Our usual after dinner party discussion about politics, Hillary and Obama somehow ended up being about the word k@$ khol and its orgins. The explanation given by an old very educated and worldly doctor in our midst was so funny and yet in a way compelling that I just had to share it on here. Before that however, I apologise in advance for offending readers, specially female readers, for the heading/title as well as the content. It is more satire than fact. Here is the good doctor’s explanation:
Few hundred years ago in Iran, the culture was much more paternal; a prime example of “mard salary”. Men ruled the home. Hell, for all practical purposes, men ruled.
It was not like even 40 years ago when marriages were monogomous. Most men had at least 2 wives. These wives were more like “kaneez” than a life partner. So, whatever the men said or did was it. No room for discussion, compromise etc.
These days, most women wear the pants at home. Even in homes that this is not the case, women can withhold affection or sex and convert the husbands this way. If this is the only method possible, more power to women. Use of all tactics is permitted in these situations. Of course some husbands go outside the home and pay for affection but the percentage is low. Yeah, aha, specially in LA.
But in a marriage where there were 2-4 women for a man, as it was the case for Iran centuries ago, withholding sex was meaningless. So, during those few days of the month before the start of mensturation cycle (affectionately known as PMS in the U.S.) some women would not take any crap from their husbands. Their behavior would change so much, and usually tendencies would be towards aggression, illogical or unexplainable acts or depression/crying; so much so that the husbands would be caught offguard. And normally there was nothing the husband could do to fix the situation; not even brut aggression.
Interestingly enough, some of these women would become super frsiky during this time which was another mystrey to the men.
So, because these periods of unexplainable mood swings accompanied by exaggerated sexual desire were immediatebly followed by the actual mensturation, uneducated men of those days attributed the “khol” behavior to the vagina and therefore the word K@$khol was coined.
F.F.
Los Angeles
