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Morgita wrote:Go you! You have managed to tell your tale of being propositioned and NO-ONE (yet) has chipped in to tell you that it must have been your fault, for walking the sugarcane lanes or for just being there. Not a whiff of a suggestion that you must not be respectable and are leading the young men of Luxor astray by flaunting your obvious charms.
Do I detect the unmistakable whiff of a double standard?

NO Morgita, so please give us a break from these posts about double standards, nastyness etc, (do you know how hard it is to run a forum and try keep a balance) we are doing are best to keep this forum as friendly as we can, looks like you missed the Moderation thread I posted about 5 days ago viewtopic.php?t=25935

No I didn't miss it. I don't believe that I have been nasty to anyone. I can understand if people don't want to hear or see unpalatable truths or even things that don't fit their world view. I can't resist poking at the cosiness that encourages double standards. I haven't made any personal attacks on anyone other than a bit of gentle fun. If I needed to ask apology I would. If you want me to stop posting I will.

Huh? No one as said that you have made attacks on anyone or been nasty, no one is asking you to stop posting, I was talking about a few posts that you have made before about others being nasty and about double standards, All I said was we are trying our best to make Luxor4u a friendly forum and thats why i posted the rules again.

We want you just as much as anyone else to enjoy the forum

Zeitgeist wrote:It was all to do with an Innocent stroll around Gezera after my evening meal at the Africa restaurant..

Lucky you didn't have any carrier bags with you then Zeitgeist

Tim will tell you why !

That Z is pretty normal on the WB, it happens a lot ....I seen it myself (not in the sugar canes mind!!) but a lot from coffee shops and on roofs, there are many couples who either live or visit there and its very common the man is having these "assignations" completely unbeknown to his wife. Amazing and also rather sad, although we used to have a laugh about it, when you think of the implications......
Take the wife with you next time

"Pretty normal" behaviour on the West Bank? What a den of iniquity I seem to have moved into! It's a rather sweeping statement about such a large area, though I grant you propositioning a single man (or woman) who walks near the riverside is fairly common – until you become known in the area.

But it seems I must visit more coffee shops and rooftops if I want to see a stream of erring husbands striking their sexual assignation deals

Believe me TonyC, it can be a real eye-opener when you have a balcony overlooking some of the main areas for this clandestine activity...... and amazed at some of the people who "partake" .......we used to wonder how the wifie was oblivious, of course I couldn't vouch for what goes on in the sugar cane!! but let's just say after what I've seen nothing would surprise me

When I lived closer to the Nile, I used to walk along the sugarcane fields, thinking that I was all alone in the world, until I made friends with a man who had come to spend some months. He was looking for a place to meditate in the sunset, but whenever he went out in the landscape, thinking he was alone, men would come running out of the sugar cane fields, shouting that Mecca was the other direction, and this was blasphemy. They would then try to make him convert, pointing their right index finger at him, while they had their left hand working in the pocket of the ghallabiya, and after a few minutes invite him for sex in the fields for money, flashing their bananas.

This happened several times a day, and he was deeply frustrated. If we walked together, young men or boys would approach him directly and offer "service" or "Egyptian banana", ignoring me, though we could have been a couple. Straight to the point, no time for sweet talk, when the meter is running.

I used to see men disappear with these boys day and night and come back fifteen minutes later. When a woman went with the same boys, it would take up to an hour, but not in the sugarcane, in some flat.

Am I glad, that I left that neighbourhood...

He was looking for a place to meditate in the sunset

Oh is that what he called it?
But it is so true Bennu, and not only boys, men too........it does make you wonder the risks they are taking going with women and men as from what I hear there is no "safe sex" practiced.