Perhaps she observed Shabbat even
in the harem of the king, in secret.
Soon, Jillian found herself on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months
in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei.
Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months
in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.
Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next 18 months
in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah...
Not exact matches
On this day, he is wearing green - gray
harem pants (he has several pairs
in various colors) and a triangle necklace to commemorate the birth
of his son, Summit.
In other parts
of the world, they face much worse — including the beheader's knife and the kidnapper's
harem — but Eberstadt's lens is usefully focused on us.
David's adultery, and David and Solomon's
harems come to mind, particularly
in the context
of this conversation.
(Like when the biblical Esther is compared by a popular pastor to a contestant on «The Bachelor» when,
in reality, she was one
of hundreds
of women forced into the king's
harem!)
To that end, they are throwing a staff Christmas party
in which everyone is being asked to dress up
in some sort
of vague approximation
of Oriental culture, asking staff to attend
in their «juttis, kurtas, turbans, saris, lehenga cholis and
harem pants.»
Common denominator between both
of these guys being that the indulged themselves
in polygamy and
harems.
The stags rut with antlers locked to be
in charge
of the
harem.
The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his
harem; yet she may,
in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message
of the gospel and is willing
in principle to believe
in it), because
in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand
of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.
Part
of the reason for this is because after spending a night
in the kings bed, the woman was returned to the
harem of concubines, where she would spend the rest
of her life
in luxurious but desolate seclusion.
Instead, he theorizes: «The performance
of Papitou's nudity is a part
of what Malek Alloula names as the colonial «anthology
of breasts,» a tradition
in Orientalist visual culture
in which the bust
of the «colonial
harem» is displayed
in one
of three forms.»
But even more pernicious was the influence
of the
harem — that breeding - ground
of seditions and knavery, as well as the source
of the monarch's personal demoralization,
in every oriental court through history — which was firmly established by David and much enlarged by Solomon.
Female leadership
in the Ottoman Empire is a surprising and important aspect
of this section; indeed, Madden credits the Sultan's
harem with the Ottoman Empire's survival.
He had consulted with the older counselors, who apparently retained some sense
of political realities, if not actual memory
of events
in the reign
of David; but he accepted the view
of the young fellows
of the court, his boon companions reared, like himself,
in the diseased artificiality
of the
harem - infested court and doubtless for long anticipating the day when with his enthronement they should do as they pleased.
An idle, aging king
in the heady, evening air
of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results
of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration
of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue
of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still
in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity
of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this picture
of the king's total moral collapse
in steps
of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words
of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation
of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's
harem and another son added to his progeny.
As we discussed a couple
of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl
in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say
in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the
harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.
Of the girls brought into the harem, Michael Fox writes, «What is significant — and most oppressive — is that their will, whatever it might have been, is of no interest to anyone in the stor
Of the girls brought into the
harem, Michael Fox writes, «What is significant — and most oppressive — is that their will, whatever it might have been, is
of no interest to anyone in the stor
of no interest to anyone
in the story.
Or that, as the sexual property
of the Empire and under the direction
of the royal Eunuchs, Esther and the women
of the king's
harem each took a turn
in the king's bed to see who would please him best.
I never learned
in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was forced, along with perhaps thousands
of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes
harem.
If Abram had been given the choice
of tests — a famine or his wife
in Pharaoh's
harem — we can be sure he would have chosen the famine.
I never learned
in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was drafted, along with perhaps thousands
of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes
harem.
For me the real evil
of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which,
in lawful use, leads the individual out
of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality
in that
of another (and finally
in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back: sending the man back into the prison
of himself, there to keep a
harem of imaginary brides.
In fact they had a law that if ever a man was allowed into the
harem, he was not to be allowed within seven steps
of any woman.
Some have even tried to tie her story
in with modern - day, sex - slave trafficking as she was brought before the powerful king as part
of his
harem.
Jillian Lauren is the author
of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life
in a
Harem and the novel, Pretty, both published by Plume / Penguin.
But the bracing realism that infuses her storytelling lifts the veil
of harem life and shows us the gritty truth
of life
in fantasy - land.
It's a motherhood memoir for the slightly less traditional moms among us, about going from being a member
of a
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of the PTA, and it comes out
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I'm the New York Times bestselling author
of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted, Some Girls: My Life
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In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine
in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
in the Prince
of Brunei's
harem, an experience she immortalized
in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS.
A jaw - dropping story
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In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine
in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
in the Prince
of Brunei's
harem, an experience she immortalized
in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRL
in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS.
Lauren lifts the veil on
harem life and shows us the gritty truth
of life
in fantasy - land.»
Jillian Lauren (who also wrote «Some Girls») tells her story
of infertility,
of adoption, and
of moving past a history
of drug use (and a stint
in a
harem) while watching other friends who are unable to escape that past.
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in a
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A jaw - dropping story
of how a girl from the suburbs ends up
in a prince's
harem and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser.
So, how does a Nice Jewish Girl From the Suburbs go from belting show tunes
in the living room while her father accompanies her on piano, to becoming first a stripper, then a call girl, and finally one
of many kept women
in Prince Jefri
of Brunei's
harem?
Jillian Lauren is the author
of the memoir, «Some Girls: My Life
in a
Harem.»
In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best - selling memoir, Some Girl
In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine
in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best - selling memoir, Some Girl
in the Prince
of Brunei's
harem, an experience she immortalized
in her best - selling memoir, Some Girl
in her best - selling memoir, Some Girls.
Jillian Lauren is the bestselling author
of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted, and Some Girls: My Life
in a
Harem, and the novel Pretty.
Lauren talks about her incredible real - life adventure «auditioning» for the
harem of Prince Jefri, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, and her new book Some Girls: My Life in a H
harem of Prince Jefri, youngest brother
of the Sultan
of Brunei, and her new book Some Girls: My Life
in a
HaremHarem.
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Jillian Lauren is author
of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life
in a
Harem and the novel Pretty.
For months I have been anticipating the release
of «Some Girls: My Life
In A
Harem» by Jillian Lauren.
Jillian Lauren is the author
of Some Girls: My Life
In A
Harem and you can read more at Jillianlauren.com
Males with large hyoids and deeper roars but more diminutive testes live
in small social groups with often only one male dominating a number
of females — a «
harem» social model.