http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3706289/

Fifteen minutes for a buck and a half?

So who among us is intrepid enough to go there and report back?

$1.50 short time. Cool!!! I'm there dude!!!! It even has instructions to get there.

"Abu Abdullah's, just off Sadoun Street in an alley with a number instead of a name. At Abu Abdullah's, $1.50 buys 15 minutes alone with a woman. The room is a cell with only a curtain for a door, and Ali complains that Abu Abdullah's women should bathe more often."

Unbathed women don't scare me.

I heard KLM airlines will have scheduled airline service to Baghdad. War has always been caused mongering scenes to thrive. Cambodia was way to tame by the time I got there though. You need to get in not to long after the war. I wonder if Kosovo is still thriving these days.

With US$87 billion you can fuck 58 billion times.

Just what the wives and girlfriends back home need to read....he he he. Bet there is a new clamor for the service men to return home now!

Sandman

Sex in wartime

I remember SE Asia in 1972, I was not in the US Armed Forces, but just a student. I visited the Philipines, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Thailand, as well as some other countries. It was my first "overseas" mongering experience, and it spoiled me forever. As HK and the Philipines were R&R areas for the armed services of several allied countries, the number of girls there was astronomical, and the costs were about $5-10 for overnight and about $3-5 for short time.

However "in theater" it seemed that the prices were much more. In Saigon, the girls in some of the clubs charges as much as $15 if you were an american. The off-limit clubs were better, a frenchman who I met introduced me to some clubs that GI's were not allowed to frequent. ( Iwas asked more than a few times for my ID by zealous MP's and Viet Police near those clubs) These clubs had outstanding beautiful Eurasians and were about $5-10 short time.

Thailand was better, but not like it is today. The sex industry was a lot larger and underage sex was quite rampant. I was 17-18 at that time, and I constantly met,( but didn't date) 14,15,16 y.o. I didn't date then only because I had limited funds that had to last me another few months, and not because of any qualms about the ages. But a shag for about a buck is not to be denied.

Towards the end of the Vietnam war, american servicemen frequented less and less, most areas of Saigon. The threat of bombings was there, but it seemed like the Vietnamese knew the americans were close to being fed up and leaving, and although civilian casualties were not considered, the fact that bombings of cafes and GI hangouts dropped off considerably, really was meant to encourage the GI's to leave, rather than to target them.

But those were more liberal days, as far as the R&R 's went. I supposed you were in just as much peril then as you are now in Bagdad.

But at least you could go out and get a good shag for the cost of a haircut.

With the current trend in puritan morality pushed by the administration and the armed services closely monitoring the extra-curicular activities of soldiers on leave. Getting a shag in Bagdad is probably not going to happen, at least on any appreciable scale.

The demand for sex is always high in wartime, but the supply is not always the same. In vietnam we had a culture that assesed no shame in sex, an economy that absolutly needed foreign currency, a cost of living that was very low and a huge demand with willing providers.

As the foreign civilians allowed into Iraq are controlled by the US, that has expressed a willingness to surpress any travel for sex , the dominant muslim religion which punishes women for even dressing improperly and control the mores of the country, the chances of having a viable sex-industry in Iraq are nil.


$1.50 probably seems right.

OG

I think we should put together a fund and offer a reward to the first person that comes back from Baghdad with a trip report (and pics!).