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I think it's interesting that Egyptian dancers are getting more and more overtly transgressive in the face of increasingly restrictive attitudes towards sexuality. You have the dancers who wear super-scanty costumes that definitely break all laws, and the men, like Tito, who are performing definite BD in the public arena. It almost looks like a red rag to a bull in a way.

When you think about successful *foreign* dancers, they're very conservative - Nour's costumes are extremely modest and Caroline Evanoff, whose costumes are also not very revealing of flesh, was telling us all about the pages and pages of stuff she had to comply with. I guess the top local girls can potentially get away with more because they know the right people, have mad bribery skills, understand the subtleties of doing business in Egypt in the way a foreigner might not be able to negotiate, etc.