WHAT LIES BENEATH

The burqa is used in Islam as a way to stop women being looked on as sex objects, but we use it to MAKE me a sex object. We use it to take away my identity and my feminine form. When my owner decides he wants to use me, my facial features remain hidden but my body is exposed for his pleasures. Sometimes he permits my eyes to show, other times not. Often, I am gagged beneath the veil.

The wearing of the burqa does not really make me feel dehumanised, rather desexualised, even with the knowledge that I am wearing something completely feminine and sexy underneath. This feeling however changes dramatically when my body is exposed and used by him - sexual objectification is then the order of the day!

According to the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, the burqa “reduces women to servitude and undermines their dignity”...........sounds like the perfect garment for me then!!