Although basically it is a maldefired metaphysical concept, “honor”, conceived predominantly as a complex of sexual integrity which must be protected by bloodsheld if necessary, is reproduced by the Turkish legal system as a moral/normative reference which attempts to foresee, preclude and categorically oppress any potential social relationship that may be construed as sexual flangrance. It is obvious that the legal and social normative systems jointly “favor” the male over women;however, when probed at a holistic,systemic level, it becomes clear that within the husk of the “honor complex”, the parameters of behavior which apply to men no less oppressive, on the other hand, neither does the overall adaptation of woman to the social order exclude them too much from the power/authority structures of the system. On the contrary, women, accorded a certain status and power, can and do act violently to preserve the normative/moral structure nourishing the “honor complex”, of which they ostensibly are the main victims-in a circle reminiscent of the “panopticon”.Thus, women, customarily attributed a passive role, can be found to be making an active contribution to sustaining and reproducing their so called “secondary” social standing. This narrative/ideology imposes the risk of confining the problem into preconceived dichotomies, whereas, the issue should less be approached as a contest of genders for superiority than a total, “human” emancipation of both sexes from the constrictions of a social structure defined as “male dominant”The current approach to matters of morality in the Turkish legal system feeds from and conversely nourishes the traditional-customary panopsis of the honor complex in the most categorical of premodern inequalities, thus serving to perpetuate a premodem structure of social relationships equally consricting the free individuation of both genders.