[Cicero]

Before the discovery of oil and the transformation of the Middle East after the Second World War and decolonization, the Arab countries were a kind of Mecca (if you'll pardon the expression) for European homosexuals.

Paul Bowles is the most famous of these homosexual expatriates, but there are numerous other cases, including apparently Lawrence of Arabia.

Here's Paul Bowles:

[SkyPilot]

Paul doesn't look too good in that photo.

In most every sense of logical comparison we see that homosexuality is really a compulsion like alcoholism.

[Ptarmigan]

That's interesting. I know many Nazis and Nazis collaborators fled to the Middle East.

[ninonitti]

Paul Bowles is the most famous of these homosexual expatriates, but there are numerous other cases, including apparently Lawrence of Arabia

William S. Burroughs spent alot of time in Tangiers along with Alan Ginsberg - early sex tourists....homo sex has always been big the Arabic world

[benjaminjjones]

RE: Paul Bowles picture:

Thanks when he was eighteen, right?