Is it permissible to read erotic stories between spouses to increase pleasure?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
It is not permissible to read sexually explicit stories, even between spouses, due to the corrupting elements they contain: such as contributing to their spread, their negative impact on the reader by transmitting the moral decay of the authors and their bad habits, the lies and exaggerations they include which affect the spouses' contentment with each other, and the risk of them falling into the hands of children and corrupting their morals.
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