Re: Broadening Melissa's Horizons ( I hope )...CCJ now a marriage counselor?!

Posted by Kenzi on October 27, 1999 at 03:23:35:

In Reply to: Re: Broadening Melissa's Horizons ( I hope ) posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on October 27, 1999 at 02:59:28:

: Actually, for a Moroccan man, being caught with henna (apart from
: night of the henna) would be EXACTLY like getting caught wearing
: women's underwear! There is a tradition of eunuchs and gay
: transvestites as sex workers (hennaed, of course) that is
widespread
: across the Middle East and Nort Africa and has been so since 500
BCE
: ... I keep finding more written sources on that, and a friend has
old
: pictures of curiously angular "belly dancers" from a century ago.
Men
: are exhorted to be conspicuously manly in these countries ... any
: appearance of feminitity may remind them way too much of these
fellows
: they do not wish to be mistaken for.

Thanks for the historical insight into my husband's reaction. The
above confirms what I suspected. I have tried to appeal to him to
let me do henna on him showing him men with tattoos and henna, but
he's adamantly opposed to it. Of course, Islam forbids tattoos so
that more many approach to body decoration is closed to him as well.

And I don't think that he looks at non-Moroccan men wearing henna and
thinks ill of them...maybe just figures what they don't know can't
hurt them. ;-)

Follow-ups:

• tattooing ve hennaeing CAtherine Catwright JOnes 19:01:35 10/27/99 (1)
  • Re: tattooing ve hennaeing Kenzi 23:46:06 10/27/99 (0)