The hottest-selling item in Tehran pharmacies this summer isn’t allergy medicine or vitamin C. It’s a sex-education DVD—the first ever released in the Islamic republic—called Beloved Companion, which has been blazing off the shelves. “It’s been selling really well,” says a pharmacist in central Tehran, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, with a laugh. “We’ve sold hundreds since it was released.”
