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I'm a man that lives in italy since I was born and here we see sex in a very much more "libertine" way compared to what Islam teaches us. Me myself got influenced a lot by this mentality. I remember i was very unhappy when I was 16/early 17 by seeing all of my friends having GFs or doing casual sex and this created some sort of self hate for not being able to do it as well.

So after I did my personal "glow up" I started to do the same thing as them so dating , having pre marital sex with them ecc.ecc. but things didn't change so much. Sure I was actually feeling better about myself but at the same time I internalized a strange sense of superiority and objectification towards women that I still today struggle to internally delete it. I don't really care if this view is projected towards twestern women or those i had a relationship with(especially since they held the same view towards me since I am maghrebi) but I don't like how it is getting internally projected even towards Muslims.

All of this lasted from my 17 until the start of my 20. Now i wouldn't exactly say that I regret what I did because if I didn't do it probably I would still be unhappy towards myself but i for sure hoped that this could last something like a bunch of months at best, just enough to tell myself "I did it".

Now the important question: is it a deal-breaker for women(especially the ones in the diaspora) to know that their future husband had past sexual experiences?

Keep in mind that I didn't go out every single week getting laid. There could be month I could make out twice and entire semesters where I wouldn't even talk with a girl. Just like the average western guy I'd say.

PS: I put Turkey and Iran on the same option because I feel that the vast majority of the users come from arab countries and therefore i imagine that we would see more interesting result if i distinguished maghrebis from egyptians and sudanese.

EDIT: Btw the amount of people from Turkey/Iran is incredible. I tought they would be the least chosen category but they are actually the second most picked one, surpassed only by levantines and iraqis. Damn i actually regret not having separated the 2 countries lol but I think that it is being carried by turkish people since a lot of the views are coming from there.

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I watched a couple of videos recently about the egyptian economy and what i could understand is that you guys are pretty fucked up. Whenever i write "egyptian economy" in the search bar every single video has some apocalyptic title in it as if the country is going to collapse in days. So I wanted to ask you is the situation as catastrophic as those videos suggest or is it exaggerated (atleast by lived experience). I'm tunisian btw(I don't know why mods are interested in my background but here it is).

EDIT: by reading all of your comments i can see that unfortunately the titles of those videos were accurate. I honestly have absolutely no idea how egypt is supposed to recover without a radical change of its own institutions, which is something basically impossible if my knowledge about the strenght and influence of the army is correct. Only thing i can do is pray for a miracle to happen. The collapse of such a big country would be disastrous. I cannot imagine how hard it would be to manage 120 milion people with a population that increases every year, not to mention the widespread desperation so many people would experience.