I just realized in a flash of brilliance how a woman can have more than one husband in Islam! Temporary Marriage! If she's got a set schedule with them, she can make each contracted period end before the next one arrives.

Now if I were to become a second wife, I would insist on this sort of thing.

As the fairy tale goes, what is good for the golden goose is….wait how does it go?

*This is part of the "fractured" series and is meant to be taken lightly, as a joke even, with a bit of deeper meaning to be found at its heart. The fractured series is based on "Fractured Fairy Tales" from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

So what is this all about the prohibition of interest? What is credit? Does credit and interest apply to money alone? I was thinking about this while at brunch with my friends. They were laughing at me, not with me. But I insist that there is a deep point to this bit of silliness, just like all posts in the "fractured" series.

Please enjoy this in the vein of the fractured fairy-tales once seen on “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.” In other words, this is intended to be humorous yet revealing a deeper truth.

Since we have been talking about celibacy, I thought I would discuss the promise of the “72” Virgins in paradise. I’ll let someone else address this in terms of objectification of women, the traditional scholarship on the matter, and of course its problematic heteronormativity. Here I would like to ask a more obvious question. Virgins are not likely to be very good in bed. Why would any man want to have sex eternally with some beautiful young things if their responsiveness is likely to be limited to timid or apprehensive surprise and fumbling? Why is this tempting?