Growing up we’ve all heard at least one story from The Thousand and One Nights. But I had no idea that The Thousand and One Nights that I remembered was all censored. Original “adult” version shows women being manipulative, evil, dissolute, and perverted. It seems like even demons were better than women. My question is why is it that all women in The Thousand and One Nights are shown as evil?

When the vizier is trying to talk his daughter Shahrazad out of marrying the king, he tells her this popular saying, “I would be sitting pretty, but for my curiosity.” What do you think about this saying?