This was in the news over a year ago.  I had a good laugh about it at the time, but never bothered linking to it.  It came up again in conversation the other day with some of the boys though, and we had a good laugh about it all over again.  So, just in case someone didn't see this the first time around, I thought it was worth a link.  (Better late than never, right?)

Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will be 'end of virginity'
Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will tempt them into sex, promote pornography and create more homosexuals, according to some conservative Muslim scholars.

Academics at the Majlis al-Ifta' al-A'ala, which is Saudi Arabia's highest religious council, said the relaxation of the rules would inevitably lead to “no more virgins”.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are banned from driving.

The academics, working in conjunction with Kamal Subhi, a former professor at the conservative King Fahd University, produced the conclusions in a report for the country's legislative assembly, the Shura Council.

It warned that allowing women to drive would "provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce". 

Now, I know you and your liberal friends would probably argue that women from stable economic backgrounds would not immediately run out to prostitute themselves if they were allowed to drive.  But that's just your opinion against the University's, and these are well respected scholars who have completed a whole study on this. 

..The link to homosexuality is a bit harder to puzzle out though.  I myself have seen several woman driving in my lifetime, and I can't say it's caused me to have any homosexual urges.  But then that's just my personal anecdotal evidence, and it's not statistically significant.  (And they have done a whole study on this after all.)  So I'll just throw this out to the blogosphere: have any of you guys ever been tempted into homosexuality because women are driving?

Imagine all the women in Saudi Arabia who are being told right now: "I'm sorry honey, you can't drive.  It would cause homosexuality."