Note: the excerpts appear according to their order in the magazine

Sex Addiction

Maha Hussein | Syria

This is the story of a friend of mine. That woman is mostly attracted to sex with any foreigner, whether an Arab or a stranger. She doesn’t care and she’s even not into sleeping with the same guy twice. One-night-stands turn her on. That’s why she picks up men in bars, while she is extremely drunk. She returns home with someone to end her night with him, and fulfill her most eccentric or even ordinary sex anticipations. Once, we were at a sidewalk café in Paris and she told me while laughing out loud: we said goodbye at the door, in the morning, and I forgot to ask him about his name. She added with great enjoyment: I’m a bitch… more

Incest in Syria

Abiy Hasan | Syria

Samer, a 26-year-old engineer in an engineering office in Syria, is having an affair since more than five years with his aunt, who is two years older than him and lives in Al-Shahbandar Square. Their relation has evolved to the extent that his aunt is refusing marriage. He is her one and only love! The case of the 31-year-old Khaled from Aleppo is not any better; his partner is his 22-year-old sister… more

The First Time

Raymond Jbara | Lebanon

She entered the room; Antoine pushed me to follow her. She took me from her patron. We passed a huge saloon, full of clients. Majida showed me the way to her room. I started shivering like a paper at the tail of a kite, especially when she took off her robe and I saw her beautiful naked body. Before she laid down on her bed, she stared at me as if I’m in an exam. But with utter compassion - contrary to the teachers observing the exams at the Sagesse School from which I graduated - she asked me: Is it your first time?.... more

The Whores of Tehran

Emma Harakeh | Lebanon

Breasts made out of fruits, kitchen utensils replacing heads, and air fresheners hanging on whores to reflect their obsession with cleanliness, while blonde wigs invade the lingerie to point to the pubic hair. Threads and needles in the private parts, and weaved cords indicating the penises of some whores. Such spectacles open up many issues like hymen repair or gender transformation surgeries to merge between brutal, harsh operations and between the illegitimate passion. The law that allowed sex transformation surgeries in 1983 in Iran, and was considered as a relief for some, has now become a legitimate way to avoid the rope of gallows wrapped around the necks of homosexuals… more

Eight attractive Arab female writers talk about their relations with their bodies.

Testimony of Lorca Sbeity

My body is my man, my loyal and cheating partner at the same time. It’s my servant, my friend, and the field of my desires. Beautiful I see it, and sexy too. I pamper it with some oils, incense, oud and amber. I train it to love. I water it, after each hug, with a potion of “freedom” to keep it warm, passionate and horny. I love all its pores, I observe all its sensitive spots and never get tired of insisting on finding unexplored islands where the light will rise and the sails will be hoisted… more

Rose Petal Jam

Maurice Farhi | Adapted by Khaled Al Jubaily

I was sitting on the border of the sofa with my hands covering my underwear, thinking of a way to leave the room without her noticing that I soiled myself. And after having washed up, I was willing to ask her to give me back my clothes. She noticed my confusion, came near to me, removed my hand, started inspecting my underwear and begun touching me “I’ll tell you what I’ll do, and once done, I’m going to tell your parents, I’ll tell them that you are detained…. then…. she took me in her mouth… more

Love is Its Name

Alawiya Soboh | Lebanon

Like my organ, my breasts are also for love and maternity. With his mouth and hands, and while kissing and touching them, Hani wrote on my breasts the pact of love between us. Engraved on them are white stripes - caused by the effect of breast-feeding my daughter - just like a tattoo reminding me that her mouth and hands will never part my breasts. Those stripes also remind me that breast-feeding her was a pact between us and confirm her connection with my body….. more

Manhattan

Youssul Rakha | Egypt

Maybe I’m taking care of my American girlfriend’s body more than before, but just like someone who’s pressing the buttons of a machine that produces wetness. Her groans sound like the crank of a car engine and the wind’s blast when you’re speeding up on an empty freeway. When, after sex, I used to roll myself a cigarette (my girlfriend doesn’t smoke), I used to feel a horrific gap under the ceiling that joined our bodies together. Then, quickly, I resume giving her pleasure as if we are in a box stamped with “fragile” word. I keep it shaking and if she cried and complained that sex exhausted her, I’ll leave to where I could masturbate without feeling anything… more

This is how they fuck in China

Mazen Maalouf | Lebanon

There is a direct relation between the nipples and the vagina. And that is not related to the breasts’ size or form. The pleasure a woman gets when having her breasts sucked or touched is ruled by a direct biological contact between all her sex organs. The man can also arouse some inert spots in a woman’s body, through touching them during intercourse and for certain periods, due to the presence of some neurons that would stimulate them to become sensitive with time……. more

Reflections on an Era of Pornocracy

Hovik Habshian | Lebanon

Sex has offered the cinema great movies which did not often have entertainment and excitement purposes. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo is one of those movies. This motion picture is inspired from the novel “120 days of Sodom”, written by the Marquis de Sade, and depicts the story with sincerity and fidelity except for some changes imposed by the director. Pasolini added new aspects to the cotemporary cinema, as the story of this movie did not take place in France in the nineteenth century, but in Italy at the end of World War 2…more

The Geography of Lust: Zone 4 in Abidjan

Maher Koraytem | Lebanon

Prostitutes roam the streets, but entering the sex club with its strict guard and vacant rooms is healthier due to the medial checkup imposed on prostitutes. There, they are even younger. A prostitute called Love, bursts into tears and stops having sex upon seeing a porn actrice playing the role of a nun. The same prostitute told me that her mother used to go to fancy and air conditioned restaurants, in the eighties, wearing her fur coat. Is this country real?.. more

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