Author focuses on the sexual politics of zina, adultry, and the selective recognition by Sharia implementers of some expressions of illicit sex, and not others, as a sexual crime. While the Sharia does not explicitly name zina as transgressive heterosexuality, it is clear from significant elements of its conceptualisation, that is, its status as consensual sex between a man and who are not married to one another and that the source of its transgression is its occurence outside marriage.