Comments on: Arabian Vice: Sex, Lies and Videotape in Dubai City

By: Robin Rovere

Robin Rovere — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:59:25 +0000

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By: Terry Cooper

Terry Cooper — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:25:57 +0000

The cyclone was beyond imagination before being closed and the girls were really aggressive not a nice place to be except to realize that hundreds of girls are making money in Dubai. As you say the Chinese are the cheapest because they live together and have less costs, most of the poor girls need to leave to renew Visa every 3 months mostly going to Iran on a day trip organized especially for the short term visa workers. There are more sophisticated clubs where men can have a drink and chat up the prostitutes’ without being attacked. Juls Bar/York/Panoramic are well frequented and you have a friendly beer and admire to beautiful girls from all regions. Most of the girls work long hours because they have to pay all the extras like backhanders for visas expensive living quarters etc. Only some of the blond Russion/Ukrain women can get 400Usd a pass. Most of the Chinese and colored accept 50 USD for short time and about 120USD for a few hours. As mentioned most of the Chinese girls are very friendly and will stay the night as 5 star hotels are a lot better than the hovels they are obliged to live in. Also leaving the hotel early hours means risk of being robed by some of the horrible taxi drivers. Also a lot of the girls finally find a man who looks after them and quite a few live a normal live with one guy during his stay in Dubai. I have met girls that have stayed clean for 2 years until her guy goes home to Europe, they then go back on the game to find another hopeful husband. It is not as sordid as people believe, of course there are nasty pimps but many girls are independent and only work to send money to families. It should also be noted that the Chinese girls all look very young but I can assure you that most girls are over 40 but look 20; I have met girls 50 years old that look 20.

By: Saracen

Saracen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:18:10 +0000

“But then, surely prostitution is so widely practiced here, and so visible, that the authorities wouldn’t really care if someone shot footage of it?” Don’t be “confused”. I’ve lived in Dubai for over 12 years working as business journalist and I can tell you that Dubai is in fact marketed as an international brothel. It’s a “convenience” the international businessmen can’t live without.

By: Sachi

Sachi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:07:32 +0000

A much belated thanks for your post Ryan. We definitely didn’t make up the Cyclone bit but the tales we spun at the end of this story to authorities in Dubai in order to get out is worthy of pause on ethics and character. All I knew is that the tapes contained truth and I had to get them out at any cost. And Mimi was 100% on the same page for which you are right – I am very very lucky.

By: BAD IDEA Eds.

BAD IDEA Eds. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:20:59 +0000

@ HMHB. Although it was originally posted on our website in May 2008, as you point out, we first published ‘Arabian Vice’ in our print magazine back in November 2007. As Sachi states in the piece, she was working on a short PBS documentary in this period, and that documentary aired on the PBS website in September 2007. As far as we are aware, the Cyclone club was shuttered in April/May 2007, so this is entirely consistent with the timeline of Sachi’s trip. Just thought we’d clear that one up!

By: HMHB

HMHB — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:54:13 +0000

Interesting article, published May 2008 and Cyclone has been closed for more than two years.

Hmmmm.

HMHB

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:08:40 +0000

Not sure how this story did not garner any responses. All I can say after reading it is “wow.” Unbelievable story you have there of your time in Dubai. You’re luck to have a very slick friend with the whole memory card deal.