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Storying Relationshipsexplores the sexual lives of young British Muslims in their own words and throughtheir own stories. It finds engaging and surprising stories in a variety ofsettings: when young people are chatting with their friends; conversing moreformally within families and communities; scribbling in their diaries; andwriting blogs, poems and books to share or publish. Thesestories are interesting to read and to hear, but they also have widersignificance because they challenge stereotypes about Muslims, who areportrayed as unhappy in love and sexually different, even dangerous. The youngpeople who emerge in this book, contradicting racist and Islamophobicstereotypes, are assertive and creative, finding and making their own ways inmatters of the body and the heart. Theirstories - about single life, meeting and dating, pressure and expectations,sex, love, marriage and dreams - are at once specific to the young BritishMuslims who tell them, and resonant reflections of human experience.