Gulf sex shop offers marriage guidance with edible undies FEATURE 06/02/2010

Gulf sex shop offers marriage guidance with edible undies

FEATURE 06/02/2010 MANAMA — Usually veiled and wearing a modest, flowing abaya, Khadija Ahmed looks an unlikely owner of the conservative Gulf’s first sex shop. She sees nothing wrong, however, with selling “joy jelly,” edible undies or the vibrating accoutrements offered by such niche boutiques around the world, insisting that nothing in Islam forbids the pleasures of the bedroom. “It’s not a sex shop in the Western sense,” she explained, “but a place to help married couples, and only married couples, enjoy sex to the full.” Ahmed, who admits that she cannot, of course, check identity cards to see whether clients are married or not, got the idea for the business as she came to realize how many men and women were having extra-marital affairs. Her shop, named Dar Khadija, aims “to provide a service to married couples by making their sex lives more exciting than the lure of an affair. “Why do married men and women go looking for love elsewhere? Because of the routine that couples fall into.” If whips and leather bondage suits are what you’re seeking to pep up your sex life then you won’t find them in Dar Khadija. Nevertheless, it does offer risque bedroom accessories and kinky lingerie, plus a selection of ladies’ clothing which range from jeans and tops to fancy evening dresses and embroidered abayas..... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100602com3.html

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