Stolen kisses. An Iranian revolution or a bored repressed youth

A colleague sent me this fascinating read. It’s a book review of Pardis Mahdavi’s book Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution. In the book Mahdavi describes the sexual lives of young upper-middle-class heterosexual Tehranis. They are interested in sex and have lots of it in spite of the conservative repressive state’s laws against sex before marriage.
Mahdavi implies that something major is happening. She says, according to this review, that the antics of the youth are a political act: an act that will ultimately bring about regime change.
But is it right to make this connection? Will a sexually active youth lead to regime change? Is the rich youth in Tehran not behaving as youth all over the world wish to behave. How political is this movement?

It’s a good start to regime change, I would say. A dissatisfied youth challenging the state’s repressive laws by having sex liberally is change. And I imagine these young people when they settle down will wish more rights and freedoms for their own children than what they currently have. Not only sexual freedoms.