This chapter highlights some basic similarities and differences among competing discourses of sexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). In post-revolutionary Iran need for both explanation and regulation became more acute than ever before. Sexuality was moving away from a sacred manifestation of marital bliss to a more secularized human need. Refashioning gender relations along an Islamic line has required close monitoring of how gender and sexuality are shaped and acted out in private and public. In the Islamic model of sexuality, gender and family, men and women are inherently complementary due to their innate differences. In Islamic texts heterosexuality are considered normal and natural, and marriage its sole legitimate outlet. Homosexuality is defined as 'having erotic emotions and thoughts toward a person of the same sex'. Feminist writers have analyzed how sexuality, gender, and interpersonal relationships have been articulated in Persian language and literature. Feminism is treated in the religious discourse as not only anti-Islamic, but also anti-women.