Furtado Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? This time the setting is urban, middle-class Egypt. What is a Prostitute?
I was sitting with Malak, a belly dancer, and we were eyeing up a young woman who had large oval eyes thickly lined with black kohl and a wide mouth painted salmon.. Lina looked over and agreed with Ayman. Ayman just shrugged, but Lina made an attempt. Third of all, your clothes are more decent—you cover up more than they do.
Look, you can see her bra underneath the arm-holes. And the hem keeps turning up and showing her slip. This woman is well known for being very wealthy and loose. Her father died and she inherited a lot of money and she has her own apartment and she has sexual relationships with men just for pleasure.
A respectable woman does not live alone. Eventually I realized that the reason I was struggling to understand the concept of a prostitute had everything to do with my own preconceptions about sex and money. I thought of prostitutes as women who had sex for money.
Married men usually gave their wives stipends, even if the wives had their own jobs. In short, it was not the injection of money into a sexual relationship that defined it as prostitution.
