prostitutes in Dubai, how do they do it?
Oct 5, 2014, 9:35 am
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Oct 6, 2014, 2:45 am
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This could be whilst both attract businessmen, Dubai markets itself as a holiday city and is more likely to attract tourists seeking ladies than Abu Dhabi.
Oct 6, 2014, 8:32 am
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hmmmmmm .. but with more-or-less contestable markets and a porous border you might expect supply to distribute itself in away that results in uniform pricing.
We need more data points
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Oct 6, 2014, 9:37 am
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Oct 6, 2014, 10:02 pm
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The hotel owners want the revenue and don't want to lose customers -- including the prostitutes, many of whom are paying a discounted rate but still paying for room and F&B, often with a roommate to keep costs down amongst other things.
So as long as the police aren't called in to resolve a disturbance involving a prostitute at a hotel, the police don't enforce the law because their bosses' bosses have social and business ties to maintain and sustain that also involve the same as other hotel owners.
Keep in mind that the UAE is a small country where it's citizens are a small minority of the population. This has come with relationships amongst the clans/tribes and even intra-family being so interwoven and yet sensitive that nationals have to walk on egg shells when dealing with other nationals because it's sort of hard to keep track of whose cousin just married the bosses' sister and who is the bosses' favorite spouse and kids at the moment. The consequence is that the lower level police aren't going to rock the boat and the upper level authorities want peace in the house and don't want to risk shattering the peace amongst the extended relatives by depriving a group of its national of money from investments unless they really feel they have to do something.
So as long as the police aren't called in to resolve a disturbance involving a prostitute at a hotel, the police don't enforce the law because their bosses' bosses have social and business ties to maintain and sustain that also involve the same as other hotel owners.
Keep in mind that the UAE is a small country where it's citizens are a small minority of the population. This has come with relationships amongst the clans/tribes and even intra-family being so interwoven and yet sensitive that nationals have to walk on egg shells when dealing with other nationals because it's sort of hard to keep track of whose cousin just married the bosses' sister and who is the bosses' favorite spouse and kids at the moment. The consequence is that the lower level police aren't going to rock the boat and the upper level authorities want peace in the house and don't want to risk shattering the peace amongst the extended relatives by depriving a group of its national of money from investments unless they really feel they have to do something.
Oct 7, 2014, 1:17 am
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I'm pretty sure prostitutes are not nationals
, but they probably don't fit the the general expat profile ... and could face operating costs beyond the scope of general indices: what we need now is a specific sex-industry cost index.
Dec 15, 2014, 5:51 am
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One night my friend and I decided to go out for a night in Dubai. We were just walking the streets by some clubs and we saw a group of ten or more African women that were clearly trying to sell themselves to us (this was near a Hilton)-
I am positive they were prostitutes, so I ask, how is this possible considering how strict the UAE can be on unmarried tourists sharing hotel rooms??
What penalties do these women face- as the risk-reward doesn't seem worth it
I am positive they were prostitutes, so I ask, how is this possible considering how strict the UAE can be on unmarried tourists sharing hotel rooms??
What penalties do these women face- as the risk-reward doesn't seem worth it
Penalties can be very hard, but not often used because this would kill the tourism.
You can see that sex tourism is very common in Dubai, because it was listed as the 4th best sex hot spot in the world on ranking http://www.wikisexguide.com/wiki/Top...s_in_The_World
However, be discreet on whatever you do in Dubai.
Dec 15, 2014, 7:54 am
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Dubai is a major den of international prostitution. Even more conservative Bahrain is a den of such -- to such extent that many of it's higher-end hotels are jokingly referred to as the br(h)othels.
Prostitution at hotels in the wealthier GCC states seems to be a market served exclusively by foreigners.
Prostitution at hotels in the wealthier GCC states seems to be a market served exclusively by foreigners.
Dec 19, 2014, 9:53 am
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Pretty much everywhere in Dubai/AD/RAK/Fujairah/Ajman, but much more discreet in Sharjah. (They tend to actually crack down on stuff like unmarried cohabitation and illegal alcohol there - all alcohol is illegal alcohol in Sharjah). UAQ doesn't really have a tourism industry so who knows what happens there - but they have the cheapest booze so I doubt they care much.
Dec 22, 2014, 6:14 pm
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There were a few "ladies" hanging out in front of the Conrad a couple weeks ago when I was there. I was surprised see these woman working tricks right in the open. The nightclubs in Dubai are notorious for working girls, most of them are from eastern Europe and you can usually spot them from a mile away.
Dec 28, 2014, 10:07 pm
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