Why is the article in the Sunday Times titled 'Sex and the Muslim girl'? How come it's not 'Sex and the Turkish girl'? What if she was not a 'practicing' Muslim, or an atheist, or a devil worshipper, would it have made it less of a taboo that Turkish girls not only actually have sex, but also have good sex. I say it's more of a cultural issue . . . Eurotrash!
Selin Tamtekin (or her pen name 'Deniz Goran'), the daughter of a prominent Turkish diplomat, wrote an explicit novel chronicling sexual affairs, and she insists not about her own experiences. But so what if it was? It's not like she's admitting girl-on-girl sex or anything, not that there is anything wrong with that either, especially if I am in the room too.
Why should this be such a taboo for Turks and Turkey? And why is there the Turkish media's obsession with "a public witch-hunt . . . to name and shame members of the Turkish elite . . . (and calling her) a 'high-class Mayfair prostitute' who was writing about her own thinly 'veiled' (pun?) sexual experiences."
But now the London paper is making this 'taboo' label an issue to justify "how wide the gulf in attitudes still is between Turkey and its (European) neighbours."
And goes on to say . . .
"The process of Turkish accession to the European Union may well require a wholesale modernisation of the country’s attitudes to women and freedom of expression."
I should be put in charge of the 'modernization' process. The progress could be impressive enough that I may write a novel myself. What a novel idea!
