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3. Sharm el-Sheikh. Headquarters for...
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 05:45 PM
Oct 2015

Scheming young gigolos freely available to both men and women. That can't be news to the priest. Anybody with an unbroken Google can find out all about it.

Sharm is a resort town and its rules apply to all the other similar places in Egypt - there aren't any rules, pretty much. When I lived in Egypt I got several entertaining earfuls about this.

Young Egyptian men sell themselves to older Western guys, secure in the knowledge that Allah will forgive them as long as they are the "giver" and not the "receiver" in the relationship. Otherwise they'd be gay, which Allah wouldn't forgive.

And the Internet is awash in stories of Western women who fell in love under the Egyptian stars and woke up seriously swindled out of everything they owned.

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