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Allowing women to drive would “provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce.”

If women were allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, the result would be catastrophic and lead to "no more virgins," said clerics from the Majlis al-Ifta al-Aala, the country's highest religious council.

Women in the country have been pushing to drive, and a number of women have driven in protest to the ultra-conservative country's ban on female drivers in recent months.

They face public lashings, jail and ostracism if discovered driving in the only country in the world where women are not allowed to take the wheel.

The report from the Majlis, in coordination with former professor at King Fahd University Kamal Subhi, reported their findings to the Shura Council, the country's legislative assembly.

It warned that allowing women to drive would "provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce."

Within 10 years of the ban being lifted, it claimed, there would be "no more virgins" in the Islamic kingdom.

It comes after a previous report stated women should cover their faces in order to avoid showing off "tempting eyes" to men in the country.

According to the spokesperson of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) in the conservative Gulf kingdom, women may soon be forced to don a full-face covering.

Spokesman of the Ha'eal district, Sheikh Motlab al-Nabet said the committee has the right to stop a women whose eyes seem "tempting" and order her to cover them immediately.

Saudi women are already forced to wear a loose black dress and to cover their hair and in some areas, their face, while in public or face fines or sometimes worse, including public lashings - bikyamasr