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Ayatollah Mohammed Asif Mohseni defended a clause requiring a woman to wear make-up if her husband wished, saying it was designed to encourage men to take an interest in their spouses.
But since the Shia personal status law was signed last month, it has drawn condemnation in Afghanistan and internationally.
A clause stating that a wife must submit to her husband's advances, unless ill, has been interpreted as sanctioning rape.
A group of 300 Afghan women were stoned and subjected to verbal abuse from conservative opponents when they protested against the law outside Ayatollah Mohseni's Kabul mosque on Wednesday.
Ayatollah Mohseni, who leads Afghanistan's Shias, said the law had been misinterpreted by politically-motivated critics.
"Why should a man and woman get married if there is no need for a sexual relationship? Then they are like brother and sister," he said.
Men and women should negotiate the frequency of conjugal relations, and a woman should not be forced to say yes all the time, he said.
However he added that women do have a duty to meet their husband's needs.
"If a woman says no, the man has the right not to feed her," he said.
The make-up clause would protect relationships he added.
"When men venture outside, they see lots of other women with makeup, but he comes home and finds his own wife with a dirty face," Mohseni said.
"This is mentioned to encourage men to have more interest in a social and personal life with his wife."
The new law governs marital and family relations for Afghanistan's Shia minority, who under the Afghan constitution can settle family disputes under their own jurisprudence.
Little boy: But uncle, what if the women outside have better make up?
Uncle: Strewth! You're right. Now if only women's faces were hidden...
Poof.
Following the dramatic success of Afghanistan's latest family law, evidenced by the dramatic drop in divorce rates and female obesity across the country, a new law to promote equality among women has been proposed...
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I can clearly discern that Ayatollah Mohammed Asif Mohseni is not getting any.
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