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The Documentary Podcast

Heart and Soul: Muslim sex education

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Despite some opposition from within their own faith communities, Muti’ah and Angelica are on a mission to teach other Muslim women how to have healthy and safe sex lives.

Geeta Pendse meets them both and finds out how to deliver sex education that is both useful and appropriate for their students.

Presenter: Geeta Pendse Producer: Linda Walker Series producer: Rajeev Gupta Production co-ordinator: Mica Nepomuceno

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following program contains strong adult themes.

0:05.0

Sex is very important.

0:08.0

It would be for most of us the only opportunity that we do get.

0:12.0

So yeah, if you're going to be shackling yourself for

0:15.8

want a better word to a person to say you're going to be my one sexual partner for the

0:20.9

rest of my life, which is not always the case I'm the law or you

0:25.0

know as the case might be.

0:27.0

No because I mean yeah let's be real This is a safe space.

0:33.0

Meet Musia, mother, writer, doctor, student, and sex educator.

0:40.0

I like you. She's very straightforward. I am going to add that to my repertoire.

0:45.6

Okay, anybody else has like...

0:48.6

You're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Gita Penn State and for Heart and Soul

0:55.0

which explores personal approaches to faith and spirituality from around the world.

1:00.3

I'm talking to Mutia and finding out about the groundbreaking women working as Muslim

1:06.4

sex educators.

1:08.8

So you're coming in, for example, in your hijab or whatever.

1:12.3

Sometimes just the act of removing your hijab makes you,

1:15.0

it feels very, you know, uncomfortable for you.

1:18.0

Get used to that.

1:20.0

Get used to touching each other.

1:22.0

But they often face opposition from the very community that they're trying to help.

1:28.0

So what drives them to talk about a topic that many of us shy away from,

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