The south and the east of the Mediterranean have long been the inverted mirror of Europe’s fears and longings,1 and as such, a defining place to try to circumvent by contrast the very idea of Europe in appreciative or critical fashion. Sexuality in this region has piqued the curiosity of Europeans and North Americans for a long time, either because it appears to be a place with fewer constraints on sexual practices, inducing desire or repulsion, or on the contrary, to condemn the rigidity and violence of its patriarchal norms and the ensuing sexual repression.
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