Prostitution in Dubai

Posted on September 15, 2007
Filed Under Female Species, Art/Photography, Sex/Sexuality, Mideast |

PBS has an excellent report about prostitution in Dubai. It comes together with a 12 minute video clip which is very revealing and unique. It’s worth your time.

What caught my attention in this short documentary is that some women in Dubai aren’t forced into prostitution but that they actually voluntarily get involved in it. Apparently the money is too good to resist. Some of them make as much as 7,000 American dollars a month. It was a little shocking to me.

Click on the picture below. I LOVE the sexy designs on her arms. It’s a very clever strategy of standing out and kicking the competition’s ass.

A Moroccan prostitute displays the henna patterns on her arms. Muslim prostitutes are paid the highest in Dubai. [Drima: Actually, according to some naughty guys I know who live in Dubai, Arab prostitutes are the most expensive].

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21 Responses to “Prostitution in Dubai”

  1. Amjad on September 15th, 2007 2:42 pm

    yuck.. Brown henna turns me off big time, lol. Black henna rocks.

  2. ratedrsuperstar on September 15th, 2007 3:02 pm

    Drima:
    How long do you think it will be before self proclaimed’morality police’ start showing up in Dubai to crack down on such women?

  3. Danial on September 15th, 2007 7:55 pm

    ratedrsuperstar, they can always be bribed.

  4. ratedrsuperstar on September 16th, 2007 2:34 am

    Danial:
    bribed?? but these are men of virtue.Prostitution, bribery why I thought only the Kafurs committed such vice.

  5. Danial on September 16th, 2007 2:59 am

    “bribed?? but these are men of virtue.Prostitution, bribery why I thought only the Kafurs committed such vice.”

    I’ll ignore the sarcasm and respond in a serious manner.

    Only the kaffirs? Right, that is why Muslim countries are endemic with corruption and seeing a wannabe mullah try to run from the scene in a burka as evident in Islamabad in July.

  6. D.B. Shobrawy on September 16th, 2007 5:25 am

    ur not gonna get any mortality police like in Saudi Arabia because the Dubai authority intentionally turns a blind eye to prostitution. As far as they are concerned it adds to the playground atmosphere of Dubai and they think it helps to control sex crimes. I dont know if its true but we’ve known for a long time that sexual repression in Arab countries has driven sex crimes.

  7. ratedrsuperstar on September 16th, 2007 5:30 am

    Dan:
    I agree. If you know me well you’ll know I never miss an opportunity to mock this notion among many islamists that the west is decadent.Believe me daniel you and I are on the same page in that respect. For the record and this is just my opinion, I believe prostitution should be legal as long as the woman is at a legal age of consent(ie 18).
    ps hope you are well drima–seems like you are

  8. Comin' in from the cold on September 16th, 2007 2:29 pm

    so what? this is old as history
    dont make a big deal out of it

  9. Dalu on September 16th, 2007 2:54 pm

    As long as they are doing it voluntarily, though I wonder if they are being safe. Not just in terms of STDs/AIDS, but I mean how do the men treat them? Even first class hookers get smacked around and degraded a bit. It’s odd, but prostitution is one of those services that people will go pretty far to get their money’s worth.

    Is 7,000 a month a good rate? Is that per person or collectively. Cuz I’d get pissed if I had just “serviced” ten people I’d rather not for only 7,000.

    also, I absolutely love some of the Henna designs. Totally rippin’ off some of that stuff for my tattoos.

    Not to cramp her style or anything.

  10. Howie on September 16th, 2007 8:29 pm

    Prostitution should be legal…This is one of the those sometimes “grey” areas subjects that I see VERY black and white.

    Can there be abuses? Of course there can be abuses. But I believe that when it is illegal there are even MORE abuses. You at least can more easily take the abusive pimp middleman out of the picture for the most part, you can require health exams, licensing, codes of conduct etc.

    People need sex. And when people, especially young men and especially young men who have not freely CHOSEN celebacy, don’t get sex, they can get pretty trippy.

    I have spent over 30 years working around offenders and victims and this would NOT make everything all better. It would not cure the real screwballs, but would help many.

    I know a guy with severe quadrapeligia. He is 30 and has never had sex. He is horny to the point of insanity and has NO prospects for a girlfriend or marriage. I think it is INHUMAN that he cannot just go to a prostitute, lay down his money, get a squirt and go home.

    It is not a lovely picture…but it sure is a reality.

  11. Dalu on September 17th, 2007 1:56 am

    Don’t know why I have issue with the term “prostitute.” Hmph. I know the “moral” issues surrounding this field. But I find that I have more qualms with ethical issues when it comes to this… like the mistreatment of women in the field, women being forced into prostitution either by the sex trade or because they just hit some really hard times. Than whether or not it’s “moral” to be a “prostitute.”

    But what about women who just get up one morning and go, why I’d like to be a professional sex worker. I think I prefer this term more, “sex worker.” Because seriously, sometimes I think if people would just have more sex, they’d be less war. I kid, I kid…

    My feminist views tend to be pro sex, but then I have this anti pornography views. But at the same time, I think it’s possible for some women to have complete agency over their sexuality when it comes to even pornography. Just that most of the time, they are just feeding into sexist/demeaning roles. So it’s like this warped thing that I still can’t work out without hurting my brain.

