From “Sex researchers convene in S.F. to study ‘moral panics’,” in the San Jose Mercury (sub. free):
Saskia Wieringa, the international association’s president, studies sexual politics in Indonesia and likens some strict Muslim traditions, such as forcing women to cover their faces in public, to many of President Bush’s conservative policies.
“They are both fighting against each other, but upholding the same kind of system,” Wieringa said.
In Indonesia, people are shying away from liberal dress codes that were always part of the culture.
“Women used to go around bare-breasted,” she said. “Now, there is a whole moral panic about the belly button that shouldn’t be shown.”
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International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society
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