I learned that I could not be homosexual, have an abortion or cohabit. When I was a teenager, even though this went against their personal convictions, my parents must have explained to me that it was forbidden to have sexual relations outside marriage or even to be seen in a public place with a man who wasn’t from my family. I am Moroccan and, in Morocco, Muslim laws apply to me, whatever my personal relationship with the religion. In France it can be a struggle to imagine the disorientation that comes with a young girl’s discovery of her sexual self in a country where Islam is the state religion and the laws are extremely conservative on everything that relates to sex. With the years and the distance, I have surely forgotten quite how difficult it is to live without the freedoms that have become so natural to me.
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