Why so… ABUI?

Via Hilath.com

In Dhivehi language, abui can mean a lot of things in a variety of situations — as Maldivian blogger Xef himself found out, unfortunately and unwittingly, from Sun FM’s “narrow-minded” CEO.

But the kind of abui-ness that I will be talking about here is the openly and publicly distancing of oneself from “banal” activities such as sex but engaging in it secretly because such a natural – and strong – instinct as the sexual drive can never be repressed however much effort we put into it.

So, I then started wondering, why are Maldivians so abui on the outside when deep inside they are extremely promiscuous? Why this social hypocrisy? Was abui-kan (or abui-ness if you will) a sort of “culture” based on social hypocrisy as its foundation that Maldivians had created over time since Islam came because most of the Abrahamic religions regarded sex as “disgusting” though it is the most basic natural drive in humans?

It made sense to me. And when I thought more about it, I was beginning to see abui-kan as being implicitly and explicitly promoted nation-wide, on a conscious and subconscious level, because it served the agenda of most Maldivians who, with the advent of Islam, had started repressing their natural sex drives (like homosexuality and bisexuality and even promiscuous heterosexuality because promiscuity in heterosexuality, such as sex outside marriage, is regarded by these “sky religions” as evil, too), resulting in them reaching the point when they couldn’t control it anymore and they naturally “transformed” themselves into secret “sex predators” because what other choice did they have? It makes sense that a lot of Maldivians would become “sex predators” in such a repressed society.

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