Bonding Over Water and Skin

Sounds like a day at a typical nudist resort, but this was the observation of a writer visiting a "hammam" in Morocco, discovering an example of women's rights in the Arabian world.

There is something about being humbled by a silver-haired matron ordering you about in French, commanding you to take off all your clothes and then scrubbing you down like a rag doll.I obeyed her every order in silence...Two other ladies nearby were also au naturel, sitting on tiny stools and bathing themselves...Here, they were totally unabashed, together in a hammam. Women, young and old, with their babies, in a private space -- a sisterly solidarity, bonding over water and skin.

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