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"When Iranian American anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi first visited Tehran in the summer of 2000, she expected to encounter the Iran she grew up imagining.
Her family remembered violence and extremism, and these were the images that stuck: "women clad in black chadors, wailing and whipping themselves," "black bearded men with heavy hearts and souls," arranged marriages, and the fierceness of the "morality police."*
Is Iran having a so-called "sexy spring?" The west has exported restaurants, products, and ideas to other countries around the world, but what if western ideas of sexual liberation became big in countries where sex is repressed? That is happening now in Iran-- could sex be the key to real change? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.
