I have to thank Angry Arab for bringing me to light about this fatwa originally, but i couldn't help re-posting it. Since it is in Arabic, I will summarize: a website that specializes in fatwas on "women's issues" called Eve's World posts the following (Arabic only): if a man has anal sex with his wife without realizing it, he is forgiven as long as he ceases as soon as his wife informs him. There is a long-winded explanation given for this using chain of narratives which ends up saying that God "told the Jews" that having anal sex or sex with your wife while "she is laid on her face" will produce a cross-eyed child. However, fear not, for God did not reveal the full truth to the Jews, as anal sex does not (gasp!) result in pregnancy! This stellar sex education tip is accompanied by the ruling that a husband may "take his wife however he pleases, laying on her back or on her face, so long as his entry is in 'the front' and not 'the rear'". I find this disturbing enough to share not just because of the insertion (no pun intended) of Jews into this whole tale so as to try and somehow link them to sexual deviance - taking advantage of their being mentioned a whole lot in Surat al-Baqarah (the Cow Chapter of the Qur'an) - but also because implicitly the fatwa seems to say that (heterosexual) butt sex is ok if the husband "doesn't know" and the wife doesn't inform him! Can this also mean that a man can have sex with another (male-bodied) man as long as he thinks the latter is female and is not informed to the contrary? In addition to this, the fatwa is inadvertently reassuring curious young people who may lack safer sex knowledge that anal sex will not get you pregnant. Oh, if only they had found a Hadith that supported using condoms.
PS: In addition, I would like to thank his Beneficience the Sheikh who issued this fatwa for teaching me the term for anal sex in good fussha (classical Arabic). This will definitely be worked into my next homework composition.
