It is wrong to say that Islam discriminates against women. Islamic concept of God is based on Oneness of origin and the primordial unity of male and female as proceeding from a single soul: Thus we read,

 

“O MANKIND! Be conscious of your Sustainer, who has created you out of one living entity, and out of it created its mate, and out of the two spread abroad a multitude of men and women.” (An-Nisa’ 4:1)

 

And the affirms that the rights of women are no way inferior to those of men:

 

“the rights of the wives [with regard to their husbands] are equal to the [husbands’] rights with regard to them, although men have precedence over them [in this respect]. [216] And God is almighty, wise.” (Al-Baqarah 2: 228)

 

And Islamic view of gender relations is that of partnership rather than subservience of female to the male:

 

“And ( as for)  the believers, both men, and women, they are partners of one another: They [all] enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong, and are constant in prayer, and render the purifying dues, and pay heed unto God and His Apostle. It is they upon whom God will bestow His grace: verily, God is almighty, wise!” (At-Tawhab 9: 71)

 

Therefore, it is entirely wrong to state that wives are slaves to men. There is no basis for the Hoori myth you have referred to, for even as husbands have right to sexual fulfillment in marriage a wife has the same right. That is why we have precedents of the Prophet allowing a woman to divorce her husband for no other reason than his failure to satisfy her in bed while he has no character blemish.

 

One would be truly amazed at the sensitivity with which Allah orders husbands to treat their wives even while they are parting ways; here is the verse:

 

“And so, when you divorce women and they are about to reach the end of their waiting-term, then either retain them in a fair manner or let them go in a fair manner. But do not retain them against their will in order to hurt [them]: for he who does so sins indeed against himself. And do not take [these] messages of God in a frivolous spirit.” (Al-Baqarah 2: 231)

 

And finally, let me cite the words of the Prophet: “The best of you is the one who is kindest to his spouse’ and ‘only honorable men shall honor women, and only the most dishonorable men shall dishonor women.”

 

Almighty Allah knows best.