Sex and the Emirati

A young British lady called Rebecca Black is facing charges in Dubai of having ‘naked sex’ in the back of a local taxi cab, with some Irish bloke. Rebecca, for her part, vehemently denies the charges.

It’s a tough one to call: on the one hand, this is Dubai, so ‘naked sex’ may well mean smiling politely at the Irish man while being fully dressed. Or even catching sight of him out of the corner of one eye. The Emiratis are strangely swift to take moral offence, for a people whose country is funded by slave labour.

On the other hand, Ms Black is a British woman, a species which has made itself intimately familiar to men in every corner of the globe.

The UAE is said to be trying to stamp out licentious behaviour, although this has not yet impinged upon the hundreds of Russian whores who throng every bar and nightclub. There is almost nothing to do in Dubai except have sex in the back of a car, and then get arrested by some repressed and vindictive little Hitler.

Best, I reckon, never to go there.