The internet allows two-way communications in a public space, while being discreet.
This allows anything to become a commodity. People can benefit from hiding behind their screens, before the right time to strike.
The thing is, not everything they do is wrong. Some are right, and some wander in the grey area.
And here, it's revealed that in India, women are paying to have sexual intercourse with strangers, in order to save their marriage. In what's called 'Nikah Halala' services, men are offering themselves for sale, where divorced women can marry them for one night, have sex with them, get divorced again, to then legally remarry their first husband.
In other words, some men prey on women under the disguise of Islam, in order to have sex with desperate women, and sometimes, to then abuse them, or blackmail them.
In Islam, marriage is a lot of things, packed into one package.
But just like any other form of relationship between two individuals, quarrels can happen. Fights between spouses caused by arguments that have no end can sometimes result to a divorce.
According to Islam, men can divorce his wife, and reconcile. The husband can revoke the divorce at any time within his wife's three full menstrual cycles. Resumption of sexual relations will automatically retract the repudiation.
They shall return as husband and wife, with hopes that everything returns to normal.
But this is counted as one 'talaq'.
After three talaqs, the man cannot remarry the woman.
The only possible way for a remarriage after three talaqs in Islam, is when the woman marries another man, and that the woman is consummated in the marriage with that man, and that the woman is then divorced, with that man saying his first talaq.
It's only after this, that the widow can return to her first husband, and the counter resets.
Men here, are making use of this, and have been selling themselves online on the web, and on social media platforms.
They only target women who wish to remarry after receiving three talaqs from their husband.
In some cases, even the husbands also become desperate to reconcile, that they allow their divorced woman to have sex with another man, to only hope for the man to return the woman the next day.
Ironically, some of these men call themselves religious scholars.
They ask to be paid for a one-night stand with divorced Muslim women who are using Islamic law to save their marriages, and charge anywhere between hundreds of dollars to thousands upon thousands of dollars.
The practices remained mostly unnoticed, due to the rarity of women who wish to remarry after receiving three talaq.
The network of this Nikah Halala in India was made public following an investigation from India Today.
"There was a woman in the room. I went there and had sex. Before leaving at 2-3 am, I divorced her," one of the men confessed, to an undercover investigator.
One of the men even marketed his services for Nikah Halala as a professional.
"We have the men. It will be done through them. If you don't trust them, I am always available for it," he said.
Another man, was even quick to boast about his masculinity despite his old age.
"My program is all set, today, tomorrow or the day after. I am always fit 24x7, mashallah!" he said.
Here, the men is making use of the law for their own benefit.
While talaq is the way of Islam, and that Nikah Halala is allowed in the religion, it's actually forbidden if the kind of marriage is planned for a divorce, before it happened.
Long story short, Nikah Halala is a criminal act.
Nobody can put themselves up for sale to be 'bought' by women who desperately wish to restore their broken marriages.
In Islam, marriage should be based on genuine intentions, and that Nikah Halala would have been considered adultery.
This is when they demanded the perpetrators to show their network, to be prosecuted for rape.
One of the men, who advertised his Nikah Halala services on Facebook, told an undercover BBC reporter who disguised herself as a divorced woman, that she need to pay £2,500.
And not just that, because according to the investigation, in some cases, women who seek Nikah Halala services are also at risk of being financially exploited, blackmailed and even sexually abused.
According tot he man, there was one time that a man initially refused to issue his woman "client" a divorce after a Nikah Halala service was complete, and that there is nothing to suggest the man is doing anything illegal.
The man even rejected any allegations against him, claiming he has never carried out or been involved in a Nikah Halala marriage, and that the Facebook account he created was for fun, as part of a social experiment.
"I knew of girls who had gone behind families' backs and had it done and been used for months," one woman said.
"They went to the mosque, there was apparently a designated room where they did this stuff and the imam or whoever offers these services, slept with her and then allowed other men to sleep with her too."
"This is lust. It's not permissible in Islam. This is a criminal offence committed in the name of religion," said Maulana Maqsood-ul-Hasan Qasmi, the head of the Imam Council of India.
"These people should be thrown out of the mosques."
The Islamic Sharia Council in East London, which regularly advises women on issues around divorce, also strongly condemns Halala marriages.
"This is a sham marriage, it is about making money and abusing vulnerable people," said Khola Hasan from the organization.
"It's haram, it's forbidden. There's no stronger word I can use. There are other options, like getting help or counselling. We would not allow anyone to go through with that. You do not need halala, no matter what," she said.
The practice suggests that the men are preying on the vulnerability of women, who just received three talaqs, and are desperate, and are desperate.
"Unless you're in that situation where you're divorced and feeling the pain I felt, no-one's going to understand the desperation some women feel," one of the women said.
"If you ask me now, in a sane state, I would never do it. I'm not going to sleep with someone to get back with a man. But at that precise time I was desperate to get back with my ex-partner at any means or measure."
Besides in the UK and India, instances of Nikah Halala can also be found in Iran, and other countries that recognize the triple talaq.
It's also practiced by a small minority of Muslims.
