Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and many other religions have strict rules about sex outside of marriage. For women in particular, the judgements can be harsh. However, most of the world's major religions have "evolved". A woman may be called a sinner for enjoying non-marital lovers but she is not killed for the most part in nearly all of the worlds' major religions.

This is not the case in the Muslim world. Men enjoy sex outisde of marriage with impunity but if a Muslim woman should dare to express her sexuality the penalties are often horrifying; severe beatings, social ostracisement, outright banishment or death at the hands of a family member or by religious backed security officials.

As we show here at World Art Erotica Sex is one of the most beautiful and wonderful ways to express love between humans. It is the reason for our continued existence and it has existed joyfully outside the confines of "marriage" for thousands of years before religion came along and made it a "sin".

In the article Honor Killings, Illicit Sex and Islamic Law, the authors make a strong case for the connection between Islamic theology and "Honor Killings".

"Two Men Entering a Woman Simultaneously in the Utthita-Harivikrama Position",
Anonymous Artist, Late 18th century - Persia (now called IRAN)

These killings happen all the time and most stories are not carried by the mainstream media unless the story is particularly horrific such as local villagers in Bangladesh beating to death a 14-year old girl who had been raped. CNN Story.

A woman's sexual decisions are between her and her God. The state and religious authorities can call it a sin as they do in the West. But she should not have to die for her sin.

One ironic aspect of condeming female sexuality so harshly in the Islamic world is that men suffer too. In the "natural" world, a young man is passionately sexual. But in a cloistered world where the genders are strictly separated you have a phenomenum similar to what happens in the Catholic priesthood. When people are unnaturally separated from their natural sexuality, perversion results.

Catholic priests are supposed to be celibate. But their pent up sexuality does not go away; as we now know, and poor little boys and girls have suffered as a result. So too in the Muslim world, young males who cannot have women find some of the strangest ways to satisfy their natural inclinations. Some are cute, such as the continual reports of British and US soldiers being propositioned by young Afghan soldiers. Others such as the huge number of unreported rape and incest cases that occur in many Muslim countries are much more sinister.

Any woman who has gone to a Muslim country has felt the raw repressed energy of Muslim men. It is not a nice feeling.

The final argument for female sexual emancipation in the Muslim world is National Security. The countries with the greatest proportion of "free" women in the social, economic, political, and sexual realms of life, the greater the prosperity and peacefulness of the nation.

If sex outside marriage is truly a sin then the "sinner" will be punished by their God. Instead many of the mullahs and men who do the punishing of women, are often quite hypocritical regarding their own sexuality.

No woman should have to pay for sexual enjoyment with her life. No matter what religion, race, creed or culture. That is what our campaign is about. From our unique perch as a museum of human sexuality we see that sensuality is a natural beautiful part of the human experience and our grand cause at World Art Erotica is to play our little part to help keep it that way.