Sexuality and Faith: For A Better Fulfillment
Images of love making and sounds of heat-filled exchanges are splashed on screens more than from pages of Scriptures. Yet, sex is not the franchise of wicked pimps and the merchandise of insane harlots, running amok on Bollywood dance floors and spewing haram semen on lounge bars. The story of a naked Adam in company with a nude Eve is as much primordial as it is sacred reading of all our divine Books. Notwithstanding, married people are torn between these two oddities, it seems like, without much reference from Islamic sources, as to what should be the stand when sex and faith are jamming. Does sexual pleasure betray of a weakening Faith and/or should a strong faith exclude sexuality?

Gay Marriage: A Necessary Freedom
If we as Muslims strive for equal rights within this country, then are we not hypocritical to go against the equal rights of others?

Wedad’s Cavalry
Ahmed put the Sex and the Ummah section in a chastity belt. He then took off for Dubai and forgot to give me the keys. He probably did it to guard against the perverts of the Ox Brigade. Meanwhile Mohja...

The Sweetness of (Written) Intercourse: MWU’s ‘Sex and the Umma’ Column and the Search for Modern Muslim Erotic Expression
Graphic by Saadi Al Kaabi (Iraq) By Mohja Kahf Sex column a Ramadan revelation: The idea for a sex column on MWU! came out of a meditation on the rigors of Ramadan by a fasting Muslim. There was a...

Madonna and the Mullah vs. Madame Rose: On Art, Sex, and Love
Stringent laws and traditions evolved to remedy what the Madonnas and Mullahs of our time have done, albeit in profoundly different ways, in reinforcing what should have long become the archaic notion that the human body is divorced from its mind and soul, and that its physical impulses have a mind of their own independent of its soul that must be set on either a carnal or cardinal course.

No Sex Please. We're Muslims.
The guidelines for modesty were published by the All Islamic Modesty Conference of 1979, and they can not be discussed any further.

Enough with the Prudes: Bring on “Sex and the Umma”
When did the prudes take over Islam? Why do we Muslims burst into a chorus of "Astaghfirullah!" when sexual topics come up for conversation? A glimpse into the Islamic past reveals a different tone!

Sex and Sexuality: Dealing Effectively with Islamic Double Standards
Many contemporary Muslims are unwilling to acknowledge either the existence of the double standard or, even more troublesome, its roots in the key source texts of Islam.

Celebrating the Sexual Impulse
Our sexuality is a part of who we are and when we rejoice in our existence we rejoice in all dimensions thereof.