>Make the peculiarities of American sexual modernity, and not Islamic
>sexual tradition, the focus and issue and you'll have a much more
>interesting discussion.
I'm struck by the way so many (American) critics of U.S. imperialism take an America-Firster's view of our importance on the world stage and just reverse all the valorization signs. Why is the U.S. angle so much more interesting? Isn't this a story of how two cultures - both deeply religious and anxious about sexuality - are meeting in explosive ways?
Doug