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Iran continued with special guests Ramita Navai and Rogine Babaei

The Guilty Feminist

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Is It OK to Have Sex in the Protests?

The protests in 2009 were huge. Not as big as 2019, nowhere near as big as the protests that are happening now. I had lots of really open conversations with young men and women about them having loads of sex during these protests. Sex has become this space where young Iranians see it as the final frontier of their freedom. And it's symbolic of freedom. It always comes down to the same things. The human being that doesn't want to be controlled,. That wants to just exist and breathe and connect and eat and have sex  and be together with each other.

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