‘End of Virginity’ if Women Drive, Saudi Cleric Warns

A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country. The report contains graphic warnings that letting women drive would increase prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce. The report was prepared for Saudi Arabia’s legislative assembly, the Shura Council, by a well-known conservative academic. Though there is no formal ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, if they get behind the wheel, they can be arrested. Saudi women have mounted several campaigns to try to overturn the ban. Aside from the practical difficulties it creates, they say it is also illogical as in trying to keep them under family control and away from men, it actually puts them in daily contact with a male driver.
Earlier this year, a court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking a country’s ban on female drivers. This sentence came only a couple of days after the Saudi leader King Abdullah announced women would be allowed to vote for the first time in 2015.

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