I posted on Cairo Scholars and on a few Facebook groups but didn't really have much luck. So I decided to give Craig’s list a go....
Well the replies were many and some were normal and legitimate but there were also a lot of weird, weird replies; one guy offered to pay me 200 le to allow him to massage me and if my landlady was up for it, he would like to massage her too. Another guy, who seemed normal at first sent a mail saying his girlfriend needed a room, I told him she is welcome to come and take a look. He called me and said that she was in Italy and would I mind having a few Eastern European girls to stay?? Do I have to even comment on that?
A Dr Waleed wrote and assured me he would be polite and well behaved, he also promised me that we would have "good times" together and that he would make me pleased (language barrier?)
All of this made me think, "Well, what kind of people use Craig’s list in Cairo?" so I took a deeper look......
I started off with the community pages and was pleased to see a few legitimate sounding ads, a kitten that needs to be adopted and a driver offering his services for 30 le an hour, so far so good. Ahem then I stumbled upon the first shady listing titled " Help everyone become free of oppression" this was a listing urging people to boycott all Israeli businesses and goods as this would miraculously cause them to withdraw from the West bank, seemingly leading to an oppression free world!. Shady yes, shocking not really, and so I went on. Next up was truly shocking, the listing title: " A son for Adoption" the listing itself : " As the title of the ad says: A Son for Adoption Thanks for everything". Really! People are using Craig’s list to donate/sell their children? This one led me to a real "where the hell am I" moment! And as I really couldn't believe it, I went ahead and emailed the poster asking for more information, haven't yet received a reply but will keep you posted. I went on and sifted through a lot of work from home and earn $$$$ type ads which I am sure are not exclusive to the Cairo branch but are still dodgy in their own way.
I moved on to personals, well Egypt is a conservative place right? There couldn't be anything too shocking here for sure..... first up was strictly platonic where I found offers of toe licking and requests for rimming from a 70 year old 300 lb heavy weight (is that for real???) and then there was the request from a FAMOUS author (yes he really capitalized the word) he wanted friends and was very proud of the fact that he already knew so many important, famous (not capitalized this time) and wealthy people. Ufff next is women seek women and no listings!!! What! No lesbians in Cairo???? Ok next, on to women looking for men, this is actually quite tame just one listing offering a relationship for the financial compensation of 5000le a month which might be a good deal for the Saudi men coming over and looking for partnership. So now it's time for men seeking women, well when I think of the way men act in this country I feel this is going to be the worse section by far, I held my breath and took a look, and was actually pleasantly surprised, most of the ads here were decent and seemed genuine. There were a lot of lonely and looking for love types, the odd foot fetish, and one guy wrote a wonderful piece on how he wanted an intelligent but submissive women. Next was men looking for men.....there were only 3 ads in this section (I imagine Egyptian homosexuals are more cautious then to advertise on Craig’s list). Now where the real "fun" starts is the "Casual encounters" section, the listings and indeed pictures on offer there made me blush!!! I am not going to go any further with this, not because I am disgusted (actually I find it funny), but because I feel if you are interested then you should go and take your own plunge into the dark side....
Just to conclude, I haven’t checked it out, but a friend tells me that London's Craig’s list is just as bad, although I am pretty sure there are no children for sale there, maybe just a lot of freshly looted goods :D
Ok people I am signing off, Ramadan Kareem and all of that.
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