The problem posed here is perhaps triple.

First, there is the legitimacy of the tourism industry. Tourism is not going to develop well in the still conservative (socially speaking) if flexible (the conservatism being far removed from the blood-tribal conservatism of the Gulf and the Levant) Moroccan and even Tunisian societies, if it is gets a reputation of driving indecency among the local women. Indecency among the local men is vaguely tolerable, if not particularly liked (except among the indecent of course).

Second, there is the impact on politics and the strength of the Ikhouane, the Islamists. Porn scandals fairly play into their propaganda, and frankly the response of that narrow little group of liberals or quasi liberals here is so divorced from what society at large understands as to be laughable.

Third, there is the question of the role it plays in damaging women's rights generally, for if your average person comes to feel that women's rights in terms of work etc. is merely playing into the hands of the sexual exploiters (and that is something one hears more and more I feel), then women's rights lose.

I have no further comments for the moment, raising some issues I hope to come back to.

Oh, I forgot to mention my tres chic shopping complex. I realised, in the process of shuttling back and forth shopping for various and sundry items that there is a prostitution scene there. It was... intriguing. Fairly high class, actually, in terms of offer.

Well, still Khaliji season.