Saudi-based cleric Muhammad Ali Shanqiti discards the old 72 virgins tradition in favour of a radical new vision of sex in the after-life:
So, let's do the maths...
Four wives, say, each with 70 black-eyed virgins. That's...purses lips, taps figures into the calculator... 280 black-eyed virgins. And each of these brings 70 servant girls. That's...19,600 servant girls. Phew! And those are just the servant girls, remember. Let's not forget those 280 virgins...and the four wives...that's 19, 600 plus 280, plus 4, which makes.....19,884. Nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty four women! Which is....a stunning 276-fold increase over the original 72 virgins. Now that's progress.
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