restaurants did brisk business
In every country in the region except Lebanon, Israel and Turkey, pornography is illegal. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist. International satellite channels and the internet pipe it into people’s homes, though many governments try to block obscene websites. Police, not having to grapple with daily bombings as in Baghdad, have more time to
right keep it off the streets.
After 2003, it appeared freely on Baghdad’s sidewalks – a sign of how all rules were suddenly sidelined with the toppling of Saddam, who strictly forbade such entertainment.Gone were the all-seeing security services that brutally ensured law and order. In their place came a degree of short-lived jubilation and hope about the new Iraq.
For a few months after the invasion, restaurants did brisk business, nightclubs pulsated with the beat of Arabic music. And with the Western troops, and their support army of foreign security contractors, came the pornography.
Children touted it in the Green Zone, the fortified Baghdad district where the Iraqi government and the US Embassy are housed. Vendors sold it outside hotels where international media were based. “Girls of the Interior Ministry” was the title one jokester put on
right a collection. The postwar hard-core boom was short-lived.
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