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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Temporary “marriages,” called sigheh, are predominately a feature of Shi'ite Islam. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a man typically has only one permanent wife – although in Sunni Islam, a man can have up to four permanent wives at once – but he can have up to 99 temporary marriages at the same time.

If this sounds like prostitution, you're getting the drift of it. The Arabic name for this union is mut'a, which means “pleasure.” A 48-year-old man named Habib, who had contracted several such unions, told Nadya Labi of Mother Jones his modus operandi: “I do sigheh with women who need financial help. Instead of giving money for charity, I marry them in this way and financially support them.”
One can almost picture the paunchy, balding man approaching teenager girls, saying, Hey, Baby, I'll help you if you help me…. Understandably, most women who agree to such “help” keep their agreements secret out of shame.

To compound matters, [b]the man — and the man alone[/b] — may break the relationship at any time, for any reason or no reason.[/quote]
That's true of traditional Muslim marriages as well - man can terminate at any time, for any reason.  Don't know why you decided to pick on mut'a marriages.  Those just expire when time passes.  Temporary marriages may very well can have their time and place - for instance, for women who aren't interested in traditional marital arrangements, women who don't want to risk custody of children, women who simply don't want a lifelong union. Used intelligently, they can be a tool of sexual freedom for women and men.

Teenage girls actually very rarely enter into those as mut'a marriages tend to be the province of more mature women.

Iranian law on polygamy does not limit men to one permanent wife. [/quote]

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