The narratives and practices articulated in the realms of romance, love, and sexuality, I argue, offer a privileged vantage point for understanding the multi-layered and complex ways in which new pious women’s configurations of the self, marriage, and sexuality are produced and made relevant to a new desired society. Narratives collected through in-depth interviews with upwardly-mobile young pious women in Istanbul provide the empirical foundation for this paper. I elaborate the interconnections between democratization in inmate relations and democratization in social order by explicating three desires: Hermeneutic Curiosity in imagining and defining the ideal Muslim Man; Marriage of Compatibility in articulating a paradigmatic shift from marriage of logic; and Corporeal Compatibility (tensel uyum) in (re)defining sexual desire and practices.