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In Egypt, "Prostitute" Is a Slippery Term

By L.L. Wynn, American Sexuality Magazine. Posted June 26, 2008.


In Egypt the label "prostitute" is often applied to women who defy traditional social and sexual codes of conduct.
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Lisa L. Wynn is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She spent over three years living in Egypt doing research for her 2007 book, Pyramids and Nightclubs: A Travel Ethnography of Arab and Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis to Rumors of Sex Orgies, Urban Legends about a Marauding Prince, and Blonde Belly Dancers.

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