HALAL SEX. The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America

With a foreword from Mona Eltahawy, from Toronto Life Senior Editor Sheima Benembarek, one of the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writers, Halal Sex is an unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of Muslim women living across North America.

In most of the Muslim world, sex is permissible (or halal) only within the confines of marriage. So, what happens when immigrants and their children set about pursuing an open and active sex life amid western peers and attitudes? The six deeply personal stories in Halal Sex attempt to answer this question.
From a niqabi in a polygynous marriage, a non-binary trans Sufi, a lesbian stand-up comic in an interfaith marriage, to an exotic dancer and sex worker: a tapestry of a diverse Islam emerges in Halal Sex, encompassing a wide variety of cultural and religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
For readers of Leïla Slimani's Sex and Lies and Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, Halal Sex aims to be a frank, feminist contribution to the advancement of Muslim sexual education and pleasure