Mousalreza Servati, an Iranian MP who is a member of the “influential parliamentary cultural committee”, on the proposed segregation of the sexes in Iranian universities:

“When the working environment is all-male or all-female, employees and students are liberated from certain distractions. In free environments, the possibility exists that when a lady passes, a gentleman likes her face or her behaviour and has it not happened quite often that this interest later results in the wife leaving the husband to marry another man?”

I can see how that would be rather frustrating after the parents went to so much trouble to arrange that marriage in the first place.

Couldn’t liberation be achieved by just getting women to wear a sack on their head or something? Oh wait, you’ve already tried that.