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<\/p>\nSexologist Sandrine Atallah thought she had been asked on TV to debate sex education in Lebanon \u2013 instead, she was ridiculed by her male hosts, unleashing a firestorm about misogyny in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
In a country where sex education is all but absent from schooling and discussions on sex remain taboo, Atallah hoped to bring facts to the table and dispel disinformation.<\/p>\n
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But even before she went on air, a panel of mostly male hosts tore into educational videos she had posted online, including one about arousal and another on masturbation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes it\u2019s sexual education, sometimes it\u2019s sexy, I don\u2019t know,\u201d laughed one male host of On Another Planet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way she is talking is very arousing \u2026 your mind goes somewhere else,\u201d said another of the show\u2019s male presenters.<\/p>\n
When the 42-year-old doctor entered the studio on Sunday, she was repeatedly interrupted and mocked, sparking outrage online about the objectification of women in a country with a long history of systemic sexism.<\/p>\n
Lebanese women are barred from passing citizenship to their children and personal status laws administered by religious courts favour men in matters from divorce to child custody.<\/p>\n
Though the country strengthened its domestic violence law and criminalised sexual harassment in December, Human Rights Watch said the law placed an overly high burden of proof on victims and failed to prioritise prevention.<\/p>\n
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\u2014 Pierre Rabbat (@pierrerabbat) March 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n