Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code

The sexual energy was not confined just to parties. Walking down the street as a lone woman in Tehran, it didn’t take long to have a man or two following me. Sometimes they would drive by in their cars, slowing down at the curb, calling out something suggestive, but they were not too persistent when I kept my eyes glued to the ground and ignored them. Despite so much effort by the Iranian government to remove sex from the public sphere, it seemed to be on the very air itself.

Source: VQR
Published: Jun 1, 2010
Length: 27 minutes (6,952 words)
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