 A modern Saudi Jurist, in 1983, upheld that if a man suckles from his wife, their marriage is nullified.The query remains a popular one into the 21st century, and has come up in Saudi advice columns.A Sunni cleric Sheik Ezzat Atiya (عزت عطية), President of the Hadith Department of Egypt's al-Azhar University issued a fatwa in 2007 encouraging women to breastfeed their male business colleagues so that the man could become symbolically related to the woman, thereby precluding any sexual relations and the need for both sexes to observe modesty.