you know, i never thought about this

but it must be a horror. of course i think it is a horror to have to live in a country where one (if one is a WOMAN that is) has little if any rights, cannot drive, must ask their husband (or a male family member) if they can travel or even have surgery. i wouldn't last (or THEY wouldn't last) 30 seconds there

i just joined the campaign to ban men from selling lingerie in ksa on facebook

Saudi lingerie trade in a twist
By Stephanie Hancock
BBC News, Jeddah

It would be bizarre in any country to find that its lingerie shops are staffed entirely by men.

But in Saudi Arabia - an ultra-conservative nation where unmarried men and women cannot even be alone in a room together if they are not related - it is strange in the extreme.

Women, forced to negotiate their most intimate of purchases with male strangers, call the situation appalling and are demanding the system be changed.

"The way that underwear is being sold in Saudi Arabia is simply not acceptable to any population living anywhere in the modern world," says Reem Asaad, a finance lecturer at Dar al-Hikma Women's College in Jeddah, who is leading a campaign to get women working in lingerie shops rather than men...........