They admitted to religious taboos ranging from same-sex attraction to extramarital affairs. The treatment they received was alarmingly severe. J oseph, a thin man with a delicate bearing and soft gray eyes, has a mellifluous accent that is hard to place — evidence of growing up in the United States but in a world apart. He worked as a travel agent, spending his days arranging flights to far flung places, often for people with more freedom than he could ever dream of. Like many Hasidim, Joseph who, like several of the people interviewed for this article, requested that his real name not be used here married at twenty. His wife was the first woman he had ever touched, and she got pregnant soon after their wedding.
The Orthodox Sex Guru
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By Melkorka Licea. March 12, am Updated June 28, am. Waiting for him in the parking lot in her car was a sultry brunette stranger, and they were both eager for their first date at an Italian restaurant in Omaha, Neb. By day, he and his wife, Monica, are Hasidic Jews living in the heart of Williamsburg. But by night, the attractive somethings pursue kinky sex as a swinging couple on the online dating app Tinder.
On That Satmar Sexual Polemic
But that would be a disservice to Feldman, 25, who has succeeded in writing a heart-rending sexual polemic. Her early life among the Satmar Hasidim was still exceptionally difficult. Her mentally unstable father was eventually matched with a hapless young British woman who had apparently been lured with gifts and promises of financial security.
In one of her early sessions with the patient, Bat Sheva Marcus, an Orthodox Jewish sex counselor, drew up a list. The patient, who was in her 20s, wore the uniform of her rigidly devout sect: a dark suit with a shapeless skirt reaching well below the knee, dark stockings, a plain blouse buttoned up to the neck and both a wig and a crocheted hat covering her head. There was pain, and, more problematic for Marcus, there was no desire.
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