    This was not adding or taking away from the intellectual debate going on here. But I figured I’d offer my two cents anyway.

  12. Nomad on September 17th, 2007 9:17 am

    http://www.unesco.org/courier/1998_12/uk/ethique/txt1.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Germany

    If I recall hystroy, in the roman empire prostitution was legal ; prostitutes were part of a working class, but apart,they had not the right to marry

  13. Peter on September 17th, 2007 1:19 pm

    Obviously prostitution is not going away, but it should not be idolized either. Prostitution is humiliating and degrading. “The happy hooker” is a myth. In Sweden paying for sexual services is illegal and will be punished. Here in Denmark we have a more “soft” policy trying to give prostitutes alternatives.
    Btw it turns out many prostitutes have a history of abuse in childhood.

  14. aaron on September 17th, 2007 7:09 pm

    I like how sex has been so twisted in our society that no one says anything of the way that living this lifestyle is going to fuck someone up emotionally and spiritually.

    Yeah sex is just for entertainment!

  15. Howie on September 17th, 2007 7:52 pm

    I think I disagree with everybody here on several points…

    If this is a way somebody wants to make a living…then so be it. Heck, I could argue running a casino or liquor store are also degrading and bad for society etc.

    I don’t buy the “feminist” argument. Unless it is slavery, this is not exploitation of women, it is more exploitation of men. Prostitutes prey on men’s fantasies, sexual frustrations etc. I know retarded guys that have been robbed by hookers. Let’s not belittle women by presenting them as powerless and stupid and lacking the ability to judge their own behavior. Women, aside from slaves, go into prostitution for lot of reasons. The molestation thing? In many ways..a big frekin cop-out.

    So once again…I think prostitution should be regulated, licensed and attempts should be made to keep the middle-man or WOMAN out of it or at least there should be strict controls.

    Let men live out their little fantasies or just get laid now and again. If women choose to make a dirty little living servicing them…then so be it.

    Let’s let the vice cops go after crack dealers, molesters, theives and violent criminals.

  16. aaron on September 17th, 2007 8:43 pm

    Dalu -

    “But what about women who just get up one morning and go, why I’d like to be a professional sex worker. ”

    I’m not sure what planet you live on but I highly doubt this happens here on Earth.

  17. Dalu on September 18th, 2007 1:38 am

    It does happen, Aaron :’P

    You’d be surprised. I don’t have friends directly who do this. But I threw this example out there because I have been in situations…where…these women who will own to this personally or would refer to friends of their who are strippers, porno stars, or sex workers (not prostitutes as they put it) who have complete agency of their bodies and sexuality and know that they are not being exploited (beaten, raped, not being paid enough..etc) because they complete control over their “trade” or whatever you want to call it.

    So these women don’t work for pimps, they are not in hard economical situations, didn’t come from broken homes and supposedly were never abused themselves, not to mention are relatively educated. They just tend to “own” their sexuality over the top, I suppose, while saying a big screw you to the idea that women are supposed to adhere to certain moral sexual laws.

    My first reaction was to be like pffft and dismiss it, but then who am I to speak up for these women. I’ll speak up for those who are thrown into these demeaning and sometimes abusive situations through no control of their own (sold or forced into it for whatever reason), but those who make such “empowering” statements and act like they definitely know what they are doing…I really can’t knock them down.

    I personally tend to be largely anti pornography and the sex trade because I see it as being a demeaning practice, that operates within largely sexist societies… where these women are seen as immoral sex objects (with no humanity…they are just “prostitutes.”) So I believe that you can never turn such actions into vices for empowerment.

    Some feminists are totally pro-sex/pornography. Don’t know how this works out, because I’m on the anti pornography end of the spectrum. But some give some reasons that makes you think differently sometimes.

    So in the end, I’ll keep my skepticism to myself and focus on the down trotten (that s word?) instead of trying to push down those women who have it “all figured out” in terms of how to escape a system where no matter what you think of yourself, what the larger society thinks in the end is what’s going to matter the most and define you.

    Unless you manage to somehow shatter the structure as a whole and rebuild it.

    I didn’t spell check or make sure I responded coherently, oh well.

  18. Aaron on September 18th, 2007 6:25 am

    Thanks for such a great response Dalu! Very appreciated. :)

  19. sall on October 12th, 2007 6:52 pm

    black henna makes u ill

  20. david on February 5th, 2008 12:02 am

    Bonjour,
    voila un vrai film de la prostitution arabe en camera cache
    et certainement le vrai sujet de ce film pornographie est comme la prostitution chez les arabes .
    telecharger le Film dans ce lien:
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/8npo4h
    Réflexions qui ne visent pas seulement les arabes mais aussi les musulman « à faire vrai ».
    Merci
    @+

  21. Dubai hotel guide on February 7th, 2008 3:42 pm

    Well, most hotels in Dubai - ok let’s say 80% - are really whorehouses, with working girls in the bars downstairs and rooms to rent per hour..
    I think it’s a State industry

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