Has Dubai become a coded word on the Internet for prostitution?

It's awful.

Really seedy and actually really sad.

I knew yatching was a codeword for prostitution and I know the Daily Fail hint at it a lot when some celebrities are on a yatch with an unknown businessman... I’m more wondering how these businessmen make money! Not sure about male celebrities in Dubai etc

My friends SIL is working out there as a teacher. She went a couple of years back to visit and said never again. As a woman in her 40s she was routinely ignored or treated as inferior. Her husband was treated ok but even he said he didn’t like the vibe.

I don’t follow Instagram but you have to wonder how some of these girls can afford their lifestyles. Having XXX followers won’t keep you in Mulberry and YSL handbags, clubbing every week, champagne, Botox, micro blading and lovely apartments without a regular high income. Cheques from random brands like Fit Tea won’t cut it.

@Smurfsarethefuture

Blimey I received an invite to Cannes from an organisation I work with. Its not all like that, is it? I 'm a film fanatic and was thinking of going

I used to work for one of the big festivals in Cannes and spent nearly a month there every year - it’s an amazing place during festivals, and I never saw any of this stuff (lots of parties, none of this!)

Lots of these countries are trying really hard to improve their image - like the Saudi stuff - so think that it is very possible they are being paid for PR rather than sex work. Whether it is right or not is a whole other story......

Blimey I received an invite to Cannes from an organisation I work with. Its not all like that, is it? I 'm a film fanatic and was thinking of going

They all used to go to Cannes and ‘party’ as Yacht girls. It’s moved to Dubai.

Maybe not quite as bad, but we don't exactly cover ourselves in glory when it comes to migrant workers (likewise British ones at the bottom). Beds in sheds, modern day slavery.

As for our human rights failing of the disabled.

We need to sort out our own wrong doings before pointing the finger at other places.

I hadn't heard of any of this.

There's loads of male influencers who go out there too.

I assumed influencers were paid to promote tourism there? Unless - are the male influencers prostitutes too?

Years ago I was asked to go out to Dubai to party. I turned it down because don't get me wrong the money was life changing but some girls go over there and don't come home. I was maybe 19? The money would of been easily maybe 15 grand for two nights of shagging blokes but who wants to do that?. I don't know what happened to the guy who asked me but I stalked the other girls he asked Instagrams for a whilst and they were living it up.

Bloody hell, I just googled Some of the videos are unbelievable. I can't see how they could be faked.

It's not Dubai so much, but more the influencer lifestyle. Yes, there are lots of influencers who do sex work. They are flown all over the world, lovely locations, parties, lots of nice photos, but they are basically 'party girls' as in women hired by rich men to attend parties and they are expected to make themselves available to guests. It's not specific to Dubai though and happens everywhere, including in the UK. It's how many of them afford to have the lifestyle that they do. It's nothing that women haven't been doing for ages, but now it's just more present and visible on social media.

Horrible place, the way migrant workers are treated is gross.

Oops DeathGrip got there before me.

Should have guessed by the name 🙈.

Dubai is actually surprisingly affordable and the prices went down spectacularly during the pandemic. So that's why lots of wannabe Instagram influencers/models flocked over there because they could show off the jet-set lifestyle on social media for a fraction of what people assume it cost. Apparently 4-5 star hotels were available for $100 or so per night.

I know someone, not an influencer, who spends most of the year in Dubai catering to a 'niche' market and making a lot of money. She is very well known in this particular brand of 'prostitution'.
I think the sex/sugar daddy/escorting market is by far the most lucrative than any other country in the world at the moment.
When you think of the strict laws there it is rather strange but then the men making the laws are most likely the punters!

Dubai is definitely the new yachting. That Tag The Sponsor site is just abhorrent though. Yet again it’s the women who are ‘shamed’ rather than the disgusting individuals who pay them.

Yep, anytime I see a 'celeb' (usually reality tv) in Dubai, there's a high chance they're 'yachting'

A good friend of mine from years ago used to work as a hostess in Tokyo. She was very beautiful. After she’d left she had a few similar stories, including how some rich men would ask the women who was willing to shit on a glass table, with the man watching from under the table.

That “Tag the sponsor” website is fucking horrible - lots of men “exposing the hoes”, you know those women who are just agreeing to what men are asking them to do. Utterly disgusting men the lot of them.

Whether any of it is legit, or just men pranking women desperate for money into agreeing to the worst stuff they can think of, is unclear.