clothes that covered most of their bodies and faces. While Ibn was still in Iwalatan he continued to learn more about their people and their way of life. "With regard to their women, they are not modest in the presence of men; they do not veil themselves in spite of their perseverance in prayers"(Battuta, 37-38). Ibn was not accustomed to this type of behavior. The women in his religious society wore clothing covering their bodies around males especially when they were praying.
             Ibn mentioned several times his dislike of women going naked. Often the women were made to go naked in front of others. Sometimes this is required when being forgiven. "It is their custom when they go in to the sultan to strip themselves of their clothes and enter naked"(Battuta, 56). Other times, women and little girls, usually slaves would serve the commanders and the sultan naked. "Everyone of them has his food carried in to him by twenty or more of his slave girls and they are naked, everyone"(Battuta, 59). The sultan's daughters were also asked to serve food naked to their father and others.
             The sexual freedom of these people were also different. The women do not travel with their husbands. The family of the wife, who wanted to travel with her husband, would stop her. Both the men and women had friends and companions outside their families, and either one would not disapprove of that conduct. Ibn Battuta had encountered a few circumstances of men and women together who were not married. He witnessed the wife of a man of the Massufa and her male companion conversing on a bed while her husband was sitting on a mat. He asked
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