[wgflyer]

As an aside, during the seventies I spent a couple of years over there. I remember the first time I went...the plane was only half full, and a number of attractive women were aboard, scattered throughout the plane. I fell asleep.

When I awoke, to the garbled chatter of the pilot informing us that we would soon be landing, I noticed that the women were gone. In their places were "black ghosts", for the women had all donned their habayias. It was all new to me at the time and somewhat troubling.

In retrospect, I imagine that the women are quite happy to go wild, as do their male counterparts, when out of the watchful and contemptuous eyes of the matawa. The Saudi men I taught all had tales of adventures in the USA, complete with pictures of their American girlfriends, which were related only after they trusted me.

Those were more lenient times, too. The religious police have gotten a much greater influence over the years.

Human nature tends to favor sampling the forbidden fruit, whenever it appears unguarded. We consider it our right to do so, whatever might the folly of it be. But Saudi women pay a price for their circumstance.

[AppyPappy]

I knew a gay guy who swore Middle Eastern men were always willing. They didn't seem to have a taboo against sex with me although they rarely "received".