Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade [1G1pBlMV301]

An on-the-ground investigation into how some ufc events clerics in Iraq abused an ancient Islamic marriage practice to exploit women and girls. (Aired 2019)

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With undercover reporting, Iraqs Secret Sex Trade exposed how some clerics in the country offered to perform whats known as mutah or munqataa pleasure or temporary marriages with girls as young as 13 in exchange for money.

The short documentary also showed clerics who had essentially acted as pimps, and included the chilling accounts of young women who said they were exploited and forced into repeated pleasure marriages.

When a girl starts, shes destroyed, one girl, who was 16 when the documentary aired, told FRONTLINE. Her life ends the first day she takes this road.

Iraqs Secret Sex Trade is a FRONTLINE and BBC News Arabic production. The correspondent is Nawal al-Maghafi. The producers are Mais the bahamas Albayaa, Nawal al-Maghafi and Patrick Wells. The director is Patrick Wells.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Introduction

02:00 - How Some Clerics Exploit Iraqi Women and Girls

05:30 - Investigating Iraqi Clerics Who Perform Temporary Marriages

10:30 - What Critics of Temporary Marriages Say

16:29 - What Some Young Women Experience in Temporary Marriages

23:51 - A Senior Shia Clerics Response to the Investigation

25:19 - Credits