Sex (money) and the City!
If the famous television series (from which I am a fanatic follower) "Sex and the City" happened to be inspired in Cairo, instead of my beloved New York, the title and subject of the whole series would have to be adapted to this odd egyptian reality.
Sex and the City would not fit reality. Sex would have to be added to the mix and not in a good, healthy, relaxed, sexy way but in a dark, depravated and ignorant mode.
Money, money, money *and Sex!!! This seems to be the silent (or not so...) motto of most egyptians nowadays. Sure there are a few exceptions and those make up for the massive repressed people who are starved for money and sex, not even knowing there are other VALUES in life that are worth following.
Most egyptians search for relationships in order to receive sex (as empty as a Barbie s head) and/or money. Nothing else seems to be in the menu and that s how I can so easily see potential human beings transformed into machines with no heart, consciousness or soul.
In a society where poverty, corruption, social injustice and prostitution at every level have become a regular, non questioned way of life, it s just natural that most people are desperate for money and use other people for the sake of it.
In the same society where sex is a tabu and relations between men and women are still on a Medieval inspired setting, it is also understandable that most people go crazy due to the absence (and condemnation) of sex.
Due to economical difficulties, most egyptians marry later than any of the the previous generations and their freedom to fall in love is very limited or none so FEELINGS are foreigners, dangerous ones...something to crash and throw in the garbage before it corrupts the rotten order past generations have built, entering loveless marriages where cheating and empty sex is in the order of the day.
As a working dancer in Cairo, I find it frightening how much men (and women, but not so openly) crave for sex like wild animals in heat. It is SCARY!
Money and sex, those are the current egyptian GODS that most people seem to follow. I wounder whatever happened to people s HEART and SOUL???
Ah, and brains...where did those go?!
If the famous television series (from which I am a fanatic follower) "Sex and the City" happened to be inspired in Cairo, instead of my beloved New York, the title and subject of the whole series would have to be adapted to this odd egyptian reality.
Sex and the City would not fit reality. Sex would have to be added to the mix and not in a good, healthy, relaxed, sexy way but in a dark, depravated and ignorant mode.
Money, money, money *and Sex!!! This seems to be the silent (or not so...) motto of most egyptians nowadays. Sure there are a few exceptions and those make up for the massive repressed people who are starved for money and sex, not even knowing there are other VALUES in life that are worth following.
Most egyptians search for relationships in order to receive sex (as empty as a Barbie s head) and/or money. Nothing else seems to be in the menu and that s how I can so easily see potential human beings transformed into machines with no heart, consciousness or soul.
In a society where poverty, corruption, social injustice and prostitution at every level have become a regular, non questioned way of life, it s just natural that most people are desperate for money and use other people for the sake of it.
In the same society where sex is a tabu and relations between men and women are still on a Medieval inspired setting, it is also understandable that most people go crazy due to the absence (and condemnation) of sex.
Due to economical difficulties, most egyptians marry later than any of the the previous generations and their freedom to fall in love is very limited or none so FEELINGS are foreigners, dangerous ones...something to crash and throw in the garbage before it corrupts the rotten order past generations have built, entering loveless marriages where cheating and empty sex is in the order of the day.
As a working dancer in Cairo, I find it frightening how much men (and women, but not so openly) crave for sex like wild animals in heat. It is SCARY!
Money and sex, those are the current egyptian GODS that most people seem to follow. I wounder whatever happened to people s HEART and SOUL???
Ah, and brains...where did those go?!
Relationships are natural exchanges, constant dialogues and negotiations, that s for sure. But we can exchange so much more than money and sex (and how curious it is to note that both are scorpionic matters)...what about expecting an open smile from a friend.
What about exhanging hugs or waiting for a heartfelt "I love you" from your man?
What about singing together and supporting each other during difficult times?
What about not expecting anything and just enjoying each other s presence and mutual silence?
What about -me, je, I, eu, Io, jo - waking up and starting to live in this world and part of this world? I am aware of my alien quality. By God, I am. Just don t know how to be any other way.
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