On 7/28/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Reading Keynes's biography makes it seem that sex tourism in N. Africa was popular among British gays. Is that region much different?
And American gays, too -- e.g., William S. Burroughs. Tangier used to be a Western gay male mecca! Here's a funny story: <blockquote>Fri 24 May 2002 Startled marines find Afghan men all made up to see them Chris Stephen In Bagram BRITISH marines returning from an operation deep in the Afghan mountains spoke last night of an alarming new threat - being propositioned by swarms of gay local farmers. An Arbroath marine, James Fletcher, said: "They were more terrifying than the al-Qaeda. One bloke who had painted toenails was offering to paint ours. They go about hand in hand, mincing around the village." While the marines failed to find any al-Qaeda during the seven-day Operation Condor, they were propositioned by dozens of men in villages the troops were ordered to search. "We were pretty shocked," Marine Fletcher said. "We discovered from the Afghan soldiers we had with us that a lot of men in this country have the same philosophy as ancient Greeks: 'a woman for babies, a man for pleasure'." <http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?id=561752002&tid=1></blockquote> -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
