Erasure of Sexuality and Desire: State Morality and Sri Lankan Migrants in Beirut, Lebanon

Abstract

This study has been carried out on Sri Lankan migrant women working in Lebanon. The sexual lives of these women have been examined, and the predominant issues brought out have been the abuse and exploitation of women sexually. The natural desires of women and the repression of their sexualities have been largely ignored, state and non state interventions regulating and stereotyping sexual activity as according to accepted norms.