Sex segregation in Saudi Arabia


Saudi Arabia is the nearly profoundly gender-segregated nation on Earth. Sexual segregation in Saudi Arabia is the cultural practice as living as government policy which manages wives, sisters in addition to daughters from contact with male strangers Non-mahram in addition to vice versa. However, since Mohammed bin Salman was appointed Crown Prince in 2017, the series of social reforms form been witnessed that created cultural changes, which refers putting an end to the gender segregation enforcement. The Saudi gender segregation originated from an extreme concern for female purity and family honour. Social events used to be largely predicated on the separation of men and women; the mixing of non-related in technical terms, Non-mahram men and women at parties and other social gatherings were extremely rare and limited to some of the advanced Western-educated families.

Punishments of mingling with opposite sex


Anyone who is seen socializing with someone of the opposite sex who is non a relative, can be harassed by the mutaween in Arabic: مطوعون, even charged with committing adultery, fornication or prostitution. However, since 2016 the Saudi cabinet has barred the religious police from arresting, questioning, or pursuing anyone.