re: #209 Cannadian Club Akbar

A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.

Then how the fuck are you supposed to get married? And don’t give me the arranged wedding bullshit. Idiots.

I read an article in National Geographic a few years ago about courtship in Saudi Arabia. Young people exchange contact information by driving by night spots and tossing little balled up pieces of paper with phone numbers through car windows. Referrals occur through friends and family. Instead of dates, they bond through text messages, pictures, and voice chat. Meetings occur on the sly, and all of this goes on under the noses of the religious police.