacy, if she provokened the judge by talking of misogyny and such. Iranians tend to be more subtle when dealing with those bigots.
Sexual affairs before marriage is not much accepted there (for both sexes, but males tend to have less self-control) unless some libertarians go preaching systematically for their people. Nevertheless, satellite channels do a fine job now. They have a great influence on iranian youths, converting many of them to a Mtv-like culture and mindset, and I must include, most trashy aspects of such culture is being spread among them too.
If you wish to compare it to the Western world, well there are definitely a few advantages in their laws against sex. For instance, far less teen/child porn or even normal porn exists there (if we ignore internet you would never come across such material inside the country, unless you intently seek it by asking and networking. It's very "underground"). Females (and males) are not used as objects of predominately sexual value in advertisements and alike. Prostitue is illegal as well. And -flame me if you wish- Homosexuals' propaganda is still not an unleashed politically-correct cause in ther land.
And about the shocking polygamy which is ok according to those laws, it's so rare in actual life, you might never learn of one instance among the people you meet, even if you live there for 15-20 years.
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If you like to call her a "child" for being dealt with according to the laws, she's also a "child" for having sex, specially according to her land's rules and customs she's taken a big strange risk. Don't get me wrong, for I feel sympathy for her, but everyone there knows the consequences of "acts against chasity" very well. It's forbidden and is against that country's laws and everybody there is well aware of it, and most of the people even consider sexual liberty immoral (more or less like our grandparents). And even then far too many people are still breaking those laws without even being noticed. IMO her case was a rarely unlucky one, I could relate it to her lack of diplomacy, if she provokened the judge by talking of misogyny and such. Iranians tend to be more subtle when dealing with those bigots. Sexual affairs before marriage is not much accepted there (for both sexes, but males tend to have less self-control) unless some libertarians go preaching systematically for their people. Nevertheless, satellite channels do a fine job now. They have a great influence on iranian youths, converting many of them to a Mtv-like culture and mindset, and I must include, most trashy aspects of such culture is being spread among them too. If you wish to compare it to the Western world, well there are definitely a few advantages in their laws against sex. For instance, far less teen/child porn or even normal porn exists there (if we ignore internet you would never come across such material inside the country, unless you intently seek it by asking and networking. It's very "underground"). Females (and males) are not used as objects of predominately sexual value in advertisements and alike. Prostitue is illegal as well. And -flame me if you wish- Homosexuals' propaganda is still not an unleashed politically-correct cause in ther land. And about the shocking polygamy which is ok according to those laws, it's so rare in actual life, you might never learn of one instance among the people you meet, even if you live there for 15-20 years.