To Lina & Becreative - Lower Egypt

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Apr 30, 2009 at 22:22

Lina , your comments showed cultural insight and awareness but my comments regarding Western women behaving badly in Egypt are just as worth noting. The resort cities of Hurghada and Sharm el Sheikh are nothing short of pick-up areas for hordes of young, handsome Egyptian men on the prowl for foreign women (mainly Russian and European) who are also on the prowl for handsome, young Egyptian men. If you want to land yourself an Egyptian then these are the places to be.

As for Luxor I can personally recount stories of British women coming here purely for sex. Before I met my husband he was offered 1,000,000 LE (Egyptian Pounds) to have sex at her invitation with a British woman. After he refused, she hounded him and returned to Egypt at least twice that he knows of to seek him out before she gave up her quest.

Another example is that of a British woman who has an appartment near us and visits here every eight weeks or so. My husband and I were driving in the streets not so long ago and we saw this women (she would be in her fifties and nearing sixty) with an Egyptian man (not so young and handsome) and being all lovey dovey in the street which is illegal behaviour here.

That very night we were in a restaurant dining with friends and she walked in hand in hand with another Egyptian man (young but again not so handsome). These men had the unmistaken appearance of poor caleshe drivers that she had hooked onto and their humble existence was not masked by the leather jackets (probably gifts from her) that they were dressed in for the occasion.

The result is this woman has a reputation for paying for sex and she is just one of many who come here from Britain to Luxor for that purpose alone. Is it any wonder then that the men here have such a poor opinion of western women. These desperate women shower these very poor men with gifts and money in return for a "relationship" so the general thinking is why wouldn't ALL foreign women behave this way? It then becomes expected that if a young sex starved Egyptian man finds himself a foreign woman (and any foreign woman will do) he will have great forbidden sex, more money than he ever could have dreamt, expensive designer clothes and of course, a car. He will also more often than not have hidden from her sight, his dutiful Muslim wife, his children and his immediate and extended family who all rely on him for survival and meagre handouts. What a bonus these foreign women become in the face of poverty!

A tongue in cheek solution - do Egyptian authoriities prevent divorced, widowed or single women over fifty entering Egypt? This would then would present more problems because the standard of living for young Egyptian men would fall dramatically because they would not have access to foreign "funds" as would tourism as these women make up a greater percentage of the tourists in Egypt. Any other ideas?

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