Young Ladies Quotes



This law is noteworthy for two reasons. First, women found it easier to wash clothes in the running streams rather than at home where most often there was no plumbing or running water. But the sight of women washing clothes was apparently so sexually stimulating to Afghan men, that the practice had to be stopped. While washing a bare arm or leg might be seen. However, in this case, the law had the husbands punished (usually beaten) so that they would exercise more control over their wives.