Saturday, May 30, 2009

Arabic Sex Stories

First thing to notice about them is, there aren't that many! In fact I have personally tried to find some (and keep in mind, there is probably an endless influx of English ones) and found none but a few. However, they tend to always follow the same formula.

In your typical Arabic sex story, there is always a person who tries "infidility" once (once here could mean literally once, or with a single partner). Shortly after everything explodes, if it's a guy then (in most examples) he gets infected with HIV or if it's a girl then she either gets pregnant or is asked for in marriage, thus freaking out over the imminent discovery of her lost virginity.

It's really laughable, because it shows that the people who write these stories in reality intend to demonstrate the oh-my-god-what-a-disasterous-outcome effect of committing "fornication". Which is all fine and dandy except that in real life things don't come so nicely cut-and-dry. People usually get away with this stuff or at least do so for long enough that they become trapped into it long before something "breaks". This formula for writing a story only works in a kids' "moral story". The dilemma - however - is that a sex story's audience is a mature one and as such, will only laugh at the simplistic "hero sins and has to pay for it" mentality.

The other thing that pisses me (and other readers am sure... lol) off is that they do so under the pretense that this is a sex story. In other words, they "lure" you into reading their crap with the promise of sexual content (much like all the similar tricks on YouTube) except that in order to succeed in persuading someone to see things from your point of view, you can't start by pissing them off!

I think it's time that I think about writing proper Arabic sex stories, and do us all a favor :p