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Feedback Rabat, Morocco. Every evening Amal the octopus vendor looks on as sin returns to his beach. It arrives in the form of handholding couples who hide behind the tall, castle-like quay walls in the city's harbor district to steal a few clandestine kisses. Some perform balancing acts on slippery rocks and seaweed to secure a spot close to the Atlantic Ocean and cuddle in the dim evening light.

Sexual Politics Given the social taboos, Shereen El Feki thought she might struggle to encourage women across the region to speak candidly about their sex lives. She was wrong. A reluctance to use condoms has helped lead to a rise in HIV infections in the Arab world. This is what a gynaecologist in Egypt told me. Everyone talks about football but hardly anyone plays it; whereas everyone is having sex but no-one wants to talk about it. My problem was not getting people to talk about sex, but getting them to stop. People were very eager to ask questions and to speak openly about their experiences.

Forty sexologists from the Arab world have been meeting at Oxford University for what organisers say is the first pan-Arab conference on sex in the Middle East. According to the UN agency for children, Unicef, Jordan faces an average of 23 "honour killings" a year. In prison, same-sex sex is the norm. Saudi Arabia is just a large prison.

Today, as the Internet and smartphone technology continue to make inroads across the 22 Arab countries, sourcing porn no longer represents such a problem, nonetheless, the stigma endures. And while across the region a host of political and social issues are increasingly being called into question by a society hungry for change, discussions about pornography — and sex and sexuality generally — remain firmly taboo. A recent survey conducted by Northwestern University in Qatar found that, from a sample of 10, respondents across eight Arab states, the majority was in favor of tighter Internet regulation. Undeterred by the overwhelming evidence that such policies are always destined to fail, governments continue to announce plans to block access to X-rated websites, often with large scale public support.