Well Said, All True

Submitted by Jordana (United States), Jun 7, 2016 at 04:28

Nicely said, and sadly all true too. I don't mean to infer that these women deserve any of this-but I am a woman and I can see the red flags and would protect myself and any woman I see from any future victimization with my advice if I can. I have been told from my own brothers and husband that they have known many friends from college (many Egyptians from smaller villages and poorer districts of Cairo attend the schools for higher ed) and in the military (my husband is a high ranking special forces officer) stories of them meeting western woman in sharm el sheikh of hurghada and having their way and their friends too with these older divorced women with children etc. there is never any respect even given to them from a physical attraction and sexual sense as they are more than willing to share this woman with their friends and to discuss intimate details and admit accepting gifts etc. from her (they aren't bankrolling this women or even offering to pay for sexual service-not that that would improve anything but it is a testament to what they think of a western woman's worth) my husband refused to go to bed with a Russian divorcee that his coworker was offering to share as he (as sexually frustrates and hormonal as he is) simply was too pious of a Muslim coupled with disgust for the potential experience of an easily convinced woman. My husband was raised to believe that is not acceptable and to resist temptation so it's entirely possible to find good, physically attractive and not completely inexperienced men anywhere in the world, it's just that they are normally looking for a woman who is exactly the same as them in sexual experience physical appearance and plans for the future.

They aren't typically looking for their queen to take to their families at the four star hotels in Tourist hubs, foreign women on a brief vacation, or in a singles chat room or in a random online encounter (I met my husband via my humanitarian aid fundraising and my Facebook page for that, he had a FB page for fitness/bodybuilding in Cairo and we crossed paths and neither of us had plans even once we met to be romantic-we were best friends for much time before he expressed his desire to marry me) many of the rules. Apply to western men as well as u said but some rules are entirely opposite and need to be regarded with all seriousness

